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Document Details : Title: Bidden met compassie Subtitle: De 'invlechting' van een reeks Mariagebeden in de Getijden van het Heilig Kruis Author(s): DE JONG, Susanne Journal: Ons Geestelijk Erf Volume: 95 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2025 Pages: 91-147 DOI: 10.2143/OGE.95.1.3295157 Abstract : In several Books of Hours in the Middle Dutch translation ascribed to Geert Grote, both the Long and Short Hours of the Holy Cross – which are considered to be among the ‘standard’ texts of the Book of Hours – are combined with a series of prayers to Mary. This prayer cycle to Mary also circulated separately, as an individual text. When combined with the Hours of the Holy Cross, the collect (concluding prayer) of each different hour is followed by a prayer to Mary, focusing on her suffering and compassion during the events preceding and during Christ’s crucifixion. By combining the prayers to Mary with the Hours of the Holy Cross, Mary’s perspective on the events of Christ’s Passion was included, thus encouraging an affective involvement of the reader in the meditation of the Passion narrative. This contribution offers a detailed analysis of the Hours of the Holy Cross and the ‘interwoven’ prayer cycle to Mary and explores how this text functioned in the devotional practices of the late medieval reader. |
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