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Summa confessorum
Creator
Title
Summa confessorum.
Created
Southern Germany or Austria, 1462.
Physical Description
ff. 174 : paper ; 295 x 220 mm.
Language
German
Notes
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.
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.
In German.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
Collection of A.R.A. Hobson, London. Purchased in 1984 from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
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).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 16, 2010
References
Johannes von Freiburg, Summa Confessorum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Johannes von Freiburg, Summa Confessorum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Austria - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
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