SERMONS ON GOSPEL TEXTS

MS 723
MS Short Title SERMONS ON GOSPEL TEXTS
Text SERMONS ON GOSPEL TEXTS, STARTING WITH MARK 16:1
Description MS in Latin on paper, Erfurt, Germany, 7 November 1436, 4 ff., 21x15 cm, 2 columns, (18x12 cm), 39-42 lines in a German cursive book script, by Mauricius, preacher, 13-line initial with red and brown penwork filling extending the length of the margin.
Binding Germany, 15th c.(?), in a wrapper from a ruled, blank medieval vellum leaf, stitched.
Context
Provenance 1. Preacher Mauricius, Thüringenwald? (1436); 2. Carthusian Monastery of Mons Sancti Salvatoris, Erfurt (1436-1803); 3. Erik von Scherling, Rotulus II 3/4(1932):1461; 4. Bernard Rosenthal Collection, San Francisco, I/? (until 1987); 5. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1147(1991):99.
Commentary Colophon recording that "- the MS was completed by Mauricius preacher of the upper church in the mountains of "thnt" (perhaps Thüringerwald), on the day of St. Willebrord (7 November) 1436".
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Place of origin Germany
Dates 1436 AD