Unrecorded Dutch (post?) incunable edition, together with an interesting Dutch devotional manuscript BOEXKEN van goeder devocien (Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse; Die ix couden die onse lieve heer geleden heeft; Die seven banden.

      (Leiden, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden, after May 1498). 8vo. Modern mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, g.e. Rubricated and underlined in red throughout, some initials with penwork (2-3 lines) in blue and red; with full-page woodcut of Christ with the instruments of the passion on the title and 6 (out of 9) full-page (one a bit smaller) woodcuts in 'Die.ix. couden' (f. 14v-31v) and one - a Crucifixion - on f. 63v at the beginning of 'Vanden ghescoerden oliven boem'. All woodcuts but the last one are coloured by a strictly contemporary hand. 74 (out of 80) lvs. 20 lines on a page. MANUSCRIPT.- SEVEN PSALMS AND PRAYERS. Netherlands, ca. 1500. 8vo. 85 lvs, (118x85mm.); one column; 20 lines per page; rubricated throughout, lombards (1-2 lines) and titles in red (the four initials of 2-4 lines not executed). : Hybrida libraria in a good and very well readable hand: the script of the Modern Devotion. Collation: (a)6 (6), (b)10 (16), (c) -(i)8 (72), (k)12+1 (85). Ad 1: Unrecorded edition of this Dutch devotional book containing among other texts and prayers, the texts of the "Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse", "Die.ix. couden die onse here ihesus christus leet", and "Die seven banden". There are several editions of this text, listed by Nijhoff/Kronenberg under Boecxken (Boeck) van (go(e)der) devocien or Couden, Die negen, published in Leiden, Delft, Utrecht and Antwerp between c. 1501 and 1539.The text is closest to NK 4317 (Antwerp, Adr. van Berghen, 1506), but the blocks are those originally used by Hugo Jansz. van Woerden in an edition of the Leven Ons Heren (Leiden, 1498; CA 1111, IDL 2943). The series, containing 50 blocks, is Conway, 30.1.1-50. Two of these blocks are illustrated in Nijhoff's L'Art Typographique under 'Amsterdam, Hugo Jansz. van Woerden', nrs 4 and 5, as used in his edition of Dat Lijden ons liefs heren Ihesu Christi (Amsterdam, ca. 1510?; NK 1372). The blocks used by Henric Pietersz. Lettersnijder in his edition of Die negen couden (Delft 1511; NK 624), as illustrated in Nijhoff's L'Art Typ. are very close, but not the same (Plate II, nrs. 6 and 7).Possibly our edition is published therefore by Herman Jansz. van Woerden after May 1498. This is the more probably as this printer published many devotional books of the same kind. Herman Jansz. was active in Leiden from 1494 - ca. 1506, in Haarlem in 1506 and in Amsterdam, 1506 - ca. 1514, so as the place of printing both cities, Leiden or Amsterdam (or Haarlem), are possible.As the text of the edition by Jan Severs (Leiden, no date; NK 438) is also more or less the same as the text in our edition, it could also be possible that Jan Severs is the printer of our edition. Jan Severs was active in Leiden from ca. 1501 till ca. 1520. As the printers in Antwerp have used different woodcut blocks to illustrate this texts, it is very probable that our edition is printed in the Northern, and not in the Southern Netherlands.Collation: [a]8-2 (f. 2/7 missing; f. 1-6), b8 (f. 7-14), c8-2 (f. 4/5 (between 17/18) missing; f. 15-20), d8-1 (f. 3 (between 22/23 missing; f. 21-27), e-i8 (f. 28-67), k8-1 (last blank missing; f. 68-74). 20 lines to a page.Contents:f. 1r: Dit is dat boexken van goeder devocien. | Ende een oeffeninghe, hoemen god bidden | sal. ende om sijn passie te ouerdencken. [houtsnede (full page) of Christ with the instruments of the passion]f. 1v: Inc.: Item dit is een suuerlic boecxken. | van sonderlingher schoenre oeffenin|ghe der ghebenedider passien ons lie|ves heeren ihesu cristi. So is hier ten | eersten een schone oeffeninghe vanden | heilighen cruce Item ten anderen van negender | leye couden die onsen lieven here geleden heeft f. 2r - f. 14v: [begin ontbreekt: Oeffeninghe van den heiligen cruse.]f. 14v-31v: Die.ix couden die onse here ihesus christus leet.- f. 14v: Item hier beghinnen die.ix. couden die onse here ihsus xristus leet - f. 31v: Expl.: Hier enden dei.ix. couden. Ende hier na so volghen die seuen banden.f. 32r - 48r: Die seven banden.- f. 32r: Soe wie ghebon