Collection for a female religious community (Dominican nuns?) following the rule of St Augustine; Germany, c. 1395

Title

Collection for a female religious community (Dominican nuns?) following the rule of St Augustine; Germany, c. 1395

Shelfmark

MS. Germ. e. 5

Place of origin

Germany

Date

13th century, late, or 14th century, early

14th century, late, mainly 1395

Language

Latin

German

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper; three watermarks: steer's head, not in Briquet or Piccard, steer's head, similar, though not identical, to Briquet 14667 (Orleans 1385), steer's head, not in Piccard, identical to Briquet 14093 (Regensburg 1393–96), of the variant without eyes (cf. the full entry for 14093: vol. II, p. 715).

Physical extent

i (modern paper) + 106 leaves.

Hands

Textualis. Mostly one hand (fols. 1r-7r, 9r-99v), with contemporary additions by two other hands (fols. 7r-8v, fols. 100v-105r). Hand 3 with some cursive forms.

Decoration

Plain initials in red (rarely, red-and-black) sometimes with modest decoration.

Rubrication varies according to the text; see above.

Binding

Contemporary binding: sewn on three double/split cords and bound in white pigskin over wood boards, with strap-and-pin fastening (top to bottom; pin missing); thread place-markers attached to the tab at the head of the spine; see also under Provenance

Acquisition

Bought, 1922

Provenance

Provenance unknown, presumably a community of female religous (Dominican nuns?) following the rule of St Augustine. Dialect of SW Germany (Nigel Palmer, personal communication, Oct. 2020)

'Die regel mit der ausslegung .56.' inscribed on the spine in a 15th-cent. hand; a perhaps similar inscription, now mostly illegible, is on a paper label on the lower board.

On inside front cover: (top left) '117' in blue pencil, and in 19th century hand, 'Manuscript aus dem 14. Jahrhundert'.