Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Complete version of the earliest German translation of the Legenda aurea., Teil I: Sommerteil, and Teil II: Winterteil
Description:
2 volumes bound together with discreet foliation., On paper, and Teil II wanting ff. 4, 292.
Subject (Name):
Oelrichs, Johann Carl Conrad, 1722-1798, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints --Biography --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Calendar --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Legends --Early works to 1800, Church calendar --Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, German--Germany, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Manuscript of a Manual containing 18 works, including instructions of Mass, moral instructions, meditations for prayer, a calendar, and two works ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
Description:
Leaf 105a excised.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians and Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Third orders
Manuscript on paper of 1) Martinus Oppaviensis OP (Martinus Polonus, Martin of Troppau, d. 1278), Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, with continuations up to pope Clemens VI (1342-1352). 2) Accounts and other documents from the years 1385-1403, dealing with farms in Germany.
Alternative Title:
Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century. Quarter red leather (pigskin) and oak boards with rounded edges; the leather fixed on the boards with iron nails; sewn on three split leather thongs. Remnants of one strap attached to the rear board, with a brass pin in the front board. Part of the iron attachment for a chain preserved at the top of the rear board. Yellowish leather pastedowns, now detached., In art. 1 the headings have not been executed (instructions for the rubricator in the lower margins in the first quire). Neither have the 2-line initials been executed, for which there are guide letters; the first initial only (a 3-line plain initial in black), f. 1r, has been made. Art. 2 is undecorated., Many pages water-stained and damaged, especially the lower margins. F. 1 and art. 2 badly spoilt by the use of a reagent., and Script: Art. 1 is probably copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria becoming more rapid towards the end. Art. 2 is written at various moments by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens in compressed and irregular lines, sometimes difficult to decipher.
Subject (Geographic):
Holy Roman Empire--History
Subject (Name):
Martinus,--Polonus,--d. 1279
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Farms--Germany, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Papacy--History
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Subject (Geographic):
Amorbach (Germany), Boxbrunn (Germany), and Erbach (Germany : Landkreis)