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Title

Sacramental handbook

Authors

• Thomas, von Erfurt, 14th century
• Escobar, Andrés de, d. ca. 1431
• Frédol, Bérenger, d. 1323
• Hermannus, de Schildiz
• Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314

Other related names

• Wigg, Johannes, former owner
• Six, Jan, 1857-1926, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 750
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615249
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487578

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with a few lines in German

Origin

Date

between 1370 and 1499

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of sermons, religious treatises and handbooks, and poems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• 4th work, attribution (f. 21r): Magister Andreas Hyspanus.
   
• 9th work (f. 45r): Incipit speculum manuale sacerdotum a fratre Hermanno De almannia de Scildis sacrae theologiae professor ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini.
   
• 10th work, incipit (f. 53r): Quaeritur primum quid sit signum.
   
• 11th work, incipit (f. 85r): In primis debet interrogare sacerdos penitentem ... (f. 123r) Sicut Moyses Amalech non armis sed orationibus expugnavit. Explicit Summa Berengharii.
   
• 13th work, incipit (f. 135r): Que est ista ... [Cant. 6:9]. Hec est vox[sermons on the assumption, annunciation, purification].
   
• 14th work, incipit (f. 144r): Hic narrat primo de mense qui Januarius appellatur.
   
• 15th work, incipit (f. 147r): Considera quod hodie.
   
• 16th work, incipit (f. 189r): Sacra scriptura continet de esse [recte, decem] precepta.
   
• 17th work, incipit (f. 211r): Qui digne vult communicari.
   
• 18th work, incipit (f. 211v): In inter cetera medici [on medicine related to the signs of Zodiac].
   
• 19th work, incipit (f. 214v): Quot fecit in Babylonia.
   
• 21st work, incipit (f. 218r): De dedicatione. Salus huic domui [Luc. 19:9] Solempnitas hodierne dedicationis.
   
• 22nd work (f. 255r): Eusebius scribit ... Incipit fundamentum puerorum a magistro Thoma Erfordie compilatum ... (f. 264v) me scribebat Ulricus nomen.
   
• 23rd work, incipit (f. 265r): Puer natus est nobis [Is. 9:6]. Sed hoc tempus ... (f. 278v) ut in hac parte terminatum libellus. Cui me scribebat Johannes [commentary by a student at Paris?].
   
• 26th work, incipit (f. 292v): Ego aurem ad iura a domino perseverabo in confessione.
   

Extent

306 leaves : 211 x 144 mm. bound to 226 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 306; [1-20], 1-24, [45-306]; contemporary or near contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half pigskin over boards; guards are parchment manuscript leaves, one in German, one a leaf from a missal.

Decoration

Some sections rubricated, with some initials in red, illustration of the constellations of the zodiac (f. 264v).

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Formerly in the library of the Carthusian monastery at Buxheim (f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by Johannes Wigg, parishioner of the village of Buxheim, donor to the Buxheim monastery library, and monk at Buxheim (inscription, Iste liber est domini Johannis Wigg, rectoris ecclesiae in Witenowe[?], f. 254v).
   
• Sold in the collection of J. W. Six (bookplate, inside lower cover) at auction at J. B. J. Kerling, 16 Nov. 1925.
   
• Sold at auction at J. L. Beijers, 21 April 1959, lot 39.
   
• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800
• Carthusians
• Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Confession--Early works to 1800
• Penance--Early works to 1800
• Sacraments--Early works to 1800
• Purgatory--Early works to 1800
• Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800
• Religious poetry, Latin--Early works to 1800
• Zodiac--Early works to 1800
• Astrology--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Poems
• Sermons
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Astrology
• Paper
• Christian
• Germany
• Instructional materials

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Summa confessorum, f. 1r
• fol. 18r — Aures versifice, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Versus de facetia mensae, f. 18v
• fol. 45r — Speculum manuale sacerdotum, f. 45r
• fol. 53r — Tractatus de sacramentis, f. 53r
• fol. 84r — Summa poenitentialis, f. 84r
• fol. 124r — Speculum manuale sacerdotum, f. 124r
• fol. 135r — Sermones de B. Maria, f. 135r
• fol. 144r — De mensibus anni, f. 144r
• fol. 147r — Sermones de praecipuis festivitatibus collecti, f. 147r
• fol. 189r — De decem preceptis, f. 189r
• fol. 211r — Preambula communicationis, f. 211r
• fol. 211v — De VI signorum, f. 211v
• fol. 214v — Sompniales Danielis prophetes, f. 214v
• fol. 217v — Infans si natus fuerit in die dominico, f. 217v
• fol. 218r — Sermones varii et exempla, f. 218r
• fol. 255r — Fundamentum puerorum, f. 255r
• fol. 265r — Compotus ecclesiasticus, f. 265r
• fol. 279r — Sermones, f. 279r
• fol. 289r — Questio, f. 289r
• fol. 292v — Prayers, miscellany, f. 292v
• fol. 296r — Notabilia varia et sermones, f. 296r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 134v — Drawing, f. 134v
• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside back cover
• Inside back cover — Bookplate, Inside back cover