Collection of texts by Jean Gerson
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16960317
Description
- Title
- Collection of texts by Jean Gerson
- Alternative Title
- Nine tracts
- Creator
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
- Published / Created
- 1456.
- Publication Place
- Cologne and Germany Cologne
- Abstract
-
Manuscript, in the hand of Theodoricus de Harlem, on paper and parchment, containing a collection of works by Jean Gerson: De spirituali mendicitate, De viciis ministrorum ecclesie, Sermo de tribulationibus ecclesie, De pollutione diurnis, Expositio clausule dominice, Oratio anxii peccatoris, Considerationes XII, De monte contemplationis (originally written in French), and Alphabetum divini amoris (written by Johannes Nider, commonly attribued to Jean Gerson).
- Description
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In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: gothic textualis.
Decoration: three-line initials in red ink. Rubrication.
Layout: single column of 32 lines.
Binding: 15th-century brown leather over wooden boards; rebacked in 1986 by J. Macdonald.
Manuscript note on front pastedown: Liber domus sancte Barbare in Colonia ordinis Carthusiensis in quo continentur subscripta ...
Colophon (f. 48): Scriptum per manus fratris Theoderici de Harlem monachi domus sancte Barbare in Colonia carthusiensis ordinis. Anno domini 1456. Anno etatis sue 65. - Provenance
- Originally from the Carthusian monastery of St. Barbara at Cologne (manuscript note on front pastedown); shelfmarks J 52 and OO 115. Formerly owned by Leander van Ess (no. 171). Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (manuscript 555). Sold to Barnard, booksellers, in the Sir Thomas Phillipps sale (Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, lot no. 625). Sold by Barnard, booksellers, in April 24, 1911, lot no. 475. Bookplate of Gerald Poynton Mander (verso front flyleaf ). Sold to Maggs Bros., booksellers, in the Gerald Mander sale (Sotheby's, London, 1954, lot no. 6). Formerly owned by Maggs Bros., booksellers: catalogue 838 (1956), no. 46. Formerly owned by F. Thomas Heller, booksellers: list no. 88, no. 114. Presented to Yale Med in 1958 by David Pingree Wheatland.
- Extent
- 1 item (144 leaves) : 21 mm x 140 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Manuscript 38 vault
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates
Monasteries - Material
- paper and parchment ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Topic)
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Medicine
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval - Subjects
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Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Monasteries > Germany > Cologne > Inscription
Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847 > Ownership
Mander, Gerald Poynton > Bookplate
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 > Ownership
Carthusians > Germany > Cologne > Inscription
Kölner Kartause > Inscription
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4746382
- Object ID (OID)
- 16960317
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