Grolier Club, MS 16

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS212

Shelfmark:

MS 16

Title:

Excerpts regarding Josephus and Eusebius of Caesarea

Josephus

Eusebius of Caesarea

Contra Appionem

Against Apion

Historia ecclesiastica

Historia ecclesiastica

Author:

Jerome

Jerome WIKIDATA

Josephus

Josephus WIKIDATA

Eusebius

Eusebius of Caesarea WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Conrad of Werden

Conrad of Werden WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1462, March 7; s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper and parchment

Paper AAT

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound, s. XVI, in tawed, cream-colored pigskin over boards, with stamps of rosettes, flowers in ovals and triangles, a dragon in a rectangle, fleurs-de-lis, and rolls of foliage and scrollwork with brass metalwork; clasps.
Script, ff. 1-145v: Bastarda.
Layout, ff. 1-145v: Gatherings mostly of 12 leaves, of paper with parchment for the outer and inner bifolia; 2 columns of 40 lines.

Former Owner(s):

On back flyleaf, "Emptus est iste liber pro septem florenis anno domini M CCCC lxx per Iohannem abbatem," of St. Mang, O.S.B. in Füssen; at secularization, the library went to the Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Owned by Norman H. Strouse.

St. Mang's Abbey WIKIDATA

Oettingen-Wallerstein library WIKIDATA

Norman H. Strouse WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: Bound with a printed edition of Flavius Josephus, De antiquitate Judaicaand De bello Judaico Augsburg: Johannes Schüssler, 1470 [HC* 9451; P* 1589; BMC II 327], itself of 288 leaves.
Bibliography: Kristeller, Iter italicum vol. 5 p. 317 under the call number, 34.1/Augsburg/Schuessler/1470/Folio.
ff. 1-145v: On f. 145v, Conscripta est hec presens hystoria In monasterio sancti magni in faucibus sub regimine . . . Iohannis cognomento Hessen pro tunc prefati monasterii abbatis per fratrem conradum werdensem Sub anno . . . 1462 feria sexta ante Invocavit.
ff. 1-145v: Latin.
Verso + facing recto: Notes from Bk. 1 and Bk. 2 added to the last page of the printed text and on the facing added leaf, by the same person who compiled the bibliographic excerpts from Jerome on the front pastedown.
Explicit, Verso + facing recto: Denique de bello quod apud nost contigit nuper quidam hystorias scribentes ediderunt.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/MS16_24

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/images_MS16_24/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Grolier Club