Beinecke MS 153                                           Netherlands, s. XV/XVI
Ritual (in Dutch)

     1. ff. 1r-50r    Vp onser vrauwen lichtmesse dach Ter processien.
     Eerst zo seit de priester dominus vobis etc. Onder wijst bidden wy
     heere hu volc en dwel ke ghy vutwendelic gheest...sekerer vryht
     mach dienen Ouer.

     2. ff. 50r-97v    Vp den palmsondach. Matheus. In dien tiden Seide
     ihesus zinen iongheren Ghi...[includes Matthew 26.1-27. 66, Mark
     14.1-15.46, Luke 22.1-23. 53, and John 18.1-19. 42] graf daer bij
     was so hebben zijt daer gheleidt. Deo gracias. ff. 88r-89v,
     between the selections from Luke and John, blank

     3. ff. 98r-150r    Van der cleedinghe der susteren Eerst zuntmen
     veni creator. Comt scepper gheest visentere dine dienaers
     inwendicheit uervulle met hemelscher gracien...gheeste. Requiescat
     in. Dy moeten rusten in vrede Amen.

     4. ff. 150r-153v    Hier volghen marien .vij. ween. O Ghebendide
     maghet maria moeder gods almachtich Ic biddu duer dat nee en
     droufheit...en moet werden maer tot uwen gheselscepe moet commen.
     Amen.

     5. ff. 154r-231v    Psalter with prologue and prayers. Hier
     volghet een zuuerlic bouxkin gheheeten marien sauter prologus.
     Hier beghint onser lieuer vrawen sauter der saligher maghet marien
     der moder ons heeren..; (f. 154v) Eermen den sauter beghint
     oratio. Heere doet vp minen mont te louene dinen alder
     helichsten...; (f. 155r) Oracien tot marien. O coninghinne des
     hemels ontfanghe den lof zanck die ic dy met ghetrauwer herte...;
     (f. 156v) Pater noster Aue maria Ps. j. Salich es die ghene die
     dinen name lief hebben...[includes Psalms 1-150]; (f. 231r) Pater
     Offerande. O hemelsche coninghinne maria ontfanct goedertierlic
     desen sauter...bystandicht inde huere mijnder doot Amen.

     6. ff. 231v-244v    Hier volghen die cantiken vander saligher
     maghet marien. Ic sal dy belyden ower de vrawe. Want duer hu es de
     heere...enn vaste ghelooue die en mach niet salich werden.

     7. ff. 244v-250v    De letanyen. Heere ontfaermt dy onsere Christe
     ontfaermt dy...[invokes Father, Son, Trinity, and the Virgin Mary
     by various names]...commende quade periculen Ouer. Hier hendt det
     sauterkin der glorioser maghet marien.

     8. ff. 250v-251r    Een offerande vp den souter van marien. O
     hemelsche coninghinne maria ontfanct goedertierlic desen souter
     die ic dy offere...enn bystandicheit in die huere mijnder doot.
     Amen.

     9. ff. 251r-269r    Hier beghint een deuote oufeninghe ten .vij.
     ghetijden van dat medeliden der glorioser maghet marien ghemaect
     by sente bonauentura. Vp de passie christi. Te mattenenen. Heere
     ghy sult open doen mine leppen Enn minen mont sal boodschepen dijn
     lof. God zijt gheneghen [3 lessons at Matins]...ontfaermherticheit
     gods mocten rusten in vreden Amen. Hier hendt date beleedt Der
     compassien van marien.

     10. ff. 269r-272v    De paus innocencius de vierde gheuet den
     ghenen die dese aue marien enn dese woorden spreken alle daghe
     [rubric gives 6666 days of indulgence]...Ovlietende borne der
     eeuwicheit Hoe bestu dus versleghen...[Meertens 6.293]; (f. 269v)
     Men vint bescreuen det onse lieue vrauwe drie waerf riep doen ons
     lieue heere zijn cruce drouch Ten eersten riep zij. O wee eenighe
     gheboren zone troost kijn eenighe moedere...; (f. 269v) Die dese
     .v. aue marien daghlijcx leest met aendachte die weet in zinen
     drucghe troost ooc waert een nonne diese daghelics las vander
     pinen der hellen en des vagheiuer verlost. O coninghinne der
     hemelen en vrawe der inghelen. Ic die ellendich en bedrucht...;
     (f. 270v) Aue. Ter eeren van .x. sonderlinghe preuilegie enn
     duegden van maria suldi lesen .x. Aue marien daer Alexander die
     seste paus groote...Deerste prudencia. Weest ghegroedt O alder
     wijste enn daerste moeder...[Sections also devoted to humilitas,
     castitas, charitas, Graciarum actionis, obediencia, paciencia,
     paupertas, fides, martirium]; (f. 272v) Een buelinghe voor eenen
     goeden mensche om smorghens voor alle dijnc te ouffenen Oratio. O
     alder helischste maria moeder gods moeder ons liefs heeren Ic
     beuele heden uwer moedeliker herten...euenmensche ende ter
     salicheit van mijnder ziele. Amen.

          Paper, ff. iii (paper) + 272 (unidentified watermarks in
     gutter, upper margin, trimmed; including, on ff. 90-98 [quire XII]
     an unidentified hand) + ii (paper), 139 x 100 (97 x 69) mm.
     Written in ca. 20 long lines, frame-ruled in lead. Remains of
     prickings in upper, lower and outer margins.
          I-VI^^8, VII^^8 (-7, cut out after f. 54), VIII^^8, IX^^10,
     X-XIX^^8, XX^^8 (-6, after f. 152), XXI-XXXIV^^8.
          Written by three people in what Lieftinck calls Littera
     brevitura (cf. Maatschappij, pl. VI. b). Scribe 1, ff. 1r-87v and
     98r-153v, writes in a large and rather careless hand; 2, ff. 90r-
     97v, in a small even hand; 3, ff. 154r-272v, in a large uneven
     hand.
          Calligraphic initials, 5- to 3-line, in green or red with red
     or grey flourishes, often extending the length of the written
     area. Initials, 3- to 1-line, underlining, strokes on 1-line
     initials, and headings in red.
          Binding: s. xvi. Original sewing on three double, tawed
     supports laced into the wooden boards. The spine is heavily
     rounded, with the sewing supports well defined by blind-tooled
     lines. Covered in dark brown calf with a panel of the Annunciation
     (similar to J. B. Oldham, Blind Panels of English Binders
     [Cambridge, 1958], pl. XI, BIB. 5), in a border of birds, animals
     and flowers blind-stamped on each board inside outer frames of
     lines. There is a brass catch on the upper board and a long, thin
     brass clasp on a leather strap attached to the lower with a brass
     plate. The leather is slightly torn at the head of the spine but
     otherwise the book is in fine condition, with no trace of
     sophistication. Front and back pastedowns from a 15th-century
     Latin liturgical manuscript.

          Written in the Netherlands in the late 15th or early 16th
     century, possibly for a nunnery (see art. 3). Signature of M. De
     Laudegum [?] (in a cursive hand of the 16th or 17th century, on
     the first flyleaf), along with the words "les 4 euangille et les 7
     douler". Belonged to Edward Gordon-Duff; sold by Sotheby's (16
     March 1925, no. 106) to H. Stevens. Signature of William L.
     Clements of Bay City, Michigan (first flyleaf; described as his
     property in De Ricci). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1942.

     secundo folio: [woen]sten noch

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1132, no. 7. Faye and Bond, p.
     36, no. 153.
          P. E. Webber, "The Need for a Closer Description of the
     Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in American Libraries: Specific
     Cases in Point," Archives et Bibliotheques de Belgique 46 (1975)
     p. 285.

     Barbara A. Shailor