Prayer book of Erasmus von Wolfstein, canon of Bamberg (DS16976) (Q70621)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (13404380, Codex Ms. 1717, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13404380)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Prayer book of Erasmus von Wolfstein, canon of Bamberg (DS16976) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (13404380, Codex Ms. 1717, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13404380) |
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Manuscripts, German--Illinois--Chicago
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Illinois--Chicago
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approximately 1535-1536
16. century
1535Gregorian
1536Gregorian
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Extent: 59 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 129 x 75 (97 x 55) mm
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Manuscript codex.
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Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century paper) + 59 (foliated 1-50, 50-58) + ii (19th-century paper); 12 28 36 4-54 610 72 88 94 1011 [including 50 bis]; no catchwords or signatures.
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Layout: Written in single column on 22-23 lines; no ruling visible.
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Script: Written in dark brown ink in a small flourished cursive bookhand (fraktura), calendar in italic and humanistic scripts.
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Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures; f. 26v, Nativity, with angels and shepherds in the border; f. 32, Mass of St. Gregory; f. 37v, Six of the seven corporal works of mercy: clothe the naked, feed the hungry, visit the sick, give water to the thirsty, visit the imprisoned, and shelter the homeless (the seventh work, which was not illustrated here, is to bury the dead); f. 41v, Man kneeling in...
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Binding: 19th-century pink velvet over pasteboards; silver fittings c. 1900 that comprise a center piece of a putto embracing a lion on the front cover, a youth wearing a laurel wreath playing a harp on the back cover, and four putti attaching two pairs of clasps (clasps lost); flat spine; decorative endpapers in red with gilt ornament of floral tendrils surrounding a man holding a cat by the...
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Origin: The manuscript was made for Erasmus Graf von Wolfstein (d. 1539), canon of Bamberg, c. 1535-1536, possibly in Bamberg itself, or elsewhere in Southern Germany. Erasmus is depicted in prayer with his coat of arms d'or, au deux lions de gueules on f. 25. The table for calculating the date of Easter (ff. 14v-15) begins with the year 1536, suggesting that the manuscript was copied then or...
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Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms1717.
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The last biographical note on f. 3v was added by a different hand in 1554. It mentions Augsburg. In addition to his position in Bamberg, Erasmus von Wolfstein was also a canon in Augsburg, and it is possible that he gave the manuscript to a canon there. Modern booksellers's notes, verso of the first front flyleaf.
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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