Vassar College, MS. 12

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11926

Shelfmark:

MS. 12

Title:

Book of Sermons

Author:

Johannes, von Werdea, approximately 1420-1475

Johannes von Werdea WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Matheus de Stettindorff

Matheus de Stettindorff WIKIDATA

Place:

Austria

Austria TGN

Date:

1474

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 280 leaves : paper ; 155 x 110 (120 x 90) mm bound to 160 x 110 mm

Note:

Ms. Codex.
Title from Kidd.
Secondo folio: "[le]serat servos."
Collation: Paper, fol. i (paper) + 266 leaves (foliated 49-329) + i (paper); 1-1612 1712−4 18-1912 2012−3 2112−1 2212 2312−1.
Layout: written in one column of 29-32 lines; unruled.
Script: written in Gothic cursive script.
Decoration: initials, underscoring, paragraph marks, and some headings in red.
Includes index (fol. 328v-329v).
Inscribed in 19th-century (?) ink "8166" (fol. 49r). Inscribed on front pastedown in 20th-century pencil (erased) with number (?) and "Codex Manuscriptus. Typescript note indicating acquisition in Budapest by Frances Allen Foster, Vassar College Professor of English.
Origin: Written in Austria, perhaps in Behamberg, by Matheus de Stettindorf, identified in two colophons dated 1474 (fol. 66r, 178v)

Keyword:

Sermons

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991010714079707396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College