Details

Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer books—Germany—Cologne—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Germany—Cologne [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Bookseller

• Hindman, Sandra, 1944- [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 214 [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Hybrida. Written by eight different scribes.
• Decoration: Germany, ca. 1470. The manuscript is illustrated with a series of contemporary woodcuts of uniform style (each approximately 55 x 65 mm), which probably date from around 1470 or later.

Binding note

Germany, 15th century. The textblock is sewn onto 3 double cords, which are laced into a leather (calf ) wrapper with a paper lining; kettle stitch; no end-bands.

Provenance

Princeton MS. 214 is a hybrid book of unknown early and intermediate provenance. It is comprised of a series of booklets containing prayers and other devotional texts. Peter Schmidt and Regina Cermann have localized the present manuscript to the Cologne area, ca. 1470, on the basis of the dialect and a comparison with a hybrid manuscript at Darmstadt (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, ms. 1916). The Darmstadt manuscript, also illustrated with woodcuts from the Gulden Puchlein series, is from an Augustinian convent at Cologne. Most hybrid manuscripts are from southern Germany, often for use in Dominican convents. The antiquarian bookseller Sandra Hindman (Les Enluminures, Paris, Chicago) sold the manuscript to the Princeton University Library in 2010.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 502-505.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 214, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1117884878

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