Accession number:
MS M.793
Title:
Gestliche Betrachtungen
Created:
Ulm, Germany, between 1450 and 1499.
Binding:
Original panel-stamped binding in the manner of cuir-ciselé ; brown calf over wooden boards; single clasp on fore-edge; catching on upper cover; bound by Johannes Hagmayer of Ulm, ca. 1475.
Description:
143 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), bound : paper ; 200 x 140 mm
Provenance:
Owned by the von Freyberg family in the 15th century (names of Conrat, Baltaser, Michel inscribed on fol. 123v); Magdalena Müclin, 1612 (pious poem pasted in manuscript); purchased from Gumuchian in 1935.
Notes:
Ms. devotional treatises; written in Ulm, Germany, in the second half of the 15th century.
Written in the Swabian dialect; this manuscript chiefly was purchased for its binding--Cf. PML files.
Script:
cursive script
Language:
German
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