[Preces]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Preces]
Other titles: Prayer book (Leeds University Library. Brotherton Collection MS 12)
Classmark: BC MS 12
Publication city: [Bavaria, Augsburg?]
Date(s): [ca. 1500-1520]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 v. (iii, 135, iii leaves) (1 column, 15 lines)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372694
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Decoration: 41 full-page miniatures. 3- and 2-line initials in blue and red throughout.
Written in hybrida.
Principal contents: Collections of prayers (ff. 1r-11v, 12r-24v, 25v-87v, 88v-93, 93r-104r, 105r-109v, 110v-112r).
From the library of Lord Brotherton. He had purchased the manuscript from the London book seller Chas. J. Sawyer in the 1920s.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 48-49. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), p. 28.
Features
Bindings
19th-century binding of red velvet with elaborate brass clasps.
Provenance
In 1596 the manuscript was apparently at Überlingen on Lake Constance when ff. 70, 71, and 113-135 were added for J. Reutlinger (written in a good italic hand). Inscription on f. 120v reads: 'Iste liber de Nouo est renouatus et scriptus Per Fratrem Iohannem Singerium, Vberlingensem, Franciscanum, Anno Domini 1596. Die 17 Februarii'. Inscription on f. 135v reads: 'Iacobus Reutlinger Vberlingen: est possessor huius libri anno 1596'.
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