This small-size manuscript, probably produced in the second quarter of the fourteenth century in eastern central Germany, is here studied in depth for the first time. The manuscript is without any known parallels as regards its structure: illustrated with coloured pen-and-ink-drawings throughout, the manuscript consists of a sequence of images with German-language partial paraphrases of gospel pericopes, a festival calendar with pictorial abbreviations as well as an image cycle on the passion. As it is linked to Dominican liturgy as well as elements of folk tradition and was in use until the early sixteenth century, as later additions in the calendar section show, it is here interpreted as a meaningful document of the history of piety in the late Middle Ages.

Henrike Manuwald (* 1980) studied German Literature, English Literature and Art History at the Universität zu Köln. There she obtained her PhD in 2006, with a study entitled Medialer Dialog. Die ‚Große Bilderhandschrift‘ des Willehalm Wolframs von Eschenbach und ihre Kontexte. At the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau, where she worked as a Junior Professor of Medieval German Studies from 2008 to 2016, she completed her ‘Habilitation’ in 2014, with a study entitled Jesus und das Landrecht. Zur Realitätsreferenz bibelepischen Erzählens in Hoch- und Spätmittelalter. Since 2016 she has been a Professor of Medieval German Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Her main areas of research include intermediality, ‘Law and Literature’ and historical semantics; moreover, she is interested in issues of cultural history, especially in the context of medieval devotional practices.