Vet. D1 f.405
Heinrich Vigilis von Weissenburg (?), Von der wahren Einkehr; Germany (Eichstätt? probably at Kloster Marienstein), February 2, 1520; bound with printed book, 1516
Contents
The first part ends on f. 97, “... und der heilig gaist Amen. Deo gracias. xx iar am liechtmess tag”, and the second part begins on f. 102, “Unser liebster herr ihesus der unser wares leben ist …”). Fols. 97v-99v, 100-101v, 219v blank.
The parts were bound in an inversed order already in the sixteenth century. This is demonstrated by the note written in a later sixteenth-century hand on the blank page facing the beginning of part 1, confirming that it is the first part and was written first: “Das hie vor geschrieben ist der ander teil des einkers. Das nachfolgendt ist der erst tayl und ist im pinden versehen und versezt worden” (f. 219v according to modern foliation).
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
Single column of 18-20 lines, no ruling visible.
Hand(s)
Written in brown ink in Gothic hybrid bookhand perhaps by Ottilia Helt (see Provenance)
Decoration
Rubrics (often in Latin) underlined in red; capitals touched in red, red paragraph marks, title on f. 1 in red.
One 5-line puzzle initial (f. 102) and one 6-line puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 1).
Binding
Modern binding of brown morocco over (original?) wooden boards, blind-tooled with fillets, spine with three raised bands, two pairs of clasps and brass catches with interlace knot decoration, original flyleaf with an ownership inscription (see below) survives pasted to the modern front pastedown, small portions of original flyleaves (reused fifteenth-century manuscript leaves) are bound within the book at the end, modern cardboard case with labels pasted on the spine and front are inscribed “Friderich Peypus ... Wurtzgertlein der andechtigen übung... Nürnberg, 1516 + handschriftliche Homilie”.
Accompanying Material
Bound with printed book, Disz Büchlein genant das Wurtzgertlein der andechtigen Übung, [Nuremberg], Friderich Peypus, [1516], with 6 full-page woodcuts. VD16 W 4578
History
Provenance and Acquisition
A hybrid book combining a text printed in Nuremberg and dated March 24,1516, in the colophon (sig. m8), with a work in manuscript, dated at the end of the first of its two parts on f. 97, “xx iar am liechtmess tag,” i.e. (15)20 Candlemas day, February 2, very likely copied soon after the acquisition of the printed text.
An original flyleaf, pasted on the modern front pastedown, bears the ownership inscription “S(uor) Ottilia heltin profess in mariastein” of Sister Ottilia Helt of the Kloster Marienstein in Eichstätt. The hand of the inscription is very similar to that used for the manuscript, suggesting that Sister Ottilia Helt copied the manuscript herself at Kloster Marienstein. The Kloster Marienstein was founded around 1460 and adopted the rule of St. Augustine.
Modern booksellers’s notes, first front flyleaf.
Les Enluminures, TM 1210 (archived)
Purchased by the Bodleian, 2023, in memory of Professor Nigel Palmer.
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2024-08: First online publication.