Boston Public Library, MS f Med.13

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DS ID:

DS3328

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.13

Title:

Lectura super firmiter credimus / Konrad von Soltau. De miseria humanae conditionis / Innocent III and others].

Author:

Konrad, von Soltau, approximately1350-1407

Konrad III. von Soltau WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Knevellynthusen, Hermannus

Hermannus Knevellynthusen WIKIDATA

Place:

Ruden?]

Rüden TGN

Date:

1448.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 122 leaves : paper, ill. ; 285 x 212 mm (210 x 150 mm) in box 31 cm

Former Owner(s):

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Kloster Bredelar (Bredelar, Germany)

Kloster Bredelar WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: An in morte christi corpus...
Collation: Paper, two watermarks: grapes (similar to Briquet 12995), bull's head similar to Briquet 15097., fol. 122 ; 16−2 (two cancels before fol. i) 2-1112 124−22 (two cancels after fol. 122) ; most catchwords trimmed, some extant in lower right corner final versos (e.g. fol. 86v); original arabic foliation begins on folio 1 (after four preliminary leaves) with "1", in center outer margin...
Layout: Two columns, 39 lines. Ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a gothic cursive (fol. i-iv verso and 121 written by a second hand on same paper stock) in brown ink with red rubrics in a gothic bookhand.
Decoration: Each section begins with an 8-10 line initial in red with brown filigree and light brown overwash, with the first few lines of text enlarged in a red Gothic bookhand. Consanguinity and affinity diagrams on fol. 112v, 114v, 116 and 118v, in black and red.
Binding: Original boards covered with alum-tawed sheep, originally white but now browned. Covers decoratively scored, flush with bookblock, straps extant, clasps on front cover lacking, no pastedowns (exposed channels), joints weakening, original German-braided endbands. Housed in tan cloth clamshell box.
Origin: Written by Hermannus Knevellynthusen in Rüden (Prussia, now NW Germany), 1448. See colophon on fol. 122.
Provenance: 17th-century ex libris, fol. 1, "Liber bibliotheca bredelarensis," the Cistercian abbey of Bredelar, also in NW Germany.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired from Sydney Cockerell in 1901 (seehis notes inside front cover; Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 42798 and 197856).
Call number: MS f Med.13.
Former call number: MS G.401.12.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 61.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Medieval

Embossed stamps

Gothic scripts

Ethics, Medieval

Catholic Church

Theology, Doctrinal

Dream interpretation

Divine office

Consanguinity (Canon law)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444661

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cc08md64c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library