Liber poenitentiarius

Description

Title: Liber poenitentiarius
Creator: Dei, Johannes de, ca. 1190-1267
Published / Created: [between 1300-1400].
Publication Place: Germany or Austria
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Johannes de Deo, Liber poenitentiarius
Description: Script: Copied by a single hand in an abbreviated Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. F. 55v is badly written by a contemporary hand.
Decoration: Red headings, expect on on ff. 14v-21r and 39v to the end, where they are not executed or are replaced by headings in brown ink written by later hands. Red stroking of majuscules. 2-line (3-line on ff. 1v and 10r) red plain initials, often with very long and developed penwork extensions in the same color in the margins or in the intercolumnar space. F. 55v is undecorated.
Binding: Original binding of red pigskin over rounded wooden boards, sewn on two split leather thongs. The covers are blind-tooled with a frame and a St Andrew's cross traced in fillets. Plaited headbands. Remnants of a strap fixed to the rear board. Flyleaf cut from a 13th century parchment manuscript.
In Latin.
Provenance: Collection of Count Oswald Seilern (1900-1967). Christie's sale, London, 26 March 2003 (The Count Oswald Seilern Collection). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 56 : 165 x 125 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Dei, Johannes de, ca. 1190-1267.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Penance
Subjects: Dei, Johannes de, ca. 1190-1267
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Penance
Germany > 15th century
Austria > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Johannes de Dei, Liber Poenitentiarius de Cautela Simplicium Sacerdotum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.