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This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century copy of Jacobus de Voragine's Sermones quadragesimales, which notably contains one of the earliest extant examples of a printed bookplate, that on Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach, circa 1480.
Support: Paper; Extent: vi+240+i; 213 x 147 mm bound to 218 x 156 mm; Foliation: Foliated in contemporary ink, near-center top of recto; Letter C is used for 100 and CC for 200 in combination with arabic numerals; Collation: 1-20 (12); Signatures: Signatures throughout, every twelve leaves beginning folio 13r, lower middle on recto; Catchwords: Catchwords throughout, every twelve leaves beginning folio 12v, lower right on verso
Single column thirty-three to thirty-four lines; frame-ruled in pencil, pricking visible; no line ruling; written area; 150 x 101 mm
Gothic--cursiva
One large initial C with ornamental penwork (fol. 1v); red three-line initials (including some written on their sides) throughout; red touches throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ex-libris of Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach: an angel supporting a shield vert, charged with an ox argent
Parchment guards in the middle of every quire
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Bopfingen, Württemberg, Germany
Written at Bopfingen, Württemberg, by the student Johannes Anhang in 1408, finished on the morrow of the feast of the Apostle Thomas (December 22nd); 1408
Bound in fifteenth-century sheepskin; front cover lined with leaf from an earlier antiphonal; metal bosses and two clasps; past on first flyleaf is the ex-libris of Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach, considered the oldest German woodcut bookplate
Latin
Hildebrand Bradenburg, gifted to Buxheim in 1480; Juliana Force (sold Parke-Bernet, 17 May 1943, no. 338); gift of Gordan A. Block, Jr., 1956
Bopfingen, Württemberg, Germany
Written at Bopfingen, Württemberg, by the student Johannes Anhang in 1408, finished on the morrow of the feast of the Apostle Thomas (December 22nd); 1408
Latin
Hildebrand Bradenburg, gifted to Buxheim in 1480; Juliana Force
This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century copy of Jacobus de Voragine's Sermones quadragesimales, which notably contains one of the earliest extant examples of a printed bookplate, that on Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach, circa 1480.
Ex-libris of Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach: an angel supporting a shield vert, charged with an ox argent
Parchment guards in the middle of every quire
Gothic--cursiva
One large initial C with ornamental penwork (fol. 1v); red three-line initials (including some written on their sides) throughout; red touches throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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