Accession number
MS B.23
Object title
De vita et moribus philosophorum (MS B.23).
Created
Southern Germany, between 1437 and 1457.
Binding
Stained blue leather with staple for chain on bottom board.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
257 leaves (1 column, 34 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 215 x 144 mm
Provenance
"Bibliotheca Vienn[ensis' Scholaru[m] Piarum"; Jo. Ern. de Jamagne, Protonot. Apost. of Waidhofen a.d. Thaya, Austria; purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Mar. 1957 from William Dawson and Sons, London (cat. 92, no. 140).
Notes
Ms. devotional miscellany; written and decorated in southern Germany between 1437 and 1457.
Scribe: scribes who name themselves in the text are Walramus and Jo. Bermitter of Esslingen.
Texts: Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, dated Apr. 15, 1457 (fol. 1-70); Aedigus Columna (Giles of Rome), Extractus secundum alphabetum de libro de regimine principum (fol. 70v-144); Johannes Patriarcha Antiacenus, Quod concilium generale (Basiliense) sit supra Papam (fol. 145-162); Johannes Gerson, Tractatus de parvulis ad Christum trahendis (fol. 162v-176v); Johannes Gerson, Tractatus de duplici statu in Dei ecclesia, dated June 12, 1437 in Basel by Walramus, a "plebanus" of Baden (fol. 176v-180); Richardus de S. Victore, Tractatus de potestate ligandi et solvendi (fol. 180v-193v); Libellus de doctrina virtutum et fuga viciorum docens per quatuor (fol. 194-202v); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Tractatus de insigniis et armis, dated Feb. 2, 1457 by Jo. Bermitter of Esslingen (fol. 205-212); Aegidius Columna, Tractatus de archa Noe (fol. 212-214v); De horis canonicis (fol. 214v-222v); Arnaldus de Villanova, Regimen sanitatis (fol. 229-254); Utrum Christianis liceat occidere Turcos (?) (fol. 255-256v); Crux imprimitus regulariter in quatuor locis (fol. 257); De relaxione peccatorum per peregrinationem (fol. 257v).
Decoration: 2 filigree initials.
Scribe: scribes who name themselves in the text are Walramus and Jo. Bermitter of Esslingen.
Texts: Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, dated Apr. 15, 1457 (fol. 1-70); Aedigus Columna (Giles of Rome), Extractus secundum alphabetum de libro de regimine principum (fol. 70v-144); Johannes Patriarcha Antiacenus, Quod concilium generale (Basiliense) sit supra Papam (fol. 145-162); Johannes Gerson, Tractatus de parvulis ad Christum trahendis (fol. 162v-176v); Johannes Gerson, Tractatus de duplici statu in Dei ecclesia, dated June 12, 1437 in Basel by Walramus, a "plebanus" of Baden (fol. 176v-180); Richardus de S. Victore, Tractatus de potestate ligandi et solvendi (fol. 180v-193v); Libellus de doctrina virtutum et fuga viciorum docens per quatuor (fol. 194-202v); Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Tractatus de insigniis et armis, dated Feb. 2, 1457 by Jo. Bermitter of Esslingen (fol. 205-212); Aegidius Columna, Tractatus de archa Noe (fol. 212-214v); De horis canonicis (fol. 214v-222v); Arnaldus de Villanova, Regimen sanitatis (fol. 229-254); Utrum Christianis liceat occidere Turcos (?) (fol. 255-256v); Crux imprimitus regulariter in quatuor locis (fol. 257); De relaxione peccatorum per peregrinationem (fol. 257v).
Decoration: 2 filigree initials.
Script
Gothic cursive
Language
Latin
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