Leiden: Marienpoel

Augustinian nuns, just outside Leiden, founded 1428 by Boudewijn van Zwieten, as a new convent for the nuns of the convent of the Elfduizend Maagden in Oudewater, who had to flee.

Manuscripts

* LT-Va F22.95, Processionale-hymnale, 1556
* NL-L Kloosterarchieven 881, Professionale
* NL-L Kloosterarchieven 887, Agenda Mortuorum
* Ceska Republica, prem. abbey Nova Rise 70, diurnale for Haasje van Poelgeest (Kriezels p. 69)
* NL-L 65052/11, breviary, ca 1460, perhaps from Marienpoel (see BNM)

In addition there are:

* NL-L Kloosterarchieven 882, Liturgical prescriptions
* NL-L Kloosterarchieven 884, Costerinneboeck
* NL-L Kloosterarchieven 883, Coster boeck (more or less identical to 884)

Manuscripts produced for others

* NL-Lu BPL 2879, Missale fragment (17 fols.; sequences, no notation), 1438, for the castle Loenersloot (see CMD-NL 2, nr. 546a, pl. 542)
* NL-Lu BPL 2777, Cantuale, 1562, for the Oegstgeest parish church, with a colophon naming the chaplain

Literature

* Leven na de dood, pp. 37-41 and [189], cat.nrs. 54, 90, 91 and 92 (referring to the masters theses and several publications of M. Castenmiller and S. van de Velde)
* Archival documents of the convent are summed in Inventaris 503 of the Gemeentearchief in Leiden

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