Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Sebaldus, Prior of the Monastery of Kastl, active 15th century
2. New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 39.
3. Benedictine Monastery of Kastl (Kastl, Germany)

Description

1. 457 leaves, bound : paper , ink, manuscript, illuminations; 104 x 75 mm

Alternative title

1. Also known as: Spencer Girdle Book

Subject

1. Catholic Church > Liturgy > Texts
2. Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
3. Girdle books > Germany > 15th century
4. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Germany
5. Manuscripts, German > 15th century
6. Illumination of books and manuscripts
7. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > New York (State) > New York
8. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
9. Breviaries > Germany
10. Breviaries
11. Liturgics > Texts

Genre/Form

1. Manuscripts – German – 15th century.
2. Early works.
3. illuminated manuscripts.
4. Breviaries.
5. Girdle books (Binding) – 1500-1599.

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. MS. 39

Note

1. Written at the monastery of Kastl, near Eichstatt and Nuremberg.
2. Layout: Written in long lines, ruled in black ink.
3. Decoration: 4 woodcuts survive of at least 5: traces of another remain on a stub facing the front pastedown. Red initials, rubrics.
4. Scribe: Sebaldus, prior of Kastl.
5. Script: Gothic cursive.
6. Paper description: Bull's Head, ca. 1430 (Briquet 14779); Greek Cross, ca. 1453 (5549); Column, ca. 1451-2 (4407); Grape, ca. 1451 (13006).
7. f. 402: Finito libro sit laus et gloria Christo. Anno 1454 septima nonas maius [sic] per manus fratris Sebaldi in castello prioris per hanc scripturam ocium devitantis et aliorum utilitati deservientis. Orans in hoc libro memor sit scriptoris propitio.

Access (note)

1. Restricted use.

Indexed in (note)

1. The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005)
2. Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., Suppl.

Cite as (note)

1. NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 39

Language (note)

1. In Latin.

Provenance (note)

1. Written in 1454 by Brother Sebaldus , prior of the Dominican Monastery of Kastl (Bavaria, Germany).

Binding (note)

1. Binding: Girdle book, bound into a pouch of soft doeskin.

Author

1. Catholic Church.

Title

1. Breviary : [girdle book], [between 1450 and 1460].

Imprint

1. Kastl, Germany, approximately 1450.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Access

1. Restricted use. Requires permission for access.

Indexed in:

1. The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005), n. 5.
2. Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., Suppl. p. 332, no. 39.

Cite as:

1. NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 39

Language

1. In Latin.

Provenance

1. Written in 1454 by Brother Sebaldus , prior of the Dominican Monastery of Kastl (Bavaria, Germany).

Binding

1. Binding: Girdle book, bound into a pouch of soft doeskin.

Source of description

1. Part of the description used is from Digital Scriptorium 1.0.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Place of publication

1. Germany Kastl

Added author

1. Sebaldus, Prior of the Monastery of Kastl, active 15th century, scribe.
2. New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 39.
3. Benedictine Monastery of Kastl (Kastl, Germany)

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. MS. 39