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German textual miscellany (MS M.782).

Accession number
MS M.782
Object title
German textual miscellany (MS M.782).
Display Date
between 1450 and 1460.
Created
Augsburg, Germany, between 1450 and 1460.
Binding
16th-century German white pigskin over beveled boards, blind-tooled; one remaining clasp with initials M.G.; panel design formed by five different rolls; bound by Mathias Gärtner (Gerttner) of Augsburg.
Description
309 leaves (2 columns, 29-33 lines (fol. 1-148); 1 column, 29-33 lines (fol. 149-309v)), bound : paper, ill. ; 270 x 200 mm
Provenance
Prince Öttingen-Wallerstein at Maihingen (Codex I, 3 (Deutsch) fol. 6; his sale, Munich, Karl & Faber, May 11, 1934, lot 73); purchased from Jacques Rosenthal, Art Ancien, Zurich in 1934.
Notes
Ms. textual miscellany; written and decorated in Augsburg, Germany, between 1450 and 1460.
Paper watermarked with oxhead (Briquet 14.548), scales (Briquet 2467) and crowned column (Briquet 4408)--Cf. PML files.
Texts: Spiegel der menschlichen Behältniss (Speculum humanae salvationis) (fol. 1-91), lacking first page of text; Todsünden (the Seven virtues and vices) (fol. 95-118v); Ars bene moriendi (fol. 119-132v); title to the Alexanderbuch (fol. 133-139v); Johann Hartlieb's prefatory summary to the Alexanderbuch (fol. 141-148); blank (fol. 148v); the Alexanderbuch (fol. 149-309v).
Scribe: Völckhardus Landsberger von Kaufbeuren; signed on fol. 91, 118v, 132v, 309v.
Decoration: 231 pen drawings tinted with watercolor and 1 uncolored drawing.
Artists: Jörg Mülich and Hektor Mülich.
The illustrations to the Speculum were adapted for the woodcuts illustrating the edition printed by Zainer at Augsburg in 1473; the representations of the Virtues and Vices were generally adapted for the Bämler edition of 1474; the Alexander magnus illustrations were copied partially in reverse in the woodcuts of the Bämler edition of 1473 and also in the edition printed by Schott at Strassburg in 1493-Cf. PML files.
Related manuscripts: Munich, BSB, Cgm 581; Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. guelf. 81.32 Aug. 2°.
Script
textura
Language
German, the Swabian dialect
Century
Classification