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Fifteenth-century miscellany : Ms. Codex 740
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

Miscellany bound in the late 15th century, with contemporary table of contents for the second half of the text (f. 257v), and paper index tabs on outer margins to locate works. Many works include dates but are probably later copies.

Physical Description

Support: paper; Extent: 257 leaves : 203 x 156 (147 x 102) mm. bound to 216 x 165 mm; Collation: Paper, 257; 1-12¹², 13¹⁴ (-14), 14-16¹², 17-20¹⁶; [1-145], 1-23, [i], 24-32, 34-63, 63-109, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout

Written in 27-37 long lines; ruled in lead.

Script

Written in a German Gothic script by several hands.

Decoration

Decorated initials in black and red (f. 170r, 193v); rubricated headings, capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and manicules.

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.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Scribe for first work "per Johannem de prawnec" [i.e., Brauneck] at Donauwörth, 1470 (f. 124r).

(1st work): Expliciunt sermones de avaritia sive usuris per...Johannes Goldner decretorum doctorem...(f. 124r).

(2nd work): Explicit sermo...magistri Nicolai Dinkelspuhel (f. 143r); Sermon published from other manuscripts by H. Menhardt.

(5th work): Incipiunt tres puncti essenciales religionis Xristianae...(f. 146r).

(10th work): attributed to Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Zacour-Hirsch).

(14th work): Explicit tractatus cum registro suo continenti xlv articulos erroreos sive heretices Johannis Wickleph. Editus per [?] doctorem sacrae theologiae magistrum Stansilaum felicis [?] de Znoyma.

"Elisabeth sancte in claustro me bibliotheca possideat" (inside lower cover).

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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Keywords
15th century
Paper
Bohemian
Czech Republic
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Bohemia

Date

Written in Bohemia in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Binding

Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, with remains of clasp.

Provenance

Provenance: Poor Clares at Brixen (Tyrol), "Liber iste Cenobii est Clarissarum Brixine commorancium" (inside upper cover).

Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1956.

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Place of Origin

Bohemia

Date

Written in Bohemia in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Provenance

Provenance: Poor Clares at Brixen

Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1956.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Miscellany bound in the late 15th century, with contemporary table of contents for the second half of the text (f. 257v), and paper index tabs on outer margins to locate works. Many works include dates but are probably later copies.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Scribe for first work "per Johannem de prawnec" [i.e., Brauneck] at Donauwörth, 1470 (f. 124r).

(1st work): Expliciunt sermones de avaritia sive usuris per...Johannes Goldner decretorum doctorem...(f. 124r).

(2nd work): Explicit sermo...magistri Nicolai Dinkelspuhel (f. 143r); Sermon published from other manuscripts by H. Menhardt.

(5th work): Incipiunt tres puncti essenciales religionis Xristianae...(f. 146r).

(10th work): attributed to Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Zacour-Hirsch).

(14th work): Explicit tractatus cum registro suo continenti xlv articulos erroreos sive heretices Johannis Wickleph. Editus per [?] doctorem sacrae theologiae magistrum Stansilaum felicis [?] de Znoyma.

"Elisabeth sancte in claustro me bibliotheca possideat" (inside lower cover).

Script note

Written in a German Gothic script by several hands.

Decoration Note

Decorated initials in black and red (f. 170r, 193v); rubricated headings, capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and manicules.

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
Paper
Bohemian
Czech Republic
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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