DOMESTIC DEVOTION
[PRAYERBOOK.]
‘Gebetbuch’.
[Germany, early nineteenth century.]
Manuscript on paper, 8vo in 6s, pp. [50], [6 (blank)]; in German, neatly written in a single hand in dark brown ink, calligraphic title within manuscript border, titles and initials in a larger gothic script, ruled in pencil; title a little foxed, a few minor stains, small smudge to inner margin pp. [12–13], old adhesion to pp. [20–21] affecting a few characters of text; sewn, spine reinforced with (later?) brown cloth.
An attractive early nineteenth-century Catholic prayerbook in German, containing prayers for both daily use and for use during Mass.
This manuscript, likely produced domestically for personal devotional use, records a variety of prayers, beginning with morning prayer and evening prayers and including prayers for using during Mass, for before and after Communion, for Confession, of thanksgiving, as well as a general prayer, a prayer for a Godly life, and a prayer for a blessed death.