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

Title

Summa de casibus conscientiae, III-VI

Authors

• Astesano, -1330? (http://viaf.org/viaf/61907403)

Other related names

• Steynbach, Nicolas, former owner
• Nivardus, F., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 431/24
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenbach)

Publisher

The Rosenbach

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Southern Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a southern German copy, dated 1452, of books 3 through 6 of the confessional manual by the fourteenth-century Franciscan Astesano, with reference tables at the end of the volume. Its binding, also mid-fifteenth-century, is by Johannes Fogel of Erfurt, Thuringia, incorporating multiple stamps used by Fogel, including one of his name. The text is written in two columns of forty-eight lines of Gothic cursive script and has minimal ornamentation, mostly in red ink.

Notes

• Contemporary numbers indicating the book within the larger work, upper right recto
   
• Finding tabs of dyed leather mark the beginning of books 4-6 and two alphabetical tables at the end of the volume (fols. 102, 150, 224, 378, 408)
   
• Dampstaining at lower edge
   
• Parchment guards at the center of quires
   
• Small pieces of blank or scrap paper, possibly bookmarks, between fols. 95-96; 144-145; 175-176; 200-201; 228-229; 339-340
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14549 (1469, Bamberg)

Extent

416; 318 x 205 mm bound to 350 x 230 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; a leaf between 378 and 379 is foliated as 378a

Collation

1-7 (12), 8 (11, +1), 9 (6, +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6), 10-35 (12), 36 (3, +1 +2 +3)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Catchwords visible lower right last verso for quires 1 (fol. 12v, in gutter) and 5 (fol. 60v, mostly trimmed)

Binding

Fifteenth-century blind-stamped and -tooled binding of pigskin over beech boards by Johannes Fogel, Erfurt, Thuringia; remnants of clasp; later inscription in ink on spine, Manuscripta Juris; front pastedown is detached at fore edge, allowing the front board and the turn-ins of the front cover to be seen

Layout

Two columns of forty-eight lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in lead; written area: 235 x 145 mm

Decoration

Seven-line initials in red at the beginning of major textual divisions; three- or four-line initials in red at the beginning of sections; running book numbers in upper margins in blue and red; paragraph marks and underlining in red; initials touched with red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century inscription, Nicolas Steynbach, Franciscan, inside back cover; woodcut bookplate (1790) of F. Nivardus, abbot (1786-1803) of the Cistercian abbey of Bildhausen, diocese of Würzburg, inside front cover; damaged leather bookplate with four initials ending in HG, inside front cover; paper label with number in ink, C5/1001, inside back cover; purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt, 1925
   

Related resources

• Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum. A Selection from Our Shelves: Books, Manuscripts, and Drawings from the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum (Philadelphia: Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1973), no. 8.
• Goldschmidt, E. P. Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings (London: Benn, 1928), I, p. 134.

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Original binding
• Gothic
• Notable binding
• Tables
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber III
• fol. 102r — Liber IV
• fol. 150r — Liber V
• fol. 224r — Liber VI
• fol. 378r — Tabula de expositione vocabulorum difficilium
• fol. 398r — Tabula
• fol. 407v — Tabula

Decorations

• Front pastedown — Bookplate, F. Nivardus, 1790
• fol. 7r — Manicule
• fol. 31v — Manicule
• fol. 102r — Ten line decorated initial E
• fol. 150r — Seven line decorated initial E
• fol. 224v — Seven line decorated initial E
• fol. 378r — Seven line decorated initial C