Harvard University, MS Ger 184
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS10871
- Shelfmark:
- MS Ger 184
- Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Date:
- ca. 1470-1475
- Language:
- nds
lat
ger
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 115 leaves, bound ; 32 cm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Parkhurst, Matthew Simpson, 1888-
Wisser, Catharine
Michaeliskonvent (Lübeck, Germany)
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Written at Lübeck in bâtarde script, ruled in 2 cols. of 39 lines, with catchwords; measures 29 x 21 cm.; written space 23 x 15 cm. Includes rubrics in Latin and decorative colored initials in red and blue.
Watermark P with fleur-de-lis corresponds to Briquet 8591 (Colmar 1452, Basel 1456-65) and Briquet 8608 (Colmar 1472, Basel 1473).
Misbound fragments of a Historia scholastica, beginning (f. 1r) with III Kings 19: "Begnitus textus et caputulum xix."
Bound in a 15th-cent. German blind-tooled calf with remnants of paper documents as pastedowns; clasps and bosses removed, stamped on the front cover with the Lübeck bookbinder's name: "hinricus coster bant dit."
Catharine Wisser (inscribed on inside front cover): "Ex donatione Catharin[ae] Wisser possidet Habac[uc?] Meier Aō Christ[i] XCV [ ]; to Michaeliskonvent in Lübeck (existed until 1806); "aus Bürgermeister Gählers Auction" (19th cent., inscribed on inside front cover); Matthew S. Parkhurst of Lake Bluff, Illinois (by 1929).
Purchased from Mrs. Marie Parkhurst Morey with the Susan A. E. Morse fund, 1972. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095313310203941/catalog
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4298051
- Holding Institution:
