Legenda aurea, etc.


2056356

Description

Title
Legenda aurea, etc.
Creator
Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415 and Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298
Published / Created
[ca. 1441]
Publication Place
Southern Austria
Abstract

Manuscript on paper, composed of four parts. Part I (ff. 1-13): Calendar, etc. Part II (ff. 14-138): Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. Part III (ff. 139-173): Anonymous letter to John Huss written after the Council of Constance; 35 articles of erroneous dogmatic teaching of the Greek church, written in the circle of the papal court during the endeavour to reconcile the Greek and Roman Churches at the Councils of Ferrara and Florence (1437-39). Part IV (ff. 174-269): Latin-German vocabulary.

Description
Binding: Ca. 1500 (?), Austria. Parchment stays from early manuscripts in center of quires. Original (?) sewing on three tawed skin, double, twisted sewing supports laced into grooves in flush wooden boards and fastened with square pegs. The grooves are filled in with glue. The spine is rounded and backed (naturally?) and back bevelled. A plain, wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core and also laced and pegged. The spine is lined with coarse cloth in the center and vellum at the ends, extending on the outside. Covered in plain, kermes pink, tawed skin (sheep?) possibly a later addition. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the upper board. There may have been a chain attachment at the head of the lower board. The insides of the boards have been varnished; off-set impressions of pastedowns from early manuscripts on both boards.
Part I: KL in calendar in blue; other charts and diagrams in shades of red and black. Small plain initials, headings, initial strokes and underlining in red. Parts II and III: Red or blue initials, 4- to 3-line, some with simple designs. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining in red. Guide letters for decorator. Part IV: Plain initials, and initial strokes, in red, for ff. 174r-176r.
Purchased from H. Rosenthal in 1946 by H. P. Kraus who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston.
Script: Each part written by a single hand in hybrida script.
Watermarks: unidentified mountain in gutter.
Extent
color illustrations
ff. 269 : paper ; 208 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
Latin

Collection Information

Call Number
Marston MS 140

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
mixed material
Genre
Astronomical charts
Charts (Graphic documents)
Drawings
Hand coloring
Illustrations
Manuscripts
Rubrics
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Council of Constance--(1414-1418)
Council of Florence--(1438-1445)
Jacobus,--de Voragine,--ca. 1229-1298
Subject (Topic)
Christian legends
Latin language--Dictionaries--German
Latin prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417

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Citation
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, etc. 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 140.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9810844
OID
2056356
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars140.htm

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