A Dutch Prayer Book with the Hours of Geert Grote from the University Library of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (BU KUL, Lublin, Ms. 2626)
A Dutch Prayer Book with the Hours of Geert Grote from the University Library of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (BU KUL, Lublin, Ms. 2626)

Summary/Abstract: This article presents new research on a Dutch prayer book from the collections of the University Library of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (BU KUL, Lublin, Ms. 2626). This codex, which transmits devotional texts in a translation by Geert Grote, a pioneer of the Modern Devotion movement, especially the Small Office of the Virgin Mary and the Middle Dutch adaptation of Heinrich Suso’s Hundert Betrachtungen und Begehrungen, offers valuable evidence of literary and religious culture in the late-medieval Netherlands. The article begins with a codicological description, followed by a preliminary analysis of the artistic program of the manuscript, a description of the structure of the codex and the identification of the most important texts. Textual evidence indicates that the codex most probably originated from the diocese of Utrecht.

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