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Lumen animae, part II

Title
Lumen animae, part II.
Created
Southeastern Germany or Austria, [between 1400 and 1500]
Physical Description
ff. 217 : paper ; 145 x 105 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: two scribes: art. 1 is copied in Gothica Cursiva Formata close to Fractura; art. 2 in Gothica Semihybrida Currens with many abbreviations; in this art. the first line of each chapter is in clumsily executed large Gothica Textualis Formata.
Headings, paragraph marks, stroking of majuscules and underlining of the references to the authorities and their works, all in red ink (the underlining was beforehand traced by the scribe in black ink). Plain red 1-line initials at the opening of each chapter, sometimes with marginal extensions (a 3-line initial at the beginning of the text, f. 9r). Instructions for the rubricator are found in the margins.
Binding: original undecorated red pigskin over wooden boards; spine with four raised bands. Two clasps attached to the rear cover, with quadrangular brass catches on the front cover; a hole about the center of the top of the rear cover indicates that the booklet once was a liber catenatus. On the front cover a rectangular parchment title label with handwritten inscription in Gothica Cursiva Libraria: “De confessione. De amore Dei. De beatitudine” (16th century?).
In Latin.
Provenance
MS 135 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Booksellers, Berkeley, CA. Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of a theological and moral treatise based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2011
References
Lumen Animae, Part II. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Lumen Animae, Part II. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Austria - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
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