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1. Add Ch 12731

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Title:
Acknowledgement of the supremacy of Baldwin, archbishop of Trier, by Gerlach of Limburg, Kunegunde, his wife, and Gerlach, their son
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement of the supremacy of Baldwin, archbishop of Trier, by Gerlach of Limburg, Kunegunde, his wife, and Gerlach, their son. Endorsed: in an 18th-century hand, ‘Gerlach herren von Limburg, Cunegunde pri…[illegible] gunir / Gerlach von Limburg, isr altustur vosn / Rudolfo graf von Werch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1344-1345
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add Ch 12733

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Title:
Sale by Katherine von Solmesse and Salentin, lord of Isenburg, her husband, to Baldwin, archbishop of Trier
Scope & Content:
Sale by Katherine von Solmesse and Salentin, lord of Isenburg, her husband, to Baldwin [von Luxembourg, r. 1307-54], archbishop of Trier, of Mergenhusen, Maybrode and Beringerhusen. Affixed with 7 seals. The first, a fine seal of Salentin, oval, brown, with a heraldic shield with two bars, the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1346
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Add Ch 37381

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Title:
Grant by Agnes Kamlerin and Barbara Regensburgerin to Hans Schmuckhner of land in Enns, Austria, for the benefit of the sick poor
Scope & Content:
Grant by Agnes Kamlerin, burgess, of Steyer, Upper Austria, and Barbara Regensburgerin, burgess, to Hans Schmuckhner, town councillor of Enns, master of the sick poor there, of lands in Enns for the benefit of the sick poor. Given June 1559. Endorsed: in a contemporary 16th-century hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Jun 1559
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add Ch 74114

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Title:
Will of Elizabeth Ayrer, widow of Sebald Neyrer of Nuremberg
Scope & Content:
Certified copy of the will of Elizabeth Ayrer, widow of Sebald Neyrer of Nuremberg, certified by the Burgomeister and council of Nuremberg. Affixed with a very fragmentary and indistinct seal, lozenge, red. Decoration: Large initials in black with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1534
Extent:
1 document

5. Add MS 11430

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Title:
Margareta Ebner, Offenbarungen, and related texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the German nun and mystic Margareta Ebner (b. 1291, d. 1351). From 1311, Ebner was renowned for having experienced a series of spiritual visions, which she later recorded in her Offenbarungen (Revelations), composed between 1344 and 1348. The volume contains a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1744-1747
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 15103

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Title:
Collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by Martha Felderin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-228r: a collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by the scribe and nun Martha Felderin, beginning with an incomplete list of contents (f.1r) and ending with a colophon (f. 228r). ff. 1v, 106v-107v, 197v and 228v are blank. Decoration: Large initials in blue with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1488
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 15686

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Title:
The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-33r: The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare, a German translation of the Regula sororum sancta Clarae, promulgated by Pope Urban IV, 18 October 1263, written for the nuns of St Clare of Villingen, Swabia; ending with a Latin colophon, 'Explicit regula Sancte Cla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 16950

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Title:
Gradual, Cistercian Use ('The Seligenthal Gradual')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Hymns (beginning imperfectly). ff. 4v-166v: The Temporal, from the first Sunday in Advent (beginning 'Ad te levavi') to the 23rd Sunday following Pentecost (beginning 'Dicit dominus ego'), including the Litany (ff. 100r-102v). ff. 167r-237r: The Sanctoral, from St Step...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 18311

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Title:
Rules of St Augustine for the government of nunneries
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: A letter from Heinrich von Lichtenau (b. 1444, d. 1517), Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, imposing the Augustinian rule on the monastery of St Ulric, Dillingen, dated 23 June 1512; written in German, beginning, 'Wir heinrich von gottes gnaden Bischoff zu Augspurg...' ff. 2r-35r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1512
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 21072

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Title:
Census of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a census of lands granted and leased to St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, an order established for former sex-workers. The entries are arranged by parish, each listing the property’s grantor, its extent, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume