Horologium sapientiae

Description

Title: Horologium sapientiae
Creator: Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
Contributor: Franciscans--Manuscripts
Seuse, Heinrich,--1295-1366
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: France,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of The Horloge de Sapience, a loose translation and adaptation into French of Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae. With a Colophon, in French verse, stating that the translation was made by a French Franciscan master of theology at Neufchateau in 1389.
Description: Binding: 1800-1810, France. Diced brown calf, blind-and gold-tooled. Edges gilt. Stains from turn-ins of early binding on original front parchment pastedown. Rebacked.
Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, foliation and underlining, all in red.
Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London in 1955 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston.
Script: Written in batarde script, below top line.
Extent: ff. ii + i + 181 + ii : parchment ; 324 x 222 (228 x 140) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Franciscans--Manuscripts
Seuse, Heinrich,--1295-1366
Subject (Topic): Devotional literature, French
Literature, Medieval--Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Mysticism--Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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Citation: Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 145.

Orbis Record: 9810934
Object ID (OID): 11403244
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars145.htm