The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 49124

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9737

Shelfmark:

mssHM 49124

Title:

Devotions

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1461 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + ii + 245 + i + i : paper ; 67 x 89 mm

Former Owner(s):

Harding, Ethel Adela

Ethel Adela Harding WIKIDATA

Harding, Walter Ambrose

Walter Ambrose Heath Harding WIKIDATA

Note:

Devotional texts written in northwestern Germany (as suggested by the veneration shown to Odilia and Matthias, patrons respectively of Strasbourg and Trier), after 1461 (the date of canonization of Catherine of Siena), for and probably by a Dominican whose name seems to have been Louis, on f. 184v is a prayer for "...me indignum famulum tuum ludowicum..."
Span folios: ff. 1-245v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Watermarks, Armoiries, Fleur de lis similar to Briquet 1744, Paris 1482, Cologne 1481-94 and various other places in northeastern Europe. Layout: 110(-1, 10; 1 replaced by another leaf) 2-510 612(-1, 10 after ff. 49 and 57) 710(-9 after f. 67, probably blank) 810(through f. 78) 910(through f. 88) 1010(through f. 98) 1110(-9, 10 after f...
Decoration: 6- to 1-line red initials, occasionally washed in yellow; rubrics and underlining in red. Damage to ff. 98v and 227v suggests that engravings, once pasted to these pages, have since been removed. Contemporary foliation, 49-50 (on present ff. 2-3), 68-70 (on present ff. 20-22), 99-106 (on present ff. 50-57), 108-117 (on present ff. 58-67), 119 (on present f. 68) 120-127 (on present...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
On f. 245, ownership note of "Frater Balthasarus Schuop anno domini 1572." Sixteenth century ex libris of a convent, probably Dominican, in Frankfurt on f. ii, "Iste libellus pertinet ad Conventum Franckfordiciensem Anno domini [15]78." Eighteenth century pressmark, presumably of the same convent, on f. iii verso, "No. 4910 C[onventus] fr[atrum] O[rdinis] P[raedicatorum]." Given after the...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Prayer books

Devotional literature

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861965

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52910/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens