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Title

Fifteenth-century miscellany :

Authors

• Goldner, Johannes
• Nicholaus, von Dinkelsbühl, ca. 1360-1433
• Augustinus, de Ancona, 1243-1328
• Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1368-1437
• Wenceslas, Emperor of Germany, 1361-1419
• Palmer, Thomas, Hibernicus
• Stanislaus, de Znoyma

Other related names

• Johannes, de Brauneck, scribe
• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153, attributed name

Call number

Ms. Codex 740
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212144330
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487556

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Bohemia

Summary

Miscellany bound in the late 15th century, with contemporary table of contents for the second half of the text (f. 257v), and paper index tabs on outer margins to locate works. Many works include dates but are probably later copies.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Scribe for first work "per Johannem de prawnec" [i.e., Brauneck] at Donauwörth, 1470 (f. 124r).
   
• (1st work): Expliciunt sermones de avaritia sive usuris per...Johannes Goldner decretorum doctorem...(f. 124r).
   
• (2nd work): Explicit sermo...magistri Nicolai Dinkelspuhel (f. 143r); Sermon published from other manuscripts by H. Menhardt.
   
• (5th work): Incipiunt tres puncti essenciales religionis Xristianae...(f. 146r).
   
• (10th work): attributed to Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• (14th work): Explicit tractatus cum registro suo continenti xlv articulos erroreos sive heretices Johannis Wickleph. Editus per [?] doctorem sacrae theologiae magistrum Stansilaum felicis [?] de Znoyma.
   
• "Elisabeth sancte in claustro me bibliotheca possideat" (inside lower cover).
   

Extent

257 leaves : 203 x 156 (147 x 102) mm. bound to 216 x 165 mm

Collation

Paper, 257; 1-12¹², 13¹⁴ (-14), 14-16¹², 17-20¹⁶; [1-145], 1-23, [i], 24-32, 34-63, 63-109, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, with remains of clasp.

Layout

Written in 27-37 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Decorated initials in black and red (f. 170r, 193v); rubricated headings, capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and manicules.

Script

Written in a German Gothic script by several hands.

Provenance

• Provenance: Poor Clares at Brixen (Tyrol), "Liber iste Cenobii est Clarissarum Brixine commorancium" (inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1956.
   

Subjects topical

• Hussites
• Lollards
• Asceticism--Early works to 1800
• Canon law--Early works to 1800
• Heresy--Early works to 1800
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern

Genres

• Codices
• Sermons
• Decrees
• Finding tabs
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Paper
• Bohemian
• Czech Republic

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Finding tab, f. 2r
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 10r — Manicule, f. 10r
• fol. 12r — Manicule, f. 12r
• fol. 16v — Manicule, f. 16v
• fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
• fol. 27r — Manicule, f. 27r
• fol. 28r — Manicule, f. 28r
• fol. 50v — Manicule, f. 50v
• fol. 56r — Manicule, f. 56r
• fol. 67v — Manicule, f. 67v
• fol. 80v — Manicule, f. 80v
• fol. 82r — Manicule, f. 82r
• fol. 111r — Manicule, f. 111r
• fol. 115v — Manicule, f. 115v
• fol. 124r — Finding tab, f. 124r
• fol. 143r — Finding tab, f. 143r
• fol. 145r — Finding tab, f. 145r
• fol. 146r — Finding tab, f. 146r
• fol. 147v — Manicule, f. 147v
• fol. 157v — Manicule, f. 157v
• fol. 160r — Manicule, f. 160r
• fol. 162v — Manicule, f. 162v
• fol. 164r — Finding tab, f. 164r
• fol. 170r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 170r
• fol. 170r — Manicule, f. 170r
• fol. 176r — Manicule, f. 176r
• fol. 179r — Manicule, f. 179r
• fol. 180v — Manicule, f. 180v
• fol. 185v — Manicule, f. 185v
• fol. 186v — Manicule, f. 186v
• fol. 193r — Finding tab, f. 193r
• fol. 195r — Finding tab, f. 195r
• fol. 206r — Manicule, f. 206r
• fol. 210r — Finding tab, f. 210r