[Latin miscellany]

Name:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430; Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429; Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397; Johannes, de Tambaco, 1288-1372; Nicholas, of Dinkelsbühl, approximately 1360-1433; Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1437

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Buch- und Kunstantiquariat F. Dörling (Hamburg), 1955.

Subject:

Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules -- Early works to 1800; Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules; Music -- Early works to 1800; Music theory -- Early works to 1800; Music theory; Sermons, Latin; Music

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; treatises; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

263 leaves : paper, illustrations, music; 147 x 111 mm bound to 154 x 109 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1v-58r: Regula / Saint Benedict. -- 2. f.58v-60v: Musical intervals and scales. -- 3. f.63r-186r: De consolatione theologie / Johannes de Tambaco. -- 4. f.187r-191v: Sermo de vanitate / St. Augustine. -- 5. f.192r-196v: Excerpta ex orologio sapiencie / Henricus Suso. -- 6. f.197r-206r: De proprietate monachorum / Heinrich von Langenstein. -- 7. f.207r: Treatise on rondeaux, ballades, virelais, etc. -- 8. f.207v-216v: De musica [with diagrams] -- 9. f.217r-233v: Confessionale / Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl. -- 10. f.235r-261r: De diversis temptationibus / Johannes Gerson.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Paper, 263; [1-263], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by multiple hands.; Decoration: Decorated initials with penwork ornamentation throughout, most in red ink, some in red and ochre, with an especially elaborate example (f. 64v); musical diagrams in red, blue, and black ink (f. 215v, 216r).; Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with clasp intact; many wormholes in binding.; Origin: Written in Germany in 1437 (f. 58r) and subsequent years, in a variety of hands.; First folio is torn at the top; folio appears to have been torn out between f. 234 and f. 235 with no apparent loss of text.; Description by JoAnn Taricani (typescript, 1970s?) is in the library's file.; Latin.; Related Work: Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 614