[German religious and literary miscellany]

Alternate Title:

Katherinenlegende

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Middle High German, 1050-1500

Date:

1400

Description:

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.

Language:

German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500); Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1955.

Subject:

Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint; Alexius, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; 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; German poetry; German poetry -- Middle High German; Humorous poetry, German -- Early works to 1800; Humorous poetry, German; Confession -- Catholic Church; Christian hagiography; Christian saints -- Prayers and devotions

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); hagiographies (literary genre); hymns; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance; prayers (compositions); devotional literature

Physical Description:

79 leaves : paper; 207 x 141 mm bound to 215 x 146 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1-22r: [Katharinenspiel], 958 verses. -- 2. f.22r-24r: Van dem scholer van parijbeta, 109 verses. -- 3. f.24v: [Hymn in honor of St. Catherine], 56 verses. -- 4. f.25r-30r: [Legend of St. Alexius], 279 verses. -- 5. f.30v-47r: [Aristoteles und Phyllis], 854 lines. -- 6. f.48r-61v: [The queen of France and the perfidious marshal], 678 verses. -- 7. f.62r-67r: [Sequence] Ave preclara maris stella, 268 verses. -- 8. f.67v: Monch [The monk], 25 verses. -- 9. f.68r-68v: [Marian hymn], 86 verses. -- 10. f.69r-78v: [Preparation for confession], prose.; 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.; Work 4 is not identical with any of the versions printed or described in H. F. Massmann, Sanct Alexius Leben, Quedlinburg, 1843.; Work 8 is incomplete and was crossed out by a contemporary hand; it is identified by Zacour-Hirsch as "Des Moenchs not."; 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.; Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.; Decoration: Red used for initials and capital strokes.; Binding: 18th-century calf.; Origin: Written in the lower Rhine, possibly Cologne, in the first half of the 15th century.; Middle High German, Rhenish (Middle Franconian) dialect.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 824