Manuscript on paper, composed in 3 parts, of unidentified sermons. The three sections appear to have the same origin and to have been united soon after their making. The scribe and owner was a lay brother in the convent of Augustinian Canons St. Dorothea in Vienna
Description:
In German and Latin., Watermarks: Part I: balance, var. Piccard, Waage V.331?; star, var. Briquet 6077?. Part II: bull's head, unidentified?. Part III: column var. Briquet 4408?; bull's head var. Briquet 14825? (last three folios)., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76) copied by various hands writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part II (ff. 77-160) copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part III (ff. 161-261) copied by five hands in Gothica Cursiva Libraria., Part I: Headings in red, often missing; heightening of the majuscules in red; plain red 4-line initials; they are flourished with black penwork on ff.18v-19r. Part II: Headings in red, sometimes missing. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 125v-126r only. Spaces and guide-letters for 2-3 line initials (4-line initial on f. 77r) , which have not been executed., Part III: The decoration of art. 15 consists of 3-4 line plain initials in red; at the opening a 5-line flourished initial in red. Art. 16 has red stroking of the opening majuscules of all verses and 2-line plain red initials. In art. 17 the majuscules are heightened with red. The Fables in art. 15 are illustrated with unframed watercoloured pen drawings., and Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over unbevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover, containing several times the inscription in relief "Osan".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinian Canons. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, German
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a contract concerning land near Bruneck, a description in Latin of the damage to Mohammed's tomb in Mecca by a storm in 1481, and an account of the coronation of Emperor Maximilian I at Aachen in 1486, written in southern German dialect
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: written in a cursive gothic script (littera cursiva) in a hand similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.144., and Decoration: the first word of the document ("Ich") is enlarged, with the initial "I" trailing down the margin of the entire text; there is no punctuation.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a legal document containing a document concerning tenure of land; an account of the election of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486; and a brief description of how one is to celebrate the feast of a newly canonized saint
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: written in cursive gothic script (littera cursiva), similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.143., and Decoration: the document begins with a flourished initial; there is no punctuation.
Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
Description:
In German., Bookseller description available., Script: German cursive., and Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.
Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of the decease of the persons involved. Includes a sealed transcription of a charter, granted by Joseph Bergaigne, Provincial of the Franciscan Order, dealing with the lightening of the obligations incurred towards the benefactors and drawn up in the Convent of Poor Clares at Trier, Jan. 1618, and confirmation of that charter drawn up at Trier, 16 May 1725. Its patronym "Sta. Maria Magdalena" is mentioned in one of the printed documents kept together with the manuscript
Description:
In German., Script: Many Gothic hands ranging from the early 16th to the 19th centuries, but mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries., The Day Letters are in red ("A") or stroked with red ("B-G"). Names of months and feasts in red., and Binding: Original brown blind-tooled leather over oak boards, decorated with double fillets and small lozenge tools ("Ihesus" and "Maria" monograms) and rosettes; bound on five white leather thongs. Spine with five raised bands, rebacked. Remnants of one brass clasp attached to the rear cover. The front pastedown is detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of the decease of the persons involved. Includes a sealed transcription of a charter, granted by Joseph Bergaigne, Provincial of the Franciscan Order, dealing with the lightening of the obligations incurred towards the benefactors and drawn up in the Convent of Poor Clares at Trier, Jan. 1618, and confirmation of that charter drawn up at Trier, 16 May 1725. Its patronym "Sta. Maria Magdalena" is mentioned in one of the printed documents kept together with the manuscript
Description:
In German., Script: Many Gothic hands ranging from the early 16th to the 19th centuries, but mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries., The Day Letters are in red ("A") or stroked with red ("B-G"). Names of months and feasts in red., and Binding: Original brown blind-tooled leather over oak boards, decorated with double fillets and small lozenge tools ("Ihesus" and "Maria" monograms) and rosettes; bound on five white leather thongs. Spine with five raised bands, rebacked. Remnants of one brass clasp attached to the rear cover. The front pastedown is detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
Manuscript on paper of a collection of prayers, written at the Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee. Bound in with the manuscript are 3 printed works, each paginated separately; all with full-page engravings and full engraved borders: Das Leben der allerheyligsten vnnd vbergebenedeyten Jungkfrawen vnd Mutter Gottes Maria (Augspurg: Christoff Mang, 1609); Von den Siben Engelfurstenbetrachtungen vnd Gebett. Item. Von dreyerley Ambtern dess Heiligen Schutz Engels (Augspurg: Chrisostomo Dahertzhofer, 1612); Sunder Spiegel, Das ist (Augspurg: Chrisostomo Dahertzhofer, 1612).
Description:
In German., Script: Written by Melchior Wigg (alias Bruder Paulus) in a small even gothic cursive script, with loops. The scribe's signature on f. 117v is executed in large gothic textura, in blue ink, with red., A few initial I's extend the length of the writing area, done in blue with red or red alone; crude. 7- to 5-line initials in blue, with red penwork. On f. 77r, an elaborately split uncial d in blue. 4-, 3-, and 1-line initials in red or blue, sometimes with black or red penwork. Capitals stroked with red. Rubrics and red paragraph marks throughout., Some water stains and wax spills, none affecting the text. Reinforced in gutter by adding paper strips. Many pages trimmed, with loss of text., and Binding: 18th century. Black goatskin over wooden boards; on spine, gold filets and stars. Remains of 2 fore-edge clasps. Edges gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines., Catholic Church, and Tegernsee (Abbey)
Manuscript on paper (lightweight and brittle) of Lutheran Church, Sacramentarium et Collectae
Description:
In German., Watermarks buried in gutter and obscured by text., Script: Written in gothic textura and cursive by many scribes. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-17v) writes in a large gothic textura. Scribe 2 (ff. 18r-27r) writes in an even cursive script. Other cursive hands make notes and additions on ff. 1r-27r, and are intermingled in the text of ff. 27v-42v., Elaborate capitals on ff. 1r-17v, all by the first scribe, in brown ink. On ff. 18r-26v, headings in gothic textura, square capitals, or humanistic script, above the cursive text. Musical notation on a 5-line staff on ff. 15r-16v (the Lord's Prayer)., Most of the folios are now detached from the binding; some attempt was made to repair this, using paper strips. Margin of f. 1 repaired; does not affect the text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case, blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgies, Lutheran Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript on paper of John of Freiburg (Iohannes Lector Friburgensis OP, d. 1314), Summa confessorum, German adaptation by Berthold of Freiburg (Bertholdus Friburgensis OP, 14th century).
Description:
In German., Watermarks: var. Piccard, v. 15, VIII.1547?; var. Piccard, v. 110, III.1667?., Script: Copied by Johannes Geratwol in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with some Bastarda characteristics., Headings, heightening of the majuscules and mostly 1-line plain initials in red or green. The initial on f. 1r has green penwork. The first lines of all titles in art. 1 are underlined in red., and Binding: Original pigskin, blind-tooled with lozenges traced in double fillets over bevelled oak boards. Spine with three raised bands, a label with handwritten title (worn) and a small label with the shelfmark "634"; the same number is written on the front cover. Traces of one strap attached to the rear cover and clutching over a pin (lacking) on the front cover.The binding stays and the lining inside the spine are said to come from a 12th-century Antiphonary from Tyrol, with text from the office for Epiphany. One strip of the spine lining would be from an unidentified 14th-century manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314. and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Christian literature, German, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval