Western Michigan University, WMU MS 177

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6464

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 177

Title:

Postilla litteralis in vetus testamentum, pars

Commentary on the Old testament

Author:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349

Nicholas of Lyra WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1450-1475].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 252: paper ; 308 x 210 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Text includes commentary on Joshua 9 (ff. 1v-16v), Judges (ff. 17-48), Ruth (ff. 48v-53v), 1 Chronicles (ff. 54-86), 2 Chronicles (ff. 86v-112), Prayer of Manasses (f. 112), 1 Kings (ff. 112v-159v), 2 Kings (ff. 160-194), 3 Kings (ff. 194v-231v), and 4 Kings (ff. 232-252); on f. 237rv, the scribe copied three lines but his ink was running and they are blurred, presumably because the leaf was...
Early chained binding (possibily contempory or later) of brown leather over wooden boards, beveled and cut almost flush with the book block; sewn on double bands that enter the boards at the edge and are fastened on the inside; head and tail bands also fasten into the boards; spine with four raised bands with the remains of a tab at the top; simply tooled in blind with an outer frame and two...
Front cover detached; leather degraded and crackling, wear at the top and bottom of the spine; the binding has been tampered with and the first and last leaves now are pasted down at the front and back, perhaps when the opening and closing quires were removed; a few corners torn with very minor damage, slightly soiled at the beginning and the end.
Watermark: Tower with merlons without a window, similar to iccard Online 100480, Wemding, 1455, 100500, no place, 1459, 100531, Kaisheim, 1464.
Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University's Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.

Keyword:

Bible

Commentaries

Early works

Manuscripts, Medieval

Michigan--Kalamazoo

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Germany

Chained books

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21364826910002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222564~160270/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University