<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Ceremonial for visiting a dying nun and for the burial</dc:title><dc:date>[between 1400 and 1599].</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript, poorly organized, on paper of Ceremonial for visiting a dying nun and for the burial, which served in a bilingual female community in Belgium (probably southern Flanders), where the priest, the abbess or the prioress was French-speaking. The devotional contains various psalms, litanies, prayers, hymns, and the Athanasian Creed</dc:description><dc:description>Script: Copied by four hands: A) writing in Gothica Hybrida Libraria; B) writing in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens; C) writing in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; D) writing in a small Gothica Cursiva Currens. A) and B) are the principal hands. Musical notations are found in nota quadrata on 4-line black staves.</dc:description><dc:description>Decoration: Appears only in red: hadings, underlining, stroking of majuscules, line-fillers, 1-line versals and 1- to 2-line plain initials.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding:  Original Flemish blind-tooled brown calfskin over wooden boards, sewn on three leather thongs. Both covers have frames of triple fillets. Remnants of a brass clasp are fixed to the front board. Red leather tabs preserved. Seems to have been chained at the lower edge of the front board.</dc:description><dc:description>In Latin, French and Dutch.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>