'Gedrukte boeken, met de pen gelezen. Sporen van leesinterpretaties in de religieuze manuscriptcultuur'

This article concerns a seventeenth century illustrated manuscript based on the popular religious emblem book Pia desideria (1624). Contrary to what has been noted before, the handwritten texts in the manuscripts were not newly created, but are in fact careful adaptations of the Pia desideria and other contiguous printed books. By reconstructing the relationship between the manuscript and its printed sources, I argue that the Pia desideria formed the starting point for a meditative reading and writing process in which fragments from different printed sources were creatively combined in a new meditation text.