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Liber poenitentiarius
Creator
Title
Liber poenitentiarius.
Created
Germany or Austria, [between 1300-1400].
Physical Description
ff. i + 56 : parchment ; 165 x 125 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Copied by a single hand in an abbreviated Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. F. 55v is badly written by a contemporary hand.
Decoration: Red headings, expect on on ff. 14v-21r and 39v to the end, where they are not executed or are replaced by headings in brown ink written by later hands. Red stroking of majuscules. 2-line (3-line on ff. 1v and 10r) red plain initials, often with very long and developed penwork extensions in the same color in the margins or in the intercolumnar space. F. 55v is undecorated.
Binding: Original binding of red pigskin over rounded wooden boards, sewn on two split leather thongs. The covers are blind-tooled with a frame and a St Andrew's cross traced in fillets. Plaited headbands. Remnants of a strap fixed to the rear board. Flyleaf cut from a 13th century parchment manuscript.
In Latin.
Provenance
Collection of Count Oswald Seilern (1900-1967). Christie's sale, London, 26 March 2003 (The Count Oswald Seilern Collection). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of Johannes de Deo, Liber poenitentiarius.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2011
References
Johannes de Dei, Liber Poenitentiarius de Cautela Simplicium Sacerdotum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Johannes de Dei, Liber Poenitentiarius de Cautela Simplicium Sacerdotum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Austria - 15th century.
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