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Unidentified mystical treatise (MS B.57).

Accession number
MS B.57
Object title
Unidentified mystical treatise (MS B.57).
Display Date
between 1475 and 1525.
Created
Germany, between 1475 and 1525.
Binding
Limp vellum with ties.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Description
86 leaves (1 column, 13-15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 133 x 96 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Nov. 1968 from William Salloch, Ossining (cat. 258, no. 19).
Notes
Ms. written in Germany, late 15th or early 16th century.
Incipit: Wir lesen von einem saeligen menschen der her got lieb und war ein dienner gottes und der begert von got das er im kuent taete wie er sein leben hie in der zeite solte richten....
Decoration: 1 illuminated initial.
Script
Gothic cursive
Language
German
Century
Classification