Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Devotional miscellany.
Call Number
Princeton MS. 67
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcj9602d98b
Publisher
[Germany] : [producer not identified], [1424?]
Language
Middle High German
Date Created
1424
Extent
1 volume (i, 177, i leaves) : parchment ; 15 cm
Provenance
Princeton MS. 67 is partially datable to 1424. An early ownership inscription of the Dominican cloister of St. Catherine, Nuremberg, is written on the inside front cover. Intermediate provenance is unknown. There are several numbers that may be shelf marks, manuscript numbers, or dealer's marks: on the front pastedown 2157 (ink, early modern?), 671 (red crayon), 45 (pencil), and on the back pastedown 6587/c (pencil). The manuscript was in the collection of Elmer Adler (1884-1962). Adler established and directed the Department of Graphic Arts in the Princeton University Library from 1940 to 1952. The Adler collection was acquired by Princeton University Library between 1945 and 1955.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 267-270.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Script: Hybrida libraria, written by at least eight scribes, consisting of four primary scribes and four contemporary or near-contemporary scribes who added texts onto blank leaves.
Decoration: Red 2- to 4-line Lombard initials at text openings; some red paraph marks; one initial I as a red fish (fol. 119v).
Binding Note
Germany, 15th or 16th century. Brown leather covering original alum-tawed skin over wooden boards, possibly oak (approximately 9 mm thick), beveled on the outside.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, German (Middle High)—Germany
Manuscripts, German (Middle High)—New Jersey—Princeton
Illumination of books and manuscripts

Physical Characteristics

File Count
362

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/23a86b15-9b88-422c-911c-ea07afdb01c2/manifest