tin00223000

Text-inc Id:

tin00223000

Bod-inc Id:

N-103

Headings:

Nider, Johannes Die vierundzwanzig goldenen Harfen.

Analysis of content:

1. [*2v] ‘Register'.
2. [*3v] [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘[S]i in cuiusquam latini viri manus liber . . .’ The note mentions Johannes Nider as translator ('Hansen Nyder prediger Ordens zu Nürnberg'). See Dahmus, ‘Fifth-Century Monastic Wine', 243-4.
3. [a1r] [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘[H]ie hebt sich an das aller nüczlichest . . .’ The note mentions ‘Hansen Nÿder prediger Ordens zu Nüremberg'; see N‑102.
4. [a1r] Nider, Johannes: Die vierundzwanzig goldenen Harfen. Incipit: ‘[S]anctus Johannes der ewangelist schreibt in dem bůch der heimlichen . . .’ Explicit: versteet man wol/d3 got ze dienen leicht ist. Amen A revision and German translation of Johannes Cassianus, Collationes patrum. See N‑102.

Imprint:

Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 18 Dec. [14]72. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁴ a–i¹⁰ k⁶ l⁶⁺¹ m–q¹⁰ r⁴⁺¹]. Woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00223000 H *11847; Goff N‑223; BMC II 331; Pr 1601; BSB‑Ink N‑178; Schramm III pp. 1 and 25; Schreiber V 4849; Sheppard 1191. LCN: 14468617

Copies:

1. N-103(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [*1], and [*4] containing the woodcut of the Elders in adoration. Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with an early manuscript title at the head of the spine and red-edged leaves. Two clasps and catches lost. Triple fillets form the outer frame, within which is a decorative roll. Within the following frame is a foliate roll. Within the inner frame is a different decorative roll with faces within cameos. Vertical triple fillets divide the inner rectangle into two rectangular compartments, each decorated with the decorative roll of the outer frame. Size: 248 × 185 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 240 × 172 mm. Marginal notes, partly erased, in German, mainly extracting key words, in an early hand. Monogram ‘JN' on front pastedown; also found in N‑095. On [a1r] a seven-line German initial ‘S' is supplied in blue with white pen-work decoration on a square gold ground with punch dotting, within a segmented red and green frame. On the same leaf, a foliate and floral border is supplied in red, green, white, blue, grey, with gold dots. Principal initials are supplied in blue or green with red pen-work decoration; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Woodcut initials coloured in red, blue, or green. Provenance: Augsburg, Bavaria, Discalced Carmelites, S. Anna; erased inscription on [*2r]: ‘Ex libris Carmelit: discalceat: Augustae'. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837); armorial book-plate and signature on the front pastedown, signature on the rear endleaf; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 230, for £0. 4. 0: see Books Purchased (1837), 27. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q inf. 1.43.