Binding of v. 1: Original vellum ms. pastedowns with stubs; sewn on five supports attached to wooden boards; remains of brown calf stitched around plain wound headbands; rebacked with (probably) original calf sides inset; sides are blind-tooled with triple diagonals in an outer frame; an agnus dei, angel or floral tool is in each diamond formed., Binding of v. 2: vellum stays inside gatherings; sewn on 3 tawed skin slit straps laced into beech boards; the spine is lined with tawed skin between supports; remains of Kermes pink braid on a simple headband at the head, wanting at the tail; covered in tawed pigskin blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame; remains of two brown leather fastenings, the catches on the upper board; trace of writing and a label at the head of the upper board and an inscribed paper label on the spine., Provenance of v. 1: "Liber dom[us] sororu[m] sa[n]cte Agnetis Tong[r]is" and "Venerabilis Mater Monasterij S[anc]te in Oppido Tongrensi dono dedit hunc lib[r]um bibliothecae F[ra]trum Min[orum] in prefato Oppido commorantium Anno Dmi. 1671" (ms. on fol. 1); "Pro bibliotheca F[rat]rum Min[orum] Tongris" (ms. on fol 256 verso)., Provenance of v. 2: "Ex bibl. Frid. Jac. Roloff." (bookplate on front paste-down); "Ex Biblioth. Regia Berolinensi." and "[underciphered] Kol. Bibliothek Berlin" (stamps on fol. 1)., Rubricated throughout; capitals supplied in red (v. 1); in red or blue (v. 2)., Vol. 1 bought in May 1970; v. 2 bought in Sept. 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., and Vol. 2 imperfect: slightly wormed.
Publisher:
Konrad Winters,
Subject (Name):
Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Tongris Inscription (v. 1), Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin Stamp (v. 2), Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?, Roloff, Frid. Jac.--Bookplate., and Sisters of Saint Agnes (Tongeren, Belgium) Inscription (v. 1)
Authorship attributed to Hermannus Zittart, penitentiary of the Archbishop of Cologne, in Kaeppeli, T. Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 1883. Goff M-213 gives the GW form of the name as Hermannus de Sittard., Binding: contemporary pigskin-backed wooden boards, one clasp and catch; medieval ms. paste-downs at front and back from a German ninth-cent. Latin Bible (texts of Jeremiah 6:10-13 and 6:28-7:3)., Bought in Feb. 1995; the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Few spaces, with guide-letters, left for capitals; other capitals printed. Rubricated throughout. Printer's full-page device on K6v and M6v; both impressions have coat-of-arms supplied in red in lower shield. Few ms. notes., Imperfect: K7-8 and L⁴ wanting., Imprint from colophon on final leaf; colophon on leaf 180r gives precise day., and Provenance: "2207 c. fr. O P." (ms. on t.p.) indicating ownership by Frankfurt Dominicans (Dominkanerkloster Frankfurt am Main).