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Egerton MS 1927
- Record Id:
- 040-001982848
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982847
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000116.0x0001b2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 1927
- Title:
- Baptismal register of the church of St Theodor, Basel
- Scope & Content:
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The first of two baptismal registers of the church of St Theodor, Basel. This volume records baptisms during the years 1490-1625.
Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar in Latin. Printed, with rubrics in red.
ff. 7r-7v: Ceremonies performed in preparation for use of the baptismal font, comprising: the blessing of the salt ('Exorciso te creatura salis per deum...vivos et mortuos et seculum per ignem. Amen') followed by a prayer ('Immensam clemenciam tuam...impugancione spiritalis nequicie'); the blessing of the water ('Exorciso te creatura aqua...vivos et mortuos et seculum per ignem. Amen') followed by a prayer ('Deus qui ad salutem humani...impugancionibus defensa'); the blessing of the salt and water together ('Deus invicte virtutis...adesse dignetur') followed by a prayer ('Exaudi nos omnipotens Deus...in hoc tabernaculo'). Printed, with rubrics in red.
The printed leaves have been taken from a Missale Basiliense (Basel: [Michael Wenssler, 18 March 1488) (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue no. im00651500). The British Library holds a copy at IB.37136.
(Three blank, unfoliated leaves).
f. 8r: Note by Johann Ulrich Surgant, curate of the church of St Theodor, Basel, regarding the preparation of this book for the recording of baptisms at his church; dated 1490. Below, two baptisms have been entered.
(One blank, unfoliated leaf).
ff. 9r-31r: Baptisms for 1491-97, in Latin.
(Three blank, unfoliated leaves).
f. 32r: Title for births and baptisms for 1503, followed by autograph samples by Augustinus Lautenwang, Wolfgang Wissenberg and others.
ff. 33r-370r: Baptisms for 1529-1625. The first entry for 1529 is written in Latin; all thereafter are written in German. Some words/notes in Hebrew on ff. 254r, 255r, 312v.
f. 370v: Later notes in pencil.
ff. 371r-391v: First index of entries for 1541-1606.
ff. 392r-402r: Second index of entries for 1541 onwards.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982847
040-001982848 - Is part of:
- Egerton MS 1927-1928 : Register of baptisms in the parish of St. Theodor, Basel, 1490-1737
Egerton MS 1927 : Baptismal register of the church of St Theodor, Basel - Hierarchy:
- 032-001982847[0001]/040-001982848
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Egerton MS 1927-1928
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_1927 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
Hebrew
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1490
- End Date:
- 1737
- Date Range:
- 1490-1737
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 220 mm.
Foliation: i + 402 (plus eleven blank, unfoliated leaves, as follows: two at the beginning, three after f. 7, one after f. 8, three after f. 31, one after f. 385 and one at the end). Folio i is a small square of paper pasted onto the second front endleaf, containing a description of the manuscript in Latin and French. Folio 154* is a partially torn-out leaf after f. 154.
Script: Secretary and Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Pre-1600. Swiss, late 15th-century. Oak boards, the spine and one-third of each board covered with blind-stamped pigskin. Remains of two brass clasps.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Basel, Switzerland.
Provenance:
Johannes Ulricus Surgant, curate of the church of St Theodor, Basel: inscription of his name by his hand, f. 8r.
The Church of St Theodor, Basel: entries continued by successive clerics up to 1625.
J. J. Brun (d. 1861), priest of St Theodor, sold together with his library in 1861.
Purchased by the British Museum from M. Henri Tross of Paris, 12 October 1861: note on recto of second front endleaf.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCLIV-MDCCCLXXV, 2 vols (London: by order of the Trustees, 1877), II, p. 913.
Christina Hallowell Garrett, The Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism (Cambridge: University Press, 1938), pp. 81, 156.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)