Libellus_precum
Libellus precum
Collection of Prayers
A libellus precum (literally "booklet of prayings, booklet of petitions", plural: libelli precum) is a medieval collection of prayers, a prayerbook, in the manuscript form, although the term is applied by scholars to texts of some other types. The beginning of the scholarship recognizing them as a distinct type of literature is attributed to André Wilmart. [1] The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages says they are coming mainly from the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic lands.[2]
Typically libelli precum are unique texts, varying in prayers collected. The texts of prayers may be or may not be unique.[1]
Notable examples include Ælfwine's Prayerbook, folia Gertudiana, the prayerbook of Princess Gertrude of Poland included into the Egbert Psalter, Nawojka's Prayerbook