Accession number
MS M.763
Object title
Der Renner.
Created
Austria, probably in Tyrol, third quarter of the 15th cent.
Binding
German vellum binding of mid-19th cent.
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Description
263 leaves (1 column, 26-28 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 293 x 207 mm
Provenance
No. 621 in a New York sale, ca. 1870; George E. Leighton, Monadnock Farms; his sale (New York, Apr. 25, 1929) to Rosenbach; purchased from Rosebach in 1930.
Notes
Ms. moralizing verse; written and illuminated in Austria, probably in Tyrol, in the last quarter of the 15th century.
A collection of moralizing tales translated into German by Hugo von Trimberg from various Latin sources around 1300. According to Ehrismann (1908-11), this manuscript belongs to Class 1, Group F: it includes the 6 acts of charity, and lacks Michel von Wurzburg's revisions. Of the 15 extant illustrated manuscripts, this one is particularly close to Darmstadt ULB Hs. 2779; and Innsbruck ULBT Cod. 900.
The illuminator may also be responsible for a panel featuring the Birth of Mary (ca. 1460-80) in Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (GM1180).
Decoration: 30 full-page and 61 half-page miniatures.
The watermark on the paper for most of this manuscript corresponds closely to Briquet 11798 or 11787, which has been localized to Würzburg, 1457 and Berlin, 1447 to 1448--Cf. PML files.
A collection of moralizing tales translated into German by Hugo von Trimberg from various Latin sources around 1300. According to Ehrismann (1908-11), this manuscript belongs to Class 1, Group F: it includes the 6 acts of charity, and lacks Michel von Wurzburg's revisions. Of the 15 extant illustrated manuscripts, this one is particularly close to Darmstadt ULB Hs. 2779; and Innsbruck ULBT Cod. 900.
The illuminator may also be responsible for a panel featuring the Birth of Mary (ca. 1460-80) in Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (GM1180).
Decoration: 30 full-page and 61 half-page miniatures.
The watermark on the paper for most of this manuscript corresponds closely to Briquet 11798 or 11787, which has been localized to Würzburg, 1457 and Berlin, 1447 to 1448--Cf. PML files.
Script
German bastarda
Language
German, Tyrolean dialect
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