Part 1: ff. 1-25

Description: - Parchment - 150 x 105 mm - 19 lines, ruled in ink.

Country: Netherlands (now Ger

Region: Cleves

Assigned Date: s. XV2/4 (?)

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Figurative Decoration: 81 miniatures decorated with gold in margins; 2 historiated initials with gold decoration.

Other Decoration: 1 large gold initial on painted, white-patterned ground of blue and purple; 2 large strapwork initials in blue on squared grounds of red penwork with gold decoration; 1-line initials within text in alternating red and blue.




Text 1: ff. 1-25v

Title: Devotional exercises on the life of Christ for the seven days of the week

Language(s): East Middle Dutch

Incipit: Die daer in den beginne ghescapen heeft hemel ende eerde ende dat meer ende alle dat daer in is om te verclaren die ontspeekelike goetheit synre goeder nerenheit Amen Ave Maria

Status of text: Devotion for Friday unfinished.

Image 1: f. 1 Miniature: Creation of the World, Adam and Eve; coat of arms.

Image 2: f. 2 Floreate border.

Image 3: f. 5 Historiated initial, Annunciation.

Image 4: f. 9 Strapwork initial; miniature, Presentation in the Temple.

Image 5: f. 14 Strapwork initial; miniature, Jesus preaching.

Image 6: ff. 18v-19 Gold initial; miniature, Mount of Olives, Gethsemani.

Image 7: ff. 19v-20 Miniature: Jesus before Annas and Caiaphas; Mocking of Jesus

Image 8: f. 24 Historiated initial, Crucifixion.