This inventory provides a key to the hitherto virtually uncatalogued collection of the Catharijneconvent, a museum of Christian culture. Its manuscript holdings are particularly rich in liturgy and devotion, including dozens of Books of Hours, many with fine miniatures, as well as a number of venerable older treasures, over a thousand items in all (including fragments). This book is the vol. 1 (but the second to appear) of a series of inventories of a completely novel type, giving of each ite...

In the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period people took extensive care to safeguard their own salvation and eternal remembrance, and that of their deceased relatives. Their care for the here and the hereafter is expressed in the concept of memoria, which can be defined as the complex of liturgical and social acts connecting the living and the dead. As such, memoria is much more than a religious concept. During her career dr. Truus van Bueren has become an internationally acclaimed scholar ...

Met deze uitgave van het Wiesbadense handschrift - de eerste kritische editie in de reeks Middeleeuwse Verzamelhandschriften uit de Nederlanden - wordt een even unieke als onbekende collectie Middelnederlandse geestelijke literatuur in proza en op rijm ontsloten. De omvangrijke codex in folio werd rond 1410 in een Vlaams-Brabants grensgebied vervaardigd. De kopiisten en samenstellers vormden vermoedelijk een groep van stedelijke leken die zich toelegden op een oprecht religieus leven. De tek...