Accession number:
MS W.42
Title:
[Prayers and devotional texts].
Created:
1662.
Credit:
Bequest; Julia Parker Wightman; 1994.
Description:
106 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 152 x 96 mm.
Provenance:
Purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1969; JPW 6522; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes:
Ms. prayers and devotional texts; written and illuminated in Nuremberg, Germany, February-April 1662.
Scribe: Johann Müchner (signed in colophon on fol. 106v).
Decoration: 17th or 18th-century oval engraving of two clerics with rosaries pasted in on fol. 1; each separate prayer begins with floral headpiece drawn in brown ink; each text page is framed with compartmented borders of flower, fruit, and leaf motifs drawn in dark brown ink and with a solid brown background.
Binding: vellum over paper boards; in black morocco slipcase labeled: Munchner manuscrit 1662, stamped: made by Riviere & Son; made in England.
Script:
cursive.
Language:
In German;
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