Väterbuch; Lives of the fathers (DS546) (Q2600)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Medieval and Renaissance 48)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Väterbuch; Lives of the fathers (DS546) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Medieval and Renaissance 48) |
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Hugo, Graf von Walderdorff (1823-1918), who bought it from an antiquarian bookseller in Regensburg before 1874, his Fragm. germ. 1. 2o; by descent to Sotheby’s, 4 December 2007, lot 2, bought by the Lilly Library.
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s. XIV(2/4); 1325-1350
14. century
1325Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Other decoration, One bifolium: Headings in red, initials touched in red; 3-line initial in alternating red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork.
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Script, One bifolium: Gothic Textura.
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Layout, One bifolium: 2 columns, 32 lines, each column 248 mm. by approximately 70 mm. (width varies) with approximately 22 mm. between columns, initials of each line of verse set slightly into the margins; written in dark brown ink.
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Manuscript note: Other leaves of the same manuscript are known in the Landesarchiv in Innsbruck, Hs 21/I (14 bifolia and 2½ leaves), Hs 21/II (a bifolium) and Hs 4079 (a bifolium). The present leaves were discovered and edited by the Graf von Walderdorff in the 1870s, but since his death in 1918 they had disappeared and were assumed to have been lost until their reappearance at Sotheby’s in...
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Bibliography: von Walderdorff 1874, pp. 198-206; Bartsche 1886, pp. 197-206; Hohmann 1909, p. 17; Reissenberger 1914, p. xii.
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One bifolium: Extremely worn, recovered from use as a wrapper around a bookbinding.
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One bifolium: Latin.
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ff. 1-2: According to the census of manuscripts of the Väterbuch in the on-line Marburger Repertorium, the poem is attested by seven substantially complete manuscripts (in Hamburg, Hildesheim, Klosterneuberg, Königsberg, Leipzig, Strasbourg and Vienna) and a number of fragments. The text here concerns the lives of Arsenius (c. 350–c. 445), Roman scholar and tutor to the imperial children in...
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Incipit, ff. 1-2: wart er auch chrutzleich gesunt.
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Explicit, ff. 1-2: Daz wart an im dicke chunt.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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