Harvard University, MS Ger 74

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10989

Shelfmark:

MS Ger 74

Date:

between 1450 and 1534

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

gmh

Middle High German WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

ill.

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (71 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.

Note:

Begins: "Nun griess dich got du edels getranck."
Written in Germany in several unidentified hands in littera bastarda with headings and colored initials in red.
The poems are dated by Eckehard Simon to 1444-1476.
Recipes in German and Latin written in a later hand and dated 1534.
Also contains proverbs, maxims and medical recipes.
Bound in old wood boards with new pigskin spine.
Includes 2 envelopes with related material.
Gift of Taylor Starck, 1955.

Keyword:

commonplace books

proverbs

maxims

poems

Manuscripts, Medieval

recipes

Drawings

Christmas plays

Prophecy--Christianity

Weather forecasting

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096203160203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:24209555

Holding Institution:

Harvard University