Bible (Die Oxforder Bibelhandschrift) in two volumes; Germany (Nuremberg), 1441–1442

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Title

Bible (Die Oxforder Bibelhandschrift) in two volumes; Germany (Nuremberg), 1441–1442

Shelfmark

MSS. Bodl. 969-70

Place of origin

German, Nuremberg

Date

1441–1442

Language

German

Latin

MS. Bodl. 969

(fols. 1r–5v) Later endleaves; blank, except for two provenance notes:

(fol. 3v) A sheet of paper pasted onto the leaf; it may well have been associated with the former binding; in 17th century hand, in black ink.

(fol. 4r) Written in a late 17th century hand onto the manuscript itself.

(fols. 6r–14r) ⟨Alexander de Villa Dei (?)⟩ Summarium Bibliae, Genesis to Wisdom

(fols. 15r–377r) Bible, Genesis to Wisdom

(fol. 377v) Fol. 378r-379v ruled, blank.

(fols. 380r–385v) Later endleaves, blank.

MS. Bodl. 970

(fols. 1r–5v) Later endleaves, blank

(fols. 6r–18v) ⟨Alexander de Villa Dei (?)⟩ Summarium Bibliae, Ecclesiasticus – Revelation

(fols. 19r–322v) Bible, Ecclesiasticus – Revelation, with Jerome’s prologues

(fols. 323r–326r) List of readings according to the missal

(fols. 329r–334v) Later endleaves, blank

Hands

Cursive by one hand, Heinrich Kunn of 'Slewecz' at Nuremberg (vol. I, fol. 377v, and vol. II, fol. 322v).

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 156)

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

Binding

Dark red leather, with five heavy ornamental bosses of brass on each side and double leather clasps with brass attachments, German work of about A.D. 1700. Two outer cases of leather on millboard (measuring 18 3/8 × 14 in., with gold ornament, 18th cent. English work) bear the arms: quarterly, 1st and 4th az. three mullets, 2nd and 3rd gules a lion rampant crowned holding in his fore-paws a banner with the cross of St. George, over all an escutcheon crowned bearing or three martlets. The whole is surmounted by a marquis's coronet, the supporters are eagles, and below is the collar of some order from which is pendent an elephant carrying a castle and driver.

Acquisition

Purchased in 1797 for £21 10s.

Provenance

Colophons, Vol. I, fol. 377v, and vol. II, fol. 322v (see below).

Stoltzer family of Steudentiz, 16th and 17th centuries. A long note on vol. I, fol. 3v 'Georgius Stolcerus' of Steudenitz in A.D. 1623 relates that the two volumes had been for more than eighty years in the Stolzer family

Musis Pauli Gryphii sacer anno MDcliix (vol. I, fol. 6) and Musis Pauli Gryphii consecr: in Herrendorff anno MDCliix (vol. II, fol. 6)

Dr. Godofredus Bose of Leipzig, according to a note by Franciscus Julius Lütkaus in vol. I, fol. 4.

His brother, Gaspar Bose, according to a note by Franciscus Julius Lütkaus in vol. I, fol. 4.

Given by Bose to Franciscus Julius Lütkaus in 1699, according to a note by Lütkaus in vol. I, fol. 4.

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