University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 824
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1676
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 824
- Title:
- German religious and literary miscellany.
- Place:
- Cologne
- Date:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Language:
- Middle High German, Rhenish (Middle Franconian) dialect
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 79 leaves : paper ; 207 x 141 mm bound to 215 x 146 mm
- Note:
- The 8th work is incomplete and was crossed out by a contemporary hand; it is identified by Zacour-Hirsch as "Des Moenchs not."
Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in the lower Rhine, possibly Cologne, in the first half of the 15th century.
Title supplied by cataloger. Other title, Katherinenlegende, from Zacour-Hirsch; however, Jefferis states this is a Katharinenspiel not Katherinenlegende.
Incipit (1st work): Ein kyser hies maxencius / der geboit vns alsus...[Exp.] Dar hilff vns liebe Kathrina / Costi regis filia Amen.
Incipit (2nd work): Wyllet ir horen wass geschach / van eyme werden studenten eyn sache...[Exp.] Sie hait dit boich eyn ende / Got unss syne gnade sende / Amen.
Incipt (3rd work): O Kathrina hochgeborn frucht / synt dyn junffrauliche zucht...[Exp.] mir behude lip gut syn und ere / und mich van alle sunden kere / Amen.
Incipit (4th work): Ich wil uch eyn gedichte geben / van dem heilligen lexius leben...[Exp.] und myt gnaden dar gelerden / so wir van hynen scheiden / Amen.
Incipit (5th work): Horent ir lude uber alle / wass dit spiel beduden sal [vertical line in ms.]...[Exp.] Alle ungeluck muss den bestane / der nyt fraugen lieff wil han.
Incipit (6th work): Dye schriefft bedudet wass geschach / dass man jn hoen eren sitzen sach...[Exp.] Zu den hemelschen gnaden dyn / Maria dass muyss war syn / Amen.
Binding: 18th-century calf.
Incipit (8th work): monch / Ir herschaff nu horent alle / Wie uch diesse mere gefalle...[Exp.] Lieff al vmb vnd vmbe / Als er doricht were.
Incipit (9th work): O Maria heubt frauwe der cristenheit / Du bist dess sunders hoiste suyssickeit...[Exp.] Durch dyne werde namen gedriet / Syn got vnd ewich gebenedict / Amen
Incipit (10th work): Gelobet vnd geeret sie der name unssra hern Ihesu/ Cristi das vns das bilde der Warheit...[Exp.] alsus kumet alle creature et gude mentsche zu notze nu helff vns got zu synem ewigen riche Amen.
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 79 + iii (modern paper); 1-6, [7-79]; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper center; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Red used for initials and capital strokes.
Incipit (7th work): Ave preclara maris stella / Got grusse dich luter sterne glantz...[Exp.] myt dyme segon umberme / laiss vns zu dir transire / Amen.
Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1955. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9929766853503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pz51m3p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
