Printed in the Netherlands A MARVELOUS HISTORY OF MARY OF NIMMEGEN WHO FOR MORE THAN SEVEN YEAR LIVED AND HAD ADO WITH THE DEVIL Translated from the Middle Dutch by HARRY MORGAN AYRES Associate Professor in Columbia University With an introduction by ADRIAAN J. BARNOUW Queen Wilhelmina Professor in Columbia University Of this series fifty copies have been printed on real Dutch hand-made paper, in 8vo size...

The miracle play of Mary of Nimmegen is one of the gems of Dutch mediaeval literature. Its heroine is a reincarnation of Beatrice, the runaway nun from a Brabant convent who, after wandering seven years with her paramour, and living other seven as a public woman, returned, a repentant sinner, to the convent to find that she had never been missed. For all those fourteen years the Mother of God had served, in her person, as sacristan, because Beatrice had never let a day go by without praying an A

In the days that Duke Arent of Guelders was done in prison at Grave by his son Duke Adolf and his knavish fellows there dwelt three mile from Nimmegen a devout priest hight Sir Gysbrecht, and with him dwelt a fair young maid hight Mary, his sister’s daughter, whose mother was dead. And this aforesaid maid kept her uncle’s house serving him in all needful with honesty and diligence. ¶ How Sir Gysbrecht hath sent his niece Mary to Nimmegen. It chanced that this Sir Gysbrecht would send his niece M

¶ AMEN ¶ This Book hath been examined and approved by a learned man thereto appointed....