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Title

German religious and literary miscellany

Call number

Ms. Codex 824
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9929766853503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/187988705
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2976685

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle High German, Rhenish (Middle Franconian) dialect

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1450

Place

Cologne?

Summary

Miscellany of saints' legends; verse comedies and farces (one in the form of a play, Aristoteles und Phyllis); a Marian hymn and sequence; and a prose devotional text on preparation for confession.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger. Other title, Katherinenlegende, from Zacour-Hirsch; however, Jefferis states this is a Katharinenspiel not Katherinenlegende.
   
• Incipit (1st work): Ein kyser hies maxencius / der geboit vns alsus...[Exp.] Dar hilff vns liebe Kathrina / Costi regis filia Amen.
   
• Incipit (2nd work): Wyllet ir horen wass geschach / van eyme werden studenten eyn sache...[Exp.] Sie hait dit boich eyn ende / Got unss syne gnade sende / Amen.
   
• Incipt (3rd work): O Kathrina hochgeborn frucht / synt dyn junffrauliche zucht...[Exp.] mir behude lip gut syn und ere / und mich van alle sunden kere / Amen.
   
• Incipit (4th work): Ich wil uch eyn gedichte geben / van dem heilligen lexius leben...[Exp.] und myt gnaden dar gelerden / so wir van hynen scheiden / Amen.
   
• Incipit (5th work): Horent ir lude uber alle / wass dit spiel beduden sal [vertical line in ms.]...[Exp.] Alle ungeluck muss den bestane / der nyt fraugen lieff wil han.
   
• Incipit (6th work): Dye schriefft bedudet wass geschach / dass man jn hoen eren sitzen sach...[Exp.] Zu den hemelschen gnaden dyn / Maria dass muyss war syn / Amen.
   
• Incipit (7th work): Ave preclara maris stella / Got grusse dich luter sterne glantz...[Exp.] myt dyme segon umberme / laiss vns zu dir transire / Amen.
   
• Incipit (8th work): monch / Ir herschaff nu horent alle / Wie uch diesse mere gefalle...[Exp.] Lieff al vmb vnd vmbe / Als er doricht were.
   
• Incipit (9th work): O Maria heubt frauwe der cristenheit / Du bist dess sunders hoiste suyssickeit...[Exp.] Durch dyne werde namen gedriet / Syn got vnd ewich gebenedict / Amen
   
• Incipit (10th work): Gelobet vnd geeret sie der name unssra hern Ihesu/ Cristi das vns das bilde der Warheit...[Exp.] alsus kumet alle creature et gude mentsche zu notze nu helff vns got zu synem ewigen riche Amen.
   
• The 8th work is incomplete and was crossed out by a contemporary hand; it is identified by Zacour-Hirsch as "Des Moenchs not."
   

Extent

79 leaves : 207 x 141 mm. bound to 215 x 146 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 79 + iii (modern paper); 1-6, [7-79]; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper center; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian saints--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Christian hagiography--Early works to 1800
• Confession--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
• German poetry--Middle High German, 1050-1500
• Humorous poetry, German--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Hagiographies
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, German--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Saint's Life
• Christian
• Paper
• Germany

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Katharinenspiel, f. 1r
• fol. 22r — Van dem scholer van parijss, f. 22r
• fol. 24v — Hymn in honor of St. Catharine, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Legend of St. Alexius, f. 25r
• fol. 30v — Aristoteles und Phyllis, f. 30v
• fol. 48r — The queen of France and the perfidious marshal, f. 48r
• fol. 62r — Ave pr[a]eclara maris stella, f. 62r
• fol. 67v — Monch, f. 67v
• fol. 68r — Marian hymn, f. 68r
• fol. 69r — Preparation for confession, f. 69r