Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sermones quadragesimales

Authors

• Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298 (http://viaf.org/viaf/100198644)

Other related names

• Hildebrand Bradenburg, former owner
• Carthusian monastery of Buxheim, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/137254675)
• Force, Juliana, ‡d 1876-1948, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/72193679)
• Gordan A. Block, Jr., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 1174/14
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Bopfingen, Württemberg, Germany

Summary

This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century copy of Jacobus de Voragine's Sermones quadragesimales, which notably contains one of the earliest extant examples of a printed bookplate, that on Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach, circa 1480.

Notes

• Ex-libris of Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach: an angel supporting a shield vert, charged with an ox argent
   
• Parchment guards in the middle of every quire
   

Extent

Vi+240+i; 213 x 147 mm bound to 218 x 156 mm

Foliation

Foliated in contemporary ink, near-center top of recto; Letter C is used for 100 and CC for 200 in combination with arabic numerals

Collation

1-20 (12)

Signatures

Signatures throughout, every twelve leaves beginning folio 13r, lower middle on recto

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Catchwords throughout, every twelve leaves beginning folio 12v, lower right on verso

Binding

Bound in fifteenth-century sheepskin; front cover lined with leaf from an earlier antiphonal; metal bosses and two clasps; past on first flyleaf is the ex-libris of Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach, considered the oldest German woodcut bookplate

Layout

Single column thirty-three to thirty-four lines; frame-ruled in pencil, pricking visible; no line ruling; written area; 150 x 101 mm

Decoration

One large initial C with ornamental penwork (fol. 1v); red three-line initials (including some written on their sides) throughout; red touches throughout

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Hildebrand Bradenburg, gifted to Buxheim in 1480; Juliana Force (sold Parke-Bernet, 17 May 1943, no. 338); gift of Gordan A. Block, Jr., 1956
   

Keywords

• Collection of Sermons
• 15th century
• German
• Gothic
• Germany
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate of Hildebrand Bradenburg of Biberach, an angel supporting a shield vert, charged with an ox argent
• fol. 1r — Ten-line initial C with ornamental penwork
• fol. 36r — Marginal notation
• fol. 54r — Marginal notation