[Christliche andechtige Hertzenftzerlein zu Gott ehe man betet, mit enrnst vnnd in wahrem Glauben täglich zubetracten].

Accession number: 
MS W.33
Title: 
[Christliche andechtige Hertzenftzerlein zu Gott ehe man betet, mit enrnst vnnd in wahrem Glauben täglich zubetracten].
Created: 
[16--]
Credit: 
Bequest; Julia Parker Wightman; 1994.
Description: 
79 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 89 x 86 mm.
Provenance: 
Henry Huth; Alfred H. Huth; his sale (London, Sotheby's, June 1912, 10th day sale, lot 1572); purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1978; JPW 8492; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes: 

Ms. devotional texts and prayers; written and illuminated in Germany, 17th century.
Decoration: 10 full-page miniatures, elaborately flourished penwork initials and tailpieces in brown ink. Written in Gothic script in black ink heightened with gold.
Binding: (MS cut down to present binding) 19th-century dark blue, gold-tooled morocco signed: "Bound by F. Bedford" on first flyleaf verso, lettered "Gebete" on spine, gilt edges, in marbled paper box by JPW.

Script: 
textura.
Language: 
In German;
Century: 
Classification: