Manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The first 6 gatherings of the manuscript section (f. 1-72) contain 86 hymns and prayers in Latin with interlinear German, each followed by a German translation, including Conditor alme siderum (f. 1r), Veni redemptor genitum (f. 1v), Criste redemptor omnium (f. 7r), Ave maris stella (f. 14v), Veni creator spiritus (f. 38r). Some of the Latin texts in this section have numerical notations above words. The sequence Ave praeclara maris stella, with Latin and German text intermingled, has been added by another hand on the last leaves of this section (f. 70v-72r). The last gathering of the manuscript section (f. 73-86), in a different hand and slightly different format, contains 30 hymns in Latin all with numerical notation above words in the text and with marginal commentary. Notes by later hands are dated 1556 (f. 86r) and 1553 (last flyleaf). Printed works precede and follow the manuscript section. An edition of the Liber florum beati Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis printed in Augsburg in 1519 comprises the first half of the volume. Editions published in 1515 in Leipzig by Melchior Lotter of the Stella clericorum, an anonymous 13th-century pastoral handbook, and the Secreta sacerdotum by Heinrich von Langenstein, follow the manuscript section.
Purchased, 1959; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.; Gift of R. D. Jo[hannes?] Heussius to the Jesuit house at Oettingen (Altötting), 1603 (inscriptions on title page of first printed work).
Publisher:
[Germany], [1475-1499?]
Relation:
Stella clericorum.; Liber florum beati Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis.
86 leaves : paper; 210 x 152 (150 x 89) mm bound to 219 x 172 mm
Personal Name:
Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397. Secreta sacerdotum.; Lotter, Melchior, approximately 1470-1549, publisher.
Rights:
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Notes:
Collation: Paper, 86; 1¹²(-1+1) 2-6¹² 7¹⁴; [1-86], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Origin: Manuscript section written in Germany in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Ms. codex.; Layout: Written in 29 long lines; Latin texts are written on alternate lines with interlinear glosses.; Binding: 16th-century pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch) over spine and inner half of wooden boards with a pair of metal catches and bases for straps.; Decoration: 2- to 4-line initials and rubrics in red throughout; initials in text touched with red.; Script: Latin written in a Gothic hybrid script and German written in a cursive script, by at least 2 hands (f. 1-72, 73-86).; Latin with German interlinear glosses and translations.
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