Current Location: In storage
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Zaehnsdorf
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Description
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii modern paper flyleaves + 154 fols. + iii modern paper flyleaves, 319 x 223 (239 – 251 x 165 – 174) mm, 37 – 38 long lines, ruled in hard point, written above top line (except fols. 1 – 6 and 153 – 154, 61 – 63 long lines, ruled in ink, written below top line), running headers, quire marks, leaf lost between fols. 26 – 27.
BINDING: c.1900, brown leather over pasteboard, by Zaehnsdorf
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 6v St Jerome, Prologue, Desiderii mei and Gn i – xxiv:32 (fourteenth-century replacement of original text); fols. 7r – 152v Bible, Gen xxiv:32 – Iudic xxi:8; fols. 153r – 154r End of Iudic and Ruth (fourteenth-century replacement of original text).
DECORATION: Contemporary drawing of dog in black ink in upper margin of fol. 67r; later crayon sketches in lower margins of fols. 58r (king enthroned holding scepter, labelled Hic levi) and 76v (two horses).
ORNAMENTATION: Capitals in black ink [3 – 4 ll.]; one-line verse initials coloured in blue and yellow washes; red penwork initials [2 – 6 ll.] and capitals highlighted in red in fourteenth-century additions (fols. 1 – 6, 153).
Notes
History note: Premonstratensian abbey of St Peter at Augia minor, Weissenau, diocese of Konstanz (fourteenth-century inscription: Iste liber est sancti Petri in Augia Minori, fol. 154v); seventeenth-century ex-libris: Minoraugiensis Bibliothecae (fol. 1r); Bonaventura Brem, last abbot of Weissenau (d.1818), armorial bookplate containing mitre and initials B.A.Z.W. (Bonaventura Abt zu Weissenau) inside upper cover (cf. Berlin, SBPK, MS Lat. Qu. 761-765; Fingernagel 1991, I, 99); Thomas Bateman (1821 – 1861) Middleton Hall, by Youlgrave, Derbyshire (armorial bookplate inside upper cover); to his son, William Bateman; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 – 31 May 1893, lot 264; purchased by Frank McClean (1837 – 1904); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1904)
by
McClean, Frank
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