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Add MS 11430
- Record Id:
- 032-002109194
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109194
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000040.0x00027b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176736672.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11430
- Title:
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Margareta Ebner, Offenbarungen, and related texts
- Scope & Content:
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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 an 18th-century copy of Ebner's Offenbarungen, as well as one of her prayers and a collection of letters, many addressed to her by her mentor Heinrich von Nördlingen (fl. 14th century), a German Catholic priest from Bavaria. These items are followed by two Lives of Ebner, one written by Sebastian Schletstter and dated 1662, the other by Eustace Eysenhuet, dated 1668. The final text is a set of excerpts relating to Margareta Ebner, taken from two works by the German poet Samuel Faber (b. 1657, d. 1716).
For a full description and discussion of the manuscript's contents, date and origin, see Federer, Mystische Erfahrung im literarischen Dialog (2011), pp. 405-36.
Contents:
Inside upper cover: an added description of the manuscript and brief account of its acquisition by Johann George Burckhard Franz Klosz (b. 1787, d. 1854), a doctor from Frankfurt, written in German.
f. 2r: An ink drawing of the Choir of the Margareta-Ebner Chapel in the Maria Medingen monastery as it was before 1753, featuring a bird's eye view of Ebner's tombstone, embedded in the ground, with the following inscription in Latin: '+ ANNO . DOMINI . MCCCLI + PROXIMA . DIE . POST . FESTUM . SANCTORUM . GERVASII . ET PROSTASII . BEATA . MARGARETA . EBNERIN . OBIIT.'
ff. 3r-46v: Margareta Ebner, Offenbarungen, beginning, 'In dem suzzen namen unsers herren Jhesu cristi und in sinem warhaften leben...'
ff. 47r-48v: Margareta Ebner, Pater Noster, beginning, 'Hie hebet sich an der Ebnerin pater noster...', and ending with a colophon, 'Diz buch gehort in das closter zu medingen Prediger ordens'.
ff. 49r-71v: A collection of letters addressed to Margareta Ebner, beginning, 'Hye volgent nach ain abgeschrifft Etlicher andechtiger santt brief, die der selligen mutter swester Margaretta Ebnerin gesant sind worden...' and ending with a colophon, 'Disz ist auz geschriben An Sant lucas aubent des hailigen Ewangelisten in dem lxxxviii jar bitten got fur die schriberin mit einem Ave Maria Schwester Margaretha Bitterlein etc.'
ff. 72r-92r: A Life of Margareta Ebner, by Sebastian Schletstetter, dated 1662, beginning, 'Dedicatio. Der Wohl. Ehrwurdigen in Gott Frauen, Frauden Sybilla Lindenmairin...'
ff. 93r-126r: A Life of Margareta Ebner, by Eustace Eysenhuet, dated 1668, beginning, 'Kurzer- Begriff Dess Wunderlichen Lebens, Heroischen Tugenden...'
f. 127r-v: A set of excerpts relating to Margareta Ebner, taken from two works by Samuel Faber, 'Planinto und Hortensia' and 'Aufrichtige Lebens-Beschreibung Hn. Johann Paul Ebners', dated 1690-1691.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109194
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002109194
- 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_100176736672.0x000001
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- Languages:
- German
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1744
- End Date:
- 1747
- Date Range:
- 1744-1747
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 325 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 127 (+ 2 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 2 + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 46 + 13 unfoliated paper leaves after ff. 48 and 71 + 7 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 92 + 8 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 126 + 9 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: 18th-century Kurrent.
Binding: Post-1600. Cardboard binding with marbled covers, probably from the library of Johann George Burckhard Franz Klosz.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Nuremberg, Germany.
Provenance:
Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach (b. 1673, d. 1752), German diplomat, historian and book collector: probably commissioned by him between 1744 and 1747 and housed at his private library, the Bibliotheca Ebneriana (on the manuscript's dating and origin, see Federer, Mystische Erfahrung im literarischen Dialog (2011), pp. 405-36); sold in 1819 at the fifth auction of the Bibliotheca Ebneriana, to an unidentified owner.
Johann George Burckhard Franz Klosz (b. 1787, d. 1854), German doctor and book collector: his bookplate (inside upper cover); according to his own handwritten note in the manuscript (inside upper cover), he acquired it at a book auction organised by the Nuremberg bookseller Johann Jacob Lechner (b. 1796, d. 1851), 2 July 1827, lot 2191; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 4571 (see Catalogue of the Library of Dr Kloss (1835), p. 324); purchased by the bookseller Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849).
John George Cochrane (b. 1781, d. 1852), Scottish editor, bibliographer and librarian: acquired the manuscript in 1837; listed in his catalogue, A Second Catalogue of Manuscripts (London, 1837), no. 326 (see note, f. [i] recto).
Purchased by the British Museum for £2 from Evan's, 27 July 1838, lot 1223 (see note, f. [i] recto).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Library of Dr. Kloss [...], including many original and unpublished manuscripts and printed books with ms. annotations, by Philip Melanchton, Sotheby and Son (London: 1835), p. 324 (no. 4571).
John Cochran, A second catalogue of manuscripts, in different languages... of various dates, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century... now selling ... at the prices affixed, etc. MS. prices (London: 1837), p. 109 (no. 326).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), no. 11430.
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (Erlangen, 1901), II, p. 111 (no. 128).
Margaretha Ebner und Heinrich von Nördlingen: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Mystik, ed. by Philipp Strauch (Freiburg: Mohr, 1882), pp. xvii-xxii.
Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz, 'Georg Kloss und seine Handschriftensammlung', Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte, 22 (1997), 1-48 (p. 15; no. 4571).
Urban Federer, Mystische Erfahrung im literarischen Dialog: Die Briefe Heinrichs von Nördlingen an Margaretha Ebner (Göttingen: Walter de Gruyter, 2011), pp. 406-36.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)