Consecration tablet. Made of a parchment sheet pasted on a wooden board and framed. It commemorates the consecration of a private chapel and altar in the Berneck Castle, near Kauns and Landeck, in the Austrian Tyrol, on 4 July 1482.
Script: Hybrida libraria, with cursive influences.
Decoration: Miniature in ink and gouache, depicting a member of the Von Rindsmaul family of the Austrian Tyrol, lords of Berneck Castle, kneeling before St. Bartholomew.
Contents
1.1r: “Anno a navitate Christi millesimo quadringentisimo octoagesimo secundo, in die sancti Vdalrici confessoris, Consecrata est presens capella cum altari in Castro Perneckh Brixinensis dyocesis, a reuerendo in christo patre domino Conrado episcopo bellinensi ...” Explicit: “... quadraginta dies indulgentiarum de iniunctis penitentiis.”
Provenance
Princeton MS. 96 originally hung in the private chapel of Berneck Castle, near Kauns and Landeck, in the Austrian Tyrol. In the late 16th or early 17th century, someone wrote out a German translation of the Latin text in a cursive hand on a piece of paper and placed it on the verso of the board. Gift of Frank Jewett Mather (1868-1953), Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, to the Princeton University Library in 1946. (Acc. no. AM 13224).
Source acquisition
Gift; Frank Jewett Mather, 1946.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 312-313.
Cite as
Princeton MS. 96, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
OCLC
1109948028
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