Beinecke MS 219                                                      Germany, s. XV^^2
Das Leiden Ihesu Christi, etc.

     1. ff. 1r-63r    Hebt sich ann ein schoner passion kurczlichen das
     leiden ihesu christi darynen zw betrachten. Da zw dem erstenn
     driualtigklichen per institutionem Sacramentorum per efussionem sudorum
     per inpositionem peccatorum...vergissen nit an vns verlorn lass werden.
     Amen.

          The scribe has noted in the opening lines that "per inpositionem
     peccatorum" should be placed before "per institutionem Sacramentorum".

     2. ff. 63r-76r    Ein schone dancksagung zw vnsserm lieben heren ihesum
     christum vmb sein pytters leiden vnnd sterben vnnd plutt vergissen vnnd
     vmb sein grosse liebsprich also. O du aller liebster here ihesu christe
     ich arme Sunderin sag dir meinem hercz lieben got...Amen. pater
     noster;
     (f. 66r) O here mein got ich erman dich vnnd danck dir von ynickert
     meines herczens...Amen. pater noster; (f. 68r) O du mein aller liebster
     here Ihesu christe ich sag dir meinem got den hochsten danck...pater
     noster; (f. 71r) O mein here ihesu christe pis ermant mit herczlicher
     danckperikeit vmb den schmerczen...Amen; (f. 73r) O du aller liebster
     here ihesu christe mein erlosser vnnd hochste zw versicht ich sag dir
     lob...Amen.

          These prayers are for the use of a woman.

     3. f. 76r-v    Item ein schon gepett wie sich ein mensch mit got dem
     sun sol auffopffern got seinen himelischen vater solches gepett auch
     sanct Bernhardt hat gethan. O lieber here ihesu christe gottes Sun vnnd
     der Iunckfrawen Marie Ein warer mitler...dan dich aller menschen//

          Paper, ff. ii (paper) + i (contemporary paper flyleaf) + 76 + ii
     (paper), 150 x 108 (102 x 63) mm. Written in 17 long lines; frame-ruled
     in ink and lead with upper horizontal bounding line full across.
          The binding is too tight to permit accurate collation.
          Written in uptight informal batarde by a single scribe.
          Ordinary blue initials, 2-line, on ff. 1r and 76r, with crude
     penwork designs in red. Plain 1-line initials, paragraph marks,
     headings, and letter strokes, as well as some corrections, in red.
          Binding: s. xvi-xvii. Wooden boards, slightly cut in at the fore-
     edge for two catches on the upper cover and covered in brown calf,
     blind-tooled in a curvilinear design, are probably early. The rest of
     the stab-sewn, rebacked binding obviously is not. Upper board detached,
     fastenings wanting.

          Written probably in Southern Germany in the second half of the
     15th century; early provenance unknown. Unidentified paper tag on front
     cover "17069"; note with the contents in an unidentified hand (s. xix)
     pasted inside front cover. Purchased from Robert F. Metzdorf in 1956
     with funds from the William Lyon Phelps Memorial.

     secundo folio: die sundt

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 42, no. 219.

     Barbara A. Shailor