Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters. Begonnen von Hella Frühmorgen-Voss†. Fortgeführt von Norbert H. Ott zusammen mit Ulrike Bodemann. Band 5, Lieferung I/2. 43. Gebetbücher. Von Regina Cermann. München: Kommission für Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002. Pp. xii + 172 + 29 colored ill. + 58 black-and-white ill. + 22 pp. EUR 49.50.

The first two fascicles of Volume 5 appeared even before Volume 3 of the Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters was concluded†with good reason. Volume 5 is dedicated to the most extensive of all the types of illustrated manuscripts in German; namely, prayerbooks. Moreover, as Norbert Ott notes (p. ix), a large portion of the German-language prayerbooks must be understood in the context of corresponding Latin, French, and Dutch manuscripts. The prayerbooks included in Vol. 5 are organized according to medium, not text type, and the first two fascicles published here are devoted to manuscripts (subsequent fascicles will contain Blockbücher, incunables, and early imprints).

Marianne E. Kalinke
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign