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 on paper of Jacobus de Vitriaco, Historia Hierosolymitana Abbreviata, book 1 (the "Historia Orientalis").
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.749, XIII.771, and similar to XI.226., Script: Written in a well formed hybrida script by a single scribe., One illuminated intial, f. 1r, 18-line, dark green with stylized foliage in light green with yellow shading against red with gold filigree and gold ground edged dark and light grey. Foliage serifs, blue, green, pink, red, and grey with gold balls and gold accents extending into the upper, inner, and outer margins to form a partial border of attenuated and stylized curling leaves. One flourished initial, 5-line, blue with red penwork, f. 5v. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Headings in red for table and a few chapters; most spaces left unfilled by rubricator., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Southern Germany or Austria. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges to channels on the outside of flush beech boards and pegged twice. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with a rope-work flower in a central panel which is divided in three, the upper and lower sections divided into triangles; the whole panel within a rope interlace border. Spine: bands outlined with triple fillets. Two fastenings, now wanting, the lower board cut in to accomodate them.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240.
Subject (Topic):
Crusades, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
