National Library of Sweden, A 79
Statutes of the General Chapter of the Birgittine order in Gnadenberg (Marienbaum) Abbey 1487
Germany, 1487, 13 September
parchment
10 leaves
340 × 275 mm
Latin
f. 10v blank.
A full copy of the text (including the colophon) can be found in Stockholm, National Library, MS A 11, fol. 83r-88v. See also the letter attached to Stockholm, National Library, MS A 92.
Secundo folio
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Condition
Textblock
Some stains and dirt, mainly in outer margins and corners.Additions
Textblock
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in brown ink.
(f. 1r): Opening initial ‘W’ with reserved interior shapes and penwork in brown ink; first word, ‘WILHELMVS’, in display script extending c. 3 lines above the text.
(f. 10r): Flourishes and notarial sign of the scribe in brown ink: standing on a two-tiered platform flanked by flourishes, a six-pointed star mounted on a stand; points of star filled in with brown ink, one dot in each unfilled section; inside the border of the top tier of the platform, the letter ‘S’; inside the border of the bottom tier, the name of the scribe: ‘Johannes Vogt’.
Binding
Binding 1
Medieval binding. Undecorated parchment leaf. Leaves sewn through spine with a contemporary plaited cord of green, beige, and pink multi-ply strands (see ff. 5v–6r). Top left corner of LCO, the date of accession in pencil: ‘20/404’; below in brown ink: ‘IIII’; top centre in a late medieval/early modern hand: ‘Capitulum generale sub Innocentio papa VIII’; top right: smudged note in pencil (‘Rosenthal’?); below, remnants of paper book label, and in pencil, the accession number: ‘10’; centre page, a note in pencil, difficult to make out (a name?); bottom left, year and accession number in black ink: ‘1904/10’; bottom left, in brown ink by a medieval hand: ‘K⟨loster⟩marienb⟨au⟩m’.
Binding 2
Modern binding. Marbled paper on cardboard. The medieval booklet is attached inside with white string around spine and center fold. On modern cover (see Overview), title of work in black ink on a white label and stamped in gold underneath: ‘A 79’. In upper left corner of front pastedown, the modern bookmark of the National Library.
Provenance
Acquisition
Purchased by the National Library 1904-04-20 for 100 marks from Antiquariat Jaques Rosenthal, Munich.
- Krämer (1989), p. 398.