University of Kansas, MS C64
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1154
- Shelfmark:
- MS C64
- Title:
- Dieta salutis
- Guillaume, de Lanicia, -approximately 1310
Victor, Sextus Aurelius
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- between 1401-1500
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 96 leaves : paper and parchment ; 200 x 130 (164 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 142 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Fenwick, Katherine Somerset Wyttenbach, 1823-1913
Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps, 1856-1938
Kölner Kartause
- Note:
- Title from closing rubric on folio 72v.
Manuscript codex
Collation: ii (parchment, i is pastedown) + 96 (paper and parchment) + ii (parchment): 1¹⁸ + 2²⁰ + 3¹⁴ + 4-5¹⁶ + 6¹². Only the innermost leaves of the first quire are parchment (folios 9 and 10).
Foliation: Two sets of foliation: contemporary foliation in ink, possibly by the scribe, at center in upper margin (i-lxxii); modern foliation in pencil in upper right corner on the remaining leaves (73-96). Foliation supplied by cataloger.
Signatures: Quires signed A-F in pencil in lower right corner on the recto of first folio of each gathering beginning with the first quire by Alexandra Mason, March 1963.
Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower right on folios 18v, 38v, 52v, 68v.
Watermarks: Two watermarks: a detached crossbow with stirrup (similar to Gravell CRSBW.053.1); a lily (fleur-de-lis) with a rectangular stem (unidentified).
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 44-47 lines (folios 1r-10r) and in 33-39 long lines (folios 10v-95r), above top line (folios 1r-94r), below top line (folios 94v-95r). Frame ruled in drypoint (folios 1-10), in lead (folios 11-94) and in ink (folios 94v-95r), all with full-length vertical and horizontal bounding lines.
Script: Written by a single hand in Gothic cursive.
Decoration: 2- to 6-line initials in plain red (folios 3r-62v); spaces left for 2- to 4-line initials (folios 73r-81v); sentence initials highlighted in red; words and phrases underlined in red; paragraph marks in red; chapter numbers in red; rubrics in red. Guide letters visible to the left of initials on most folios.
Binding: Contemporary, possibly original. Bound in dark brown quarter leather and wooden boards, with four alum-tawed slit straps with single herringbone sewing laced through channels. Evidence of a closure structure, most likely a single long pin strap hinging from the back cover, with all components lost. Front board worn. Some of the leather on the spine is destroyed, leaving the spine and...
Origin: Probably written in the Charterhouse of St Barbara in Cologne, Germany in the fifteenth century.
Former shelfmark: MS Y122
Former shelfmark: Phillipps MS 642
Related shelfmark: Cologne, Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln, Best. 233 Kartäuser, Repertorien und Handschriften, Nr. 14
Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS C64
In good condition except for minor bookworm damage at the tail of the first two quires and at the head of the fifth quire near the spine-folds which caused paper to tear, especially worse in the first quire. Approximately 15 mm of parchment is cut out of the head of the front flyleaf and approximately 20 mm of paper is cut out of the tail of the first folio. The latter seems to have contained...
The front pastedown and the flyleaf are made up of a single repurposed parchment leaf folded in half. The recto side (now the pastedown and the recto of the flyleaf) contains De viris illustribus urbis Romae / Pseudo-Sextus Aurelius Victor [incomplete; chapters 75-77]: "[acephalous] [incipit] accepit bello Tymbrico et Teutonico legat[us] bona[m] op[er]am manavit [sic] .... [explicit] Qui no[n...
The manuscript comes from the library of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara in Cologne, Germany (Kölner Kartause). Sixteenth-century shelfmark of the library inscribed in ink in upper right corner on folio 1r: "g.22." Seventeenth-century label of the library adhered to head of spine: "OO." Listed as "OO 134" in the seventeenth-century shelflist of the library, Cologne, Historisches Archiv der... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1n9tuvc/KU_VOYAGER2959538
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MSC64_30/manifest.json
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