- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 205
- Image Count:
- 143
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- use in a Dominican house of nuns
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Script: Written by a single scribe in well formed gothic textura. Articles 1 and 6 have 4-line staves, in red, and black square notes., Uninspired blue initial, 2-stave, on f. 1r, infilled and surrounded by red penwork flourishes with blue accents. Similar plain initials, 2-line, alternate in blue, red, and black with red throughout. Running titles and headings in red., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Resewn, using original sewing holes, on three double vegetable fiber cords laced into back-cornered and indented oak boards. Endbands embroidered on a strip of vellum and adhered, the vellum extending onto the outside of the boards. The spine is square and lined all along with manuscript fragments extending to the inside of the boards. Covered in vellum blind-tooled with concentric borders containing heads in oval frames among foliage in the outer, and busts of saints in the inner. Two brass fastenings, the catch on the upper board, straps attached to the lower with a metal plate. Straps wanting and a slight crack in one joint.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Dominican sisters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Processional, Dominican use
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- Creator:
- Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314
- Published / Created:
- 1462.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 654
- Image Count:
- 175
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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):
- Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Christian literature, German, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa confessorum