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Showing posts with label prayerbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayerbook. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Seven Times a Day: Prayer as Humane Practice

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One of the things that shows up again and again in early devotional books is instruction that feels, at first glance, almost excessive. “...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Practicing Death: The “Seven Last Words” at Thalbach

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The back-end of the Thalbach prayerbook (ÖNB Cod. 11750, 56v-60r) provides an early modern devotional adaptation of the “Seven Last Words...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

A 16thc Segen for the Mass, Pt 2

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The Thalbach Segen for the Mass The first half of this Segen – which I posted about last week – establishes its logic through enclosure...
Friday, January 9, 2026

A Sixteenth-Century Segen for the Mass, Pt 1

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A “Segen” is a prayer genre that combines words, gestures, and formulas to bring about a positive end such as divine grace, desired happine...
Monday, September 15, 2025

An indulgence prayer for Mary of Swords

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The Thalbach Prayerbook is not a tidy manuscript. It isn’t richly illuminated, and its pages don’t draw they eye with color and beauty the ...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

The Verbal Vocative: Change-Ringing Patterns of Marian Address in Der Herr ist mit dir

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Imagine a prayer that goes on and on (and on and on), praising Mary in every imaginable way – her virtues, her role in salvation, her in...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Why illustrate a prayerbook?

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Woodcuts from Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek Handschrift 17 So there she was, my scribe. She’d put all this effort into copying out all...