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Commonplace book : manuscript, [between 1450 and 1534]

Title
Commonplace book : manuscript, [between 1450 and 1534]
Place of Origin
Germany
Description
Extent: 1 v. (71 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
print
Subjects
Abstract
1. Hans Rosenplüt, poems about wine (ff. 1r-2v) -- 2. Weather predictions, notes on the plants and months in Latin (3r-4v) -- 3. Heinrich von Mügeln, "Ain lied de quattuor complexionibus" (9v-10r) -- 4. Hans Rosenplüt, additional poems (15v, 34v, 38v, 39r, 62r-71r) -- 5. Christmas play with pen and ink figural illustrations (22r-26v) -- 6. Pen and ink diagram (30v) -- 7. Dietrich von Zengg, OFM, revolutionary prophecy (42r-46r) -- 8. Heinrich von Langenstein (attrib.), prophetic vision from 1401 (46r-50v) -- 9. Hermann von Salzburg [Mönch von Salzburg], a Corpus Christi song, "In korns weisse" (53r-55r).
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval-Germany-1450-1500.
Commonplace books-Germany-15th century.
Maxims.
Poems-Germany-14th century.
Proverbs.
Recipes.
Drawings-Germany-15th century.
Manuscript waste.
Scribal corrections.
Cut manuscripts (partial works)
Straps (fasteners)
Early works to 1800
Notes
Begins: "Nun griess dich got du edels getranck."
Written in Germany in several unidentified hands in littera bastarda with headings and colored initials in red.
The poems are dated by Eckehard Simon to 1444-1476.
Recipes in German and Latin written in a later hand and dated 1534.
Also contains proverbs, maxims and medical recipes.
Bound in old wood boards with new pigskin spine.
Includes 2 envelopes with related material.
MS Ger 74. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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