Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira
Description
Continuous contemporary foliation at foot of each recto leaf. Decoration: 2 to 8-line initials in red. Running titles, rubrics, and some underlining, in red. Capitals touched in red. Geometrical drawings in red and the ink of the text. The pastedowns are from a 14th-century paper manuscript of theological questions, written in German cursiva in two columns, over ca. 53 lines. Strips of 11th-century (?) parchment have been used to secure the sewing in the middle of each quire. Written in German cursiva, by a Bamberg scribe naming himself as 'Nicolaus notulista'. Vellum tabs mark the beginnings of each new book of the Bible. Principal contents: ff. 1r-344v Nicholas of Lyra's commentary on the Bible, with additions by Pauli Burgensis (dated at end 'Anno etc' liii°'); ff. 345r-449r Nicholas of Lyra's commentary on the Psalter, with additions by Pauli Burgensis (dated at end 'Anno etc. liiii°'). From the library of Lord Brotherton. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 62-63. 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), pp. 4-5; E. G. Krenig, 'Nachrichten zur ehemaligen Pfarrbibliothek in Ebern', in: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch, xii (1960), pp. 296-299; and S. Krämer, 'Neue Nachrichten über die ehemalige Pfarrbibliothek von Ebern', in Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch, xxviii (1976), pp. 36-47.
Metadata
| Identifier | pxgp4tk3 |
| IRN | 372706 |
| Class Mark | BC MS 101 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pxgp4tk3 |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection) |
| Creator(s) | Paulus a Mercatello, Guilielmus Brito, Moneliensis, Franciscus, Paul of Burgos, Döring, Mathias, Nicholas, of Lyra commentator, Jenson, Nicolas, Johann von Köln, Herbort, Johann, Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron |
| Date | [1453-1454] |
| Size and Medium | 1 v. (449 leaves) (2 columns, 44 lines) |