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Add MS 15103
- Record Id:
- 032-002086796
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002086796
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x0001a7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165142659.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15103
- Title:
- Collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by Martha Felderin
- Scope & Content:
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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 red and/or green pen-flourishing. Large and small initials in red or blue ink, some with pen-flourishing.
Rubrics, underlinings, marginal notes, and running chapter numbers in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002086796
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002086796
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165142659.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1488
- End Date:
- 1488
- Date Range:
- 1488
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper and parchment (ff. 2, 12, 21-22, 33, 35, 38, 41, 52-53, 62-63, 74-75, 86-87, 98-99, 118-119, 130-131, 141, 152-154, 165-166, 177-178, 189-190, 201-202, 212-213, 223 only).
Watermark: a high imperial crown, surmounted by a cross, similar to Briquet No. 4891 (Briquet, Les Filigranes (1968), No. 4891), dated to Lansberg, Germany (1480).
Dimensions: 315 x 210 mm (text space: 220 x 145 mm), written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 228 + 100* + 133* + 202* + 213* (+ 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. 32 + 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); ff. 100*, 133*, 202*, and 213* are paper leaves.
Script: Gothic cursive, written by Martha Felderin.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Medlingen, Germany.
Provenance:
This manuscript was made by the German scribe and nun Martha Felderin in 1488 for the Dominican monastery of Medlingen: see the inscribed colophon, 'Item Das buch Jst usz geschriben worden an der octa[vo] omnium Sanctorum do man zalt Nach unsers lieben herren geburt Mcccco und Jn dem lxxxviij Jar vnd hat es geschriben Schwester Martha felderin zu nutz gem gotz husz zu Madlingen bregier orden' (f. 228r).
A former inventory or lot number, 'No. XI', 'Bose', and the date 'August 8/31' (f. [vii] verso).
Purchased by the British Museum from the London bookseller Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), 13 April 1844: see inscribed note (f. [viii] recto).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), 1844, p. 87.
John W. Bradley, A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, p. 325.
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (in 1 vol.) (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1979), II: Das British Museum mit einem Anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek (first publ. as 2 vols, Erlangen, 1896-1901), pp. 123-24.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: The British Library, 1979), I, no. 115.
Anne Winston-Allen, 'Making Manuscripts as Political Engagement by Women in the Fifteenth-Century Observant Reform Movement', Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, 42:2 (2016), 224-47 (p. 232).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)