

Prayer Book (compilation). Ca. 1500 CE. Origin: Ghent. Language: The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. Support material: Parchment. Well-selected and prepared parchment, thin to medium weight through fol. 55, thicker thereafter; back flyleaf i is modern parchment with bifoliate facing pastedown. Foliation: i+95+bis+i

Two modern pencil foliations: one in lower left of each recto added ca. 1900; modern foliation in upper right corners rectos added in the later half of the twentieth century (used here). Dimensions: 9.9 cm wide by 15.1 cm high



This Prayer Book, ca. 1500, is a compilation of several texts from at least five different hands, with the miniatures featuring several hands as well. The illusionistic borders with exceptional motifs are of particular note. Borders towards the beginning of the book appear to be by a different artist, as later groups of borders differ in both design and color, with smaller motifs, less crowding, blossoming red carnations and lilies, and some amusing drolleries (fol. 57r-v).

