Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in Germany.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
MS 130: Astronomical collection, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 130
Scope and Contents
Collection of astronomical texts in German.Kalendar: starts on f. 1v. It contains lunary and planetary tables combined. Saint particulalrly linked with Germany appear in the Kalendar: 6 January – The Three Kings (Cologne); 7 January – Saint Valentine Bishop (Passau and Apostle of Rhoetia); 15 June – Saint Vitus Martyr; 13 October –: Saint Kolman Martyr.Küngsperger: starts on f. 13v. A series of tables, one for each of the...
Dates:
15th century
MS 138: Composite manuscript including seventeen texts, c 1455
Item
Identifier: MS 138
Contents
MS 138 contains many small texts and fragments bound together, by different hands. This manuscript belonged to the Carthusian monastery at Erfurt, and seems to have been compiled initially in the mid-15th century. The evidence of the inclusion of various texts in different hands indicates that this volume was taken up and added to by different inhabitants of the monastery at Erfurt. The texts are described separately, but are generally quite fragmentary and difficult to...
Dates:
c 1455
MS 146: Summa de casibus conscientie by Bartholomew of San Concordio, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 146
Contents
MS 146 is a text by Bartholomew of San Concordio (a small town near Pisa). Bartholomew was a mid 13th-14th century Italian Dominican canonist who produced two notable works, one of which is copied in MS 146. The Summa de Casibus conscientie is an alphabetically arranged work on canon law. It was widely disseminated in the medieval period, as it is particularly practical in comparison to many other existing manuals of medieval canon law, and it presents a...
Dates:
15th century
MS 147: Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 147
Contents
This manuscript contains nine main texts in several hands, although the last section itself is made of various notes written by different people. The whole text has been annotated by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt, which could mean this volume was his personal handbook at some point.f. 1r: List of Contents, written by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt.ff. 1v-2v: Tract on the...
Dates:
15th century
MS 153: Composite manuscript containing three texts, 1459
Item
Identifier: MS 153
Contents
Contains three treatises by John Haghen, written by the scribe John Rössler and annotated by John of Haghen himself.ff. 1r-178r: 'Expositio privilegiorum Ordinis Carthusiensis'ff. 178r-264r: 'Expositio aliorum privilegiorum ejusdem Ordinis'ff. 265r-329v: 'Tractatus de Vita et Regimine Clericorum'The texts are described separately, under the folio headings listed above. Writing A good, uniform...
Dates:
1459
MS 164: Medical text by Petrus Musandinus, 12th century
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Identifier: MS 164
Contents
This text is entitled Liber medicinae secundum Petrum de Musandia ('Second book of medicine of Peter Musandinus'). Petrus Musandinus was a 12th-century physician from the school of Salerno. Musandinus was probably the student of another important Salernitian physician and writer, Bartholomeus of Salerno who produced a commentary on the collection of Hippocratic medical texts fundamental to medieval medicine: the Articella. Petrus Musandinus himself produced a...
Dates:
12th century
MS 210: Composite volume containing eighteen texts, printed and manuscript, late 15th century, 1490
Item
Identifier: MS 210
Scope and Contents
This volume of German origin is partly printed, partly manuscript. Both the printed and manuscript parts date from the very late 15th century, around 1490. It contains mostly grammatical and rhetorical treatises.f. 1r: table of contents (contemporary) [MANUSCRIPT].ff. 2r-43v: Modus Latinitatis by Ulricus Ebrardi [PRINTED].ff. 44r-127v: ...
Dates:
late 15th century; 1490
MS 213: Sermon by Arnoldus Creveterodt, 1521
Item
Identifier: MS 213
Contents
This manuscript contains a sermon by Arnoldus Creveterodt [or Crevecerodt]. Little is known of him and of this sermon, expect for what is said in the colophon, which reads: ‘This sermon was composed by lord Arnoldus Creveterodt [or Crevecerodt], Augustinian bishop in Meissen and suffragan of Hildesheim, which he delivered in the benediction of the Lord of the abbot of the monastery of Saint Michael, on the day of the ten thousand martyrs of 1521.’The colophon on f. 1r reads:...
Dates:
1521