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Subject(s)

• Commonplace books—Germany—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• German literature—Middle High German, 1050-1500—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Literature, Medieval [Browse]
• Manuscripts, German—Germany [Browse]
• Manuscripts, German—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Germany [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Bookseller

• Christie, Manson & Woods [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 220 [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Cursiva libraria, by one scribe.
• Decoration: None.

Binding note

Tacketed into a stiff modern paper wrapper, with a parchment sewing guard between fols. 7v and 8r.

Language note

In German and Latin.

Contents

• 1.1r-v: German story (“Des morgens wann ich fruwe off sten tzo tzwingen mich die sorgen ... du hast gesungen altzoviel.”) and a poem (“Mich frauwet frauw din eynigez wort ... bedenkt daz hertze myn.”).
• 2.2r-7r: Rules and grants concerning ecclesiastical benefices under the antipope John XXIII (r. 1410-1415) during the Western Schism (“Isti sunt modi vacandi beneficiorum. Primus siquis possidet beneficium ... promoueri ad curatum beneficia”).
• 3.7v: List of German ecclesiastical provinces and their dioceses (“Nota quod Germania habet 6 metropolitanos, scilicet Maguntinum, Coloniensem, Treuerensem, Bremensem, Magdeburgensem, Salzburgensem ... Salzburgensem habet suffraganeos”).
• 4.8r-9v: List of gratiae for ecclesiastical officials and secular rulers, granted by the antipope John XXIII (r. 1410-1415) during the first week of his reign.
• 5.9v-12r: Lyrics for five German songs, interspersed with three related melodies written in Hufnagelschrift on 5-line staves.
• 6.12r-v: A bawdy poem or song concerning the sexual exploits of Henry the cripple (“Henrice curvumpedie quid facis pirgamenie intrauit solitarie in domum ... quod fortiter merdarie herundrie et herundrie[?] et cetera”).
• 7.12v-13r: Macaronic poem written as prose, in German with occasional Latin words. In the poem, a Beguine boasts of her sexual encounters with a monk (“Venite sprach ein zarte begine | ich han gegeben daz leben myne salutari nostro ... wann sie hat mir gemaht freude gross alhie in minem schos secula seculorum. Amen.”).
• 8.13v-14v: Transcription of a grant by John XXIII in favor of Johannes Altmann of Udenheim, a poor cleric of the diocese of Speyer (“Johannes episcopus seruus seruorum dei dilectis filiis episcopo uel proposito ... datum et cetera.”).

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Provenance

Princeton MS. 220 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance. It was probably the commonplace book of a minor cleric, as attested by the inclusion of rules governing church livings. It is possible that the manuscript was kept by Johannes Altmann of Udenheim, who is referred to in the final document (fols. 13v-14v). Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript in 2011 at Christie's, London.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 510-511.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 220, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1118513091

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