Lectura super firmiter credimus / Konrad von Soltau. De miseria humanae conditionis / Innocent III and others

Item Information

Title:
Lectura super firmiter credimus / Konrad von Soltau. De miseria humanae conditionis / Innocent III and others
Description:
Incipit registrum dubiorum.../Quid sit fides.../...in mense novembri bernhardus etc. Deo gratias. / Explicit apparatus super arbor consanguinitatis et affinitatis. Completus anno domini 1448 per manum hermanni knevellynthusen promissarum in Ruden tunc temporis.
Creator:
Konrad, von Soltau, Bishop of Verden, 1350?-1407
Scribe:
Knevellynthusen, Hermannus
Contributor:
Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216
Former owner:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Former owner:
Kloster Bredelar (Bredelar, Germany)
Contributor:
Lateran Council (4th : 1215 : Palazzo Lateranense)
Date:
1448
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
Gothic scripts
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Inscriptions
Embossed stamps
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800
Ethics, Medieval
Dream interpretation--Early works to 1800
Divine office--Sermons--Early works to 1800
Consanguinity (Canon law)--Early works to 1800
De contemptu mundi
Places:
Germany > North Rhine-Westphalia > Rüden
Extent:
122 leaves : paper, ill. ; 285 x 212 mm (210 x 150 mm) in box 31 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cc08md64c
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Ruden?]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. i-iii verso: Registrum Dubiorum. Incipit registrum dubiorum.../Quid sit fides.../...Ita me deus adiuvet et sancti eius (index keyed to fol. 1-88).
2. fol. iv-iv verso: Firmiter Credimus (First decree of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215) Firmiter credimus et simpliciter confitemur.../...placentes deo ad aeternum merentur beatitudinem pervenire.
3. fol. 1-88: Konrad von Soltau, Lectura super Firmiter Credimus. Firmiter credimus et simpliciter confitemur./ Ortodoxam fidelium solidum et primum omnium virtutum.../...Ad quam leticiam nos perducat trinitas individua in secula seculorum benedicam. Amen.
4. fol. 88-89v: (unedited). Sequitur sompnia danielis.../ Incipiunt sompnia danielis per eum.../ Aerem serenum videre lucrum. Arcum tendere vel sagittas.../...Et sic est finis sompniorum ex prophetis danielis excerptorum et verissimorum etc.
5. fol. 90-95v: Sermo de horis canonicis (unedited). Sermo de horis canonicis legendis/ Sepcies in die laude.../...concedat deus in secula seculorum benedictus amen.
6. fol. 96-96v: blank (late 15th century notation on 96v)
7. fol. 97-112: Innocent III (as Cardinal Lotario de' Conti di Segni), De miseria humanae conditionis.
8. fol. 112v-122: [Apparatus super arbor consanguinitatis] (unedited). [N]otandum est circa arborem consanwinitatis.../...in mense novembri bernhardus etc. Deo gratias. / Explicit apparatus super arbor consanguinitatis et affinitatis. Completus anno domini 1448 per manum hermanni knevellynthusen promissarum in Ruden tunc temporis.
9. fol. 122v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written by Hermannus Knevellynthusen in Rüden (Prussia, now NW Germany), 1448. See colophon on fol. 122.
Related titles: Registrum dubiorum, Firmiter credimus, Somnia Danielis, Sermo de horis canonicis, Apparatus super arbor consanguinitatis
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: 17th-century ex libris, fol. 1, "Liber bibliotheca bredelarensis," the Cistercian abbey of Bredelar, also in NW Germany.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired from Sydney Cockerell in 1901 (see his notes inside front cover).
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I:919
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: An in morte christi corpus...
Collation: Paper, two watermarks: grapes (similar to Briquet 12995), bull's head similar to Briquet 15097., fol. 122 ; 1⁶⁻² (two cancels before fol. i) 2-11¹² 12⁴⁻²² (two cancels after fol. 122) ; most catchwords trimmed, some extant in lower right corner final versos (e.g. fol. 86v); original arabic foliation begins on folio 1 (after four preliminary leaves) with "1", in center outer margin of each recto, using German numeric forms; modern arabic pencil foliation every 25 leaves, begins with fol. i and thus reaches 127 instead of 122.
Layout: Two columns, 39 lines. Ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a gothic cursive (fol. i-iv verso and 121 written by a second hand on same paper stock) in brown ink with red rubrics in a gothic bookhand.
Decoration: Each section begins with an 8-10 line initial in red with brown filigree and light brown overwash, with the first few lines of text enlarged in a red Gothic bookhand. Consanguinity and affinity diagrams on fol. 112v, 114v, 116 and 118v, in black and red.
Binding: Original boards covered with alum-tawed sheep, originally white but now browned. Covers decoratively scored, flush with bookblock, straps extant, clasps on front cover lacking, no pastedowns (exposed channels), joints weakening, original German-braided endbands. Housed in tan cloth clamshell box.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 61.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018636
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.13
MS G.401.12 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090770932