Script and Textual Contents
Description and Contents
The manuscript is written in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textualis). Captions in Old French are inscribed on the architectural frames of the miniatures.
fol. 3r/p. 2 Alphabet (ABC)
fols. 3r-3v/pp. 2-3 Our Father
fols. 3v-4r/pp. 3-4 Hail Mary
fols. 4r-5r/pp. 4-6 Apostles’ Creed
fols. 5r-6v/pp. 6-9 Grace at Mealtimes
fols. 6v-7v/pp. 9-11 Act of Confession, beginning, Misereatur nostri omnipote[n]s deus
fols. 7v-8r/pp. 11-12 Prayer for Mass, beginning, Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus
fols. 8r-8v/pp. 12-13 Prayer for Mass, beginning, Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi
fol. 8v/p. 13 Prayer for Mass, beginning, In manus tuas domine co[m]mendo
Seth planting seeds in Adam’s grave; Souls in Limbo; Debate in Parliament of Heaven
These legendary episodes derive from Arnoul Gréban’s Mystère de la Passion, a religious play performed in Paris in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The Parliament of Heaven is represented by God encircled by female personifications of Justice, Peace, Mercy, and Truth. Addressing God, Justice and Truth argue that Adam and Eve should be punished, in contrast to Peace and Mercy who ask him to be lenient.