Religious and philosophical miscellany

Accession number:

MS M.822

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Created:

Austria or the Czech Republic, ca. 1380-1399.

Binding:

Late fourteenth-century Czech cut leather technique (cuir-ciselé), brown leather over boards. [Manuscript bought for binding].

Description:

281 leaves (1 column, 10 lines), bound : paper, vellum, 301 x 222 mm

Provenance:

From the library of the Benedictine Abbey of Göttweig, diocese of St. Pölten, Austria; purchased from Brummer Gallery, New York in November, 1947.

Notes:

Ms. religious and philosophical miscellany; written in Austria or the Czech Republic, late 14th century.
Texts: 1) Gospel according to St. Luke, with commentary by Nicolas de Gorran (fols. 1-191); 2) Tractatus (acephalus) de philosophia (fols. 192-204); 3) Passio Domini Jesu Christi ex Evangelistis collecta, with commentary (fols. 205-234); 4) Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary (fols. 235-280).
Manuscript is written on eight different paper stocks with several Italian watermarks, among them the ox - Briquet 2739 - dated Udine, 1390, and circles - Briquet 322, dated Udine in documents of 1302-3, 1307, 1369, and 1376; also a cart - Briquet 3526, dated Likhalscheff, Russia, 1388) interspersed with vellum leaves.
All quires are of varying sizes except those between fols. 137-173 and 190-204, which are each enclosed within a vellum bifolium that is also written upon as part of the text.

Script:

textura, cursive

Language:

Latin

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