University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 750
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1654
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 750
- Title:
- Sacramental handbook.
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [between 1370 and 1499]
- Language:
- Latin, with a few lines in German
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 306 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 211 x 144 mm bound to 226 x 145 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Wigg, Johannes
Six, Jan, 1857-1926
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Germany from the 14th to the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Dates in the manuscript include 1423 (f. 43v) and 1372 (f. 295v).
Binding: Contemporary half pigskin over boards; guards are parchment manuscript leaves, one in German, one a leaf from a missal.
Ms. codex.
4th work, attribution (f. 21r): Magister Andreas Hyspanus.
9th work (f. 45r): Incipit speculum manuale sacerdotum a fratre Hermanno De almannia de Scildis sacrae theologiae professor ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini.
10th work, incipit (f. 53r): Quaeritur primum quid sit signum.
11th work, incipit (f. 85r): In primis debet interrogare sacerdos penitentem ... (f. 123r) Sicut Moyses Amalech non armis sed orationibus expugnavit. Explicit Summa Berengharii.
13th work, incipit (f. 135r): Que est ista ... [Cant. 6:9]. Hec est vox[sermons on the assumption, annunciation, purification].
14th work, incipit (f. 144r): Hic narrat primo de mense qui Januarius appellatur.
15th work, incipit (f. 147r): Considera quod hodie.
16th work, incipit (f. 189r): Sacra scriptura continet de esse [recte, decem] precepta.
17th work, incipit (f. 211r): Qui digne vult communicari.
18th work, incipit (f. 211v): In inter cetera medici [on medicine related to the signs of Zodiac].
Decoration: Some sections rubricated, with some initials in red, illustration of the constellations of the zodiac (f. 264v).
21st work, incipit (f. 218r): De dedicatione. Salus huic domui [Luc. 19:9] Solempnitas hodierne dedicationis.
22nd work (f. 255r): Eusebius scribit ... Incipit fundamentum puerorum a magistro Thoma Erfordie compilatum ... (f. 264v) me scribebat Ulricus nomen.
23rd work, incipit (f. 265r): Puer natus est nobis [Is. 9:6]. Sed hoc tempus ... (f. 278v) ut in hac parte terminatum libellus. Cui me scribebat Johannes [commentary by a student at Paris?].
26th work, incipit (f. 292v): Ego aurem ad iura a domino perseverabo in confessione.
Foliation: Paper, i + 306; [1-20], 1-24, [45-306]; contemporary or near contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by several hands.
19th work, incipit (f. 214v): Quot fecit in Babylonia.
Formerly owned by Johannes Wigg, parishioner of the village of Buxheim, donor to the Buxheim monastery library, and monk at Buxheim (inscription, Iste liber est domini Johannis Wigg, rectoris ecclesiae in Witenowe[?], f. 254v).
Sold in the collection of J. W. Six (bookplate, inside lower cover) at auction at J. B. J. Kerling, 16 Nov. 1925.
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1959.
Sold at auction at J. L. Beijers, 21 April 1959, lot 39.
Formerly in the library of the Carthusian monastery at Buxheim (f. 1r). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875783503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3dr2pd6m/manifest
- Holding Institution:
