Henricus Suso, Horologium sapientiae

Austria?, 1395

Paper

i, 95, i' leaves

205 × 135 mm

Latin

1 (pp. 1–189) Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae

Rubric: ⟨Inc⟩ipit prologus in ho⟨rolo⟩gium Sapiencie ⟨ca⟩pitulum primum

Incipit: SEntite de domino in bonitate et in simplicitate cordis querite illum

Explicit: te regem glorie dominumque virtutum in decore suo conspicientes ihesum christum dominum nostrum qui cum patre et spiritu sancto viuit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum Amen

Colophon: p. 189aExplicit horologium Sapiencie Anno Domini Millesimo Trecentesimo nonagesimo Quinto Completum in Die Quatuor Coronatorum hora quasi Conpletorii vivat qui scripsit viuat qui scribere iussit \per manus fratris Tilmanni pie memorie/

Edition: Künzle (1977).

Physical Description

Secundo folio

Hoc inquit Fratres

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, f. SL1, SR1, RCI

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 205 × 135 mm

Textblock

Locus: pp. 1–190

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 205 × 135 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: pp. 1–190,

Motif: Bull's with eyes, nostrils, and ears; above, single line rod ending in star.

Note: Similar to the group of watermarks in Piccard II:2, VII.

Foliation

Modern pagination in pencil (page number on every recto). pp. 1–9: modern foliation in black ink in the bottom right corner.

Collation

Formula: 1-7(12), 8 (12, lacks 12)

Note: VisColl collation.

Catchwords: Catchwords at the end of each quire, except for quire 4.

Condition

Textblock

Paper stained throughout with some effect on legibility, e.g. pp. 5–6. p. 1: dark and stained, which indicates the manuscript may have been stored without binding for some time. In the corners there are holes with rust stains, which partially bleeds through to p. 7. Edges trimmed, with some loss of marginal additions. pp. 40–190: holes from bookworms. Leaves repaired and strengthened with paper strips in places, e.g. p. 2 and p. 23.

Layout

Columns: 2

Written lines: 36

Written area: 155 × 105 mm

Script

Textblock

Description:

Gothic cursive.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top of page, in pencil and red crayon by a modern hand: ‘18 ??’; ‘7OC’; ‘?ü? 18X CM’; ‘10 4’; in black ink by a modern hand: ‘Inköpt från F. Butsch i Augsburg Juni 1870 för 3 fl. 30 kr Katal. LXVIII n. 222.’; bottom left corner: National Library book label with current signum.

(f. SL1r) Centre page: National Library stamp.

(f. SR1r) Bottom right corner, in red crayon and pencil by a modern hand: ‘10 9 54’, ‘ ~~30. 3. 54~~ ’, ‘W J. Th’, ‘C. G?’.

(RCI) Bottom right corner, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘10/9/5h W 6 Y’.

Textblock

(p. 1) Upper part of page, around the rubric: traces of writing by a later hand in dark ink; bottom page: letters in red ink, only partially legible due to trimming.

(pp. 33–160) Scattered corrections in the margin by the scribe and at least one other hand. Occasional manicules in the margin, e.g. on (p. 72).

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in brown ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red.

Initials:

(p. 1): opening plain initial ‘S’ over 8 lines in red;

(pp. 4–187): plain initials over 3-5 lines in red, some with interior reserved shapes.

Binding

Description:

Modern binding. Cloth and marbled paper over cardboard. Spine, ink on paper label: ‘Suso Horologium aeternae Sapientiae’; stamped in gold: ‘A 162’.

Binding dimensions: 210 × 145 × 20 mm

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

Austria?, 1395. See colophon on p. 189. Künzle argues that the manuscript may stem from a Cistercian monastery in Austria (see Künzle (1977), p. 178). Earlier, Lehmann had argued that the manuscript might have been written in a Dominican monastery in Soest (Lehmann (1935), pp. 125–126). An addition to the colophon states that the text was written by ‘brother Tilmann’.