Cornell University, Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 31

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12129

Shelfmark:

Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 31

Title:

Manuale in investionibus, professionibus, et iubileis monialium necessarium, ad usum prioris monasterii Rubee vallis

Place:

Rougeval, Belgium (near Brussels)

Belgium TGN

Date:

between ca. 1400 and ca. 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 52 leaves : parchment ; 145 x 109 (99 x 70) mm. bound to 153 x 118 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Contents: f. 1r: Title in a 17th-century hand -- ff. 2r-7v: "De iubileo sororum" in a 15th-century formal Gothic hand -- f. 8r: blank -- f. 8v: Additions to the service in a 17th-century cursive hand and a contemporary pseudo-Gothic hand -- ff. 9r-27v (in a formal Gothic hand): Ceremonial for the induction of a nun into the Augustinian order, beginning "Postq[ua]m p[er]sona q[ue] ad...
Layout: Written in 16 (or 17) long lines; frame-ruled, prickings visible on some folios.
Script: Gothic textual and Gothic hybrid hands of the 15th century; cursive hands of the 17th century; 17th-century imitation of Gothic textual. A late (presumably 17th-century) hand has dotted the i's of the 15th-century Gothic textual on several folios.
Music: Contains musical notation.
Binding: 17th century, calf.
Origin: Written in Belgium, fifteenth century.
Provenance: L. Weerdt. Obtained in Europe by A.D. White in 1886. Donated to the White Library in 1891.
Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare BX C36 M295
Related shelfmark: MS B.37

Keyword:

parchment (animal material)

Gothic scripts

Monastic and religious life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/3978587

Holding Institution:

Cornell University