(Q6460)
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De contractibus mercatorum and other legal and theological texts /
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De contractibus mercatorum
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Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438
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Reichskartause Buxheim
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Business ethics--Early works to 1800
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Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
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Manuscript fragments--Kansas--Lawrence
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Kansas--Lawrence
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[between 1426 and 1450]
15. century
1426Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 180 leaves : paper, charts ; 305 x 215 (215-237 x 136-155) mm bound to 315 x 215 mm
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Manuscript composite codex
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Collation: i (paper) + 180 (paper): 1-13¹² + 14¹⁴ + 15¹² (wants 11, 12, possibly blank)
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Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil in upper right corner (1-180), completed on April 6, 1921, according to a note on verso of front flyleaf.
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Signatures: Quires signed 1-15 in red at center in lower margin on the recto of first folio of each gathering by a contemporary hand, possibly one of the rubricators.
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Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in ink by multiple hands in different positions in lower right corner on folios 48v, 60v (in red), 72v (underlined in red), 84v (in red), 108v, 120v, 132v, 144v, 156v, 170v.
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Watermarks: Part 1: Single watermark: a horn (similar to Piccard PPO 7-6-54). Part 2: Single watermark: a horn (similar to what is found in Part 1). Part 3: Single watermark: a horn (similar to what is found in Part 1 and possibly the same with that of Part 2). Part 4: Single watermark: a bull's head with no facial features with a single-line shaft above surmounted by a cross (similar to WZIS...
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Layout: Part 1: Written in 42-43 long lines, above top line. Frame ruled in lead, with full-length vertical and horizontal bounding lines. Part 2: Written in two columns of 43 lines. Unruled except for full-length vertical bounding lines for both columns ruled in ink. Part 3: Written in two columns of 51 lines, above top line. Frame ruled in ink in two columns, with full-length vertical and...
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Script: Written by multiple hands in Gothic cursive.
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Decoration: Part 1: 3-line initials in plain red; paragraph marks in red; sentence initials highlighted in red; marginal rubrics in red; some phrases and rubrics underlined in red; guide letters visible to the left of the initials. Part 2: 2- to 3-line initials in plain red; sentence initials highlighted in red; some rubrics underlined in red; guide letters visible underneath the initials...
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Binding: Fifteenth century, possibly original. Bound in full alum-tawed leather over wooden boards, with three paired single sewing supports and two integral endbands at head and tail (Kapitalbünde) made of cords laced through channels, frayed and adhered to the insides of both boards and secured with wooden pegs. V-shaped notches cut into the turn-ins. Four transverse spine linings made of...
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Origin: All four parts probably written at the Charterhouse Aula Beatae Mariae in Buxheim, Germany in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. Part 2 written by Brother Johannes and completed in 1437: "P[er] me Ioh[ann]em fr[atre]m scriptu[m] a[n]no d[omi]ni 1437." -- colophon, folio 24vb.
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Former shelfmark: MS Z38
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Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS E35
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Related shelfmark: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. lat. qu. 372
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MS E35 contains copies of a number of anonymous or hitherto unidentified works. Item 3 is based on the Quodlibeta by Henry of Ghent. Item 4 is based on the Sententiarum libri IV by Peter Lombard. Items 5 and 6, titled here De consangunitate and De arbore affinitatis respectively, as well as the succeeding diagrams are based on the Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis by Giovanni...
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MS E35 is a composite manuscript, consisting of four parts: Part 1 consists of folios 1-12, Part 2 folios 13-24, Part 3 folios 25-36, Part 4 folios 37-180.
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Dimensions of written area: Part 1: 225 x 136 mm; Part 2: 220 x 147-155 mm; Part 3: 215 x 142-145 mm; Part 4: 220-237 x 145 mm
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In good condition. Evidence of repurposed parchment text guards folded around the first and last gatherings, with stubs present and offset onto the insides of both boards, with text visible which remain unidentified. Both fragments are excised and missing. Evidence of a paper text-hook flyleaf, which might have been pasted on to the front board, with its stub also present preceding the...
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The manuscript comes from the library of the Charterhouse Aula Beatae Mariae in Buxheim near Memmingen, Germany (Reichskartause Buxheim). Ownership inscription in the upper margin on folio 1r: "Buxheim" with a preceding encircled cross. Eighteenth-century label of the library with the contemporary shelfmark of the manuscript adhered to tail of spine: "348." MS E35 is probably the same volume...
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5 September 2023
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5 September 2023
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