Little red prayer book confessions series#

Origin: Kingdom of Mercia (now western and central England), late 8th or early 9th century. Marginal drawings of figures with pointed fingers or animals (ff. Smaller initials filled with colours and outlined with red dots. 2r) and 1 in colours with animal, animal head terminals, and interlace (f. Decoration: 2 large zoomorphic initials, 1 in gold and silver (f. 7v, 10v, 12v, 13v, 14v, 16v, 23v, 30v, 37v, 38v, 39v, 41v, 42v, 43v: collects and prayers, including several pertaining to St Benedict of Nursia. 52: charms against sleeplessness and to stop bleeding, in a 12th century hand. 50- 51: hymns in abecedarial (alphabetical) order f. 49r: a charm against bleeding with some corrupt Greek words ff. 45v: an exorcism, partly in Greek (in Latin characters), partly in Latin ff. 40v: 'Precatio ad sanctam Mariam et sanctum Petrum et ad ceteros apostolos' ff. 39: a prayer in elegiac verse, possibly lacking leaves at the beginning f. 28v: a prayer, beginning ' Domine deus omnipotens pater qui es omnium rerum creator' ff. 28: the opening clauses of the creed of S. 28: ' Hymnus angelicus', with an added Greek gloss in Latin characters f. 27: a prayer of praise, beginning ' Benedictus dominus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi' f. 25: a prayer that draws on extracts from the parables of the Prodigal Son and Pharisee and Publican f. 17r: a prayer, 'Oratio sancti Hugbaldi abbatis' ff. 'Canticum trium puerorum': the longer form of the Benedicite, Daniel iii.

13r-v: two short prayers, beginning 'Deus omnipotens et dominus noster Iesus Christus', and 'Benedicat me dominus et custodiat' f. 12r-v: an apocryphal letter of Christ to Abgar, king of Edessa f.

Little red prayer book confessions series#

In the mid- to late tenth century, a series of collects were added in the margins of the text which metion Benedict of Nursia and seem to pertain to a monastic community. Several of the prayers pertain to the body, physical ailments, or healing. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Harley MS 2965 (the Book of Nunnaminster), Harley 7653 (the Harley Prayerbook), and Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ll.1.10 (the Book of Cerne). Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. This manuscript consists of a decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels, liturgy, apocrypha, and glosses.