• Material is open for research.
• Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence.
• Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2014 July 8, lot 48) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014.
• Layout: single column of text.
• Script: gothic.
• Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides.
• Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués.
• Arma Christi Prayer Roll.

Subjects:

• Jesus Christ -- Art.
• Jesus Christ -- Prayers and devotions.
• Jesus Christ -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
• Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
• Indulgences -- Early works to 1800.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Netherlands -- Early works to 1800.
• Drawings -- Netherlands -- 15th century.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Netherlands -- 15th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Added entries:

• Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503.
• Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484.