Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Mariale; De laudibus beatae mariae virginis

Authors

• Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 (http://viaf.org/viaf/88125532/#Albertus,_Magnus,_saint,_1193-1280)
• Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298 (http://viaf.org/viaf/100198644/#Jacobus,_de_Voragine,_approximately_1229-1298)

Other related names

• Ruch, Georgius, former owner
• Cobbe, Francis, former owner
• Murphy, John A, former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777/#Goodhart,_Howard_Lehman,_1884?-1951)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 3
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms3.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This is a German manuscript from the first half of the fifteenth century, which contains two texts along with their tables of contents: Albertus Magnus' Mariale and Jacobus de Voragine's De laudibus beatae mariae virginis. The manuscript is composed of two distinct parts and there is some loss of text.

Notes

• Composed of two distinct parts
   
• Text written above the top line
   
• Secretary script (fols. 228v-229r)
   
• Written by multiple scribes
   

Watermark

Watermarks similar to Briquet Cloche 3967; Watermarks similar to Briquet Tête de Boeuf 14712; Watermarks similar to Briquet Corne 4532

Extent

229+i; 300 x 194 mm bound to 311 x 216 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil lower right, recto; contemporary foliation 1-131 for fols. 1-126 with some skipping but no loss of text; contemporary foliation 1r-99r for fols. 130r-228r

Collation

1-3 (12), 4 (12, -11 -12), 5 (12, -1), 6-19 (12), 20 (6, -6)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords near gutter on the verso of the final leaf of the first quire and some on the recto of the first leaf of the following quire for fols. 130-229; Horizontal catchwords near gutter, verso, most of which have been lost through trimming

Binding

Original binding of pigskin over wooden boards; five bosses on both front and back, now missing; remnants of two leather straps on back cover; paper strip with title on front upper cover: "Alberdine Magnus" still visible, excessive wear making the rest of the writing on this strip illegible; on back cover, in ink: "Albertus Magnus"; covers lined with parchment leaves from liturgical books with musical notations; black tooled on spine: "ALBERTVS/MAGNVS/DE/LAVDIBVS/GLORIO/VIRGINIS//NICOLAI/OPVS/MYSTICVM/DE/THEOLOGIA"; at bottom on spine: "MS. 1438"

Layout

Fols. 1-126: two columns, about thirty-two to forty-two lines, single vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink; pricking visible in top and bottom margin; written area: 215 x 145 mm

Fols. 127-128: two to three columns, no bounding lines or ruling; written area: 235 x 170 mm

Fols. 130-228r: two columns, forty-two to forty-five lines; single vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink; pricking visible in top and bottom margin; written area: 240 x 155 mm

Fols. 228v-229r: two columns, forty to forty-four lines, written text ignores vertical and horizontal bounding lines; written area: 250 x 165 mm

Decoration

Several seven- to eleven line initials in red or blue; many three- to six line red or blue initials throughout, some with extensions or more elaborate patterning, such as red stripes or dots against the white paper; headings and punctuation in red; many spaces for initials left unfilled; covers lined with parchment leaves from liturgical books with musical notations

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Secretary

Colophon

On fol. 128v: "Explicit tabula materiarum comprehensarum in hoc libro in parte anteriori completa per me Georgium Ruch pro tunc plebanus in lutrien possessor libri presentis anno Domini 1438 die Leonhardi." On fol. 229r: "Explicit tabula presentis opusculi posita ad breviandam laborem quaerentis. 1438."

Related resources

• Borgnet, A. B. Alberti Magni Opera omnia, v. 37 (Paris, 1898) pp. 1-321.
• de Voragine, Jacobus. De laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginis. Schneyer 672 and Kaeppili, SOPMA 2158.
• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 434, no. 3.

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Albertus Magnus, Mariale; incipit: Clara est et que numquam marcessit sapientia et facile videtur ab his qui diligunt eam invenietur ab his qui quaerunt eam preocupat qui se concupiscunt vt illis se prior [fol. 1r]; explicit: et dum ad seruicem concurrit matrem infantumque ab alterutro excitata deuotione mirabilius fiat miraculum de miraculo. Amen. Laudes beate virginis Alberti [126v]
• fol. 127r — Table of contents for Albertus Magnus, Mariale; incipit: Si maria fuit missionum signum/ Que conueniat mitti homines [fol. 127r]; explicit: Non erit impossible apud deum [fol. 128v]
• fol. 130r — Jacobus de Voragine, De laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginis; incipit: [A]bstinencia multipliciter fuit in beatissima maria uirgine gloriosa. Est enim quadruplex species abstinencie prima est abstinencia ob omnibus nocuis de qua dicitur in Cor. [fol. 130r]; explicit: beatissime illa tamen hic specialiter designatur quae materna transfixit uiscera domino in cruce moriente. Finito libro. Sit laus et gloria christo. [fol. 228r]
• fol. 228v — Table of contents for Jacobus de Voragine, De laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginis; incipit: [A]bstinenciam quadruplicem habuit beata virgo folio primo/ Aduocata/ [fol. 228v]; explicit: vulnerata multis gladiis [fol. 229r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate for Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Bookplate of John A. Murphy.
• Inside front cover — Unidentified manuscript catalogue entry
• Inside front cover — Unidentified printed catalogue entry
• Inside front cover — Covers lined with parchment leaves from liturgical books with musical notations
• fol. 1r — Seven-line red and blue initial C
• fol. 2r — Eleven-line red initial P
• fol. 77v — Nine-line red initial I
• fol. 82v — Eight-line red initial I
• fol. 99v — Seven-line red initial I
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookseller's notes in pencil
• Inside back cover — Covers lined with parchment leaves from liturgical books with musical notations