Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira
Classmark: BC MS 101
Creator(s): Paulus a Mercatello(Author); Guilielmus Brito(Other); Moneliensis, Franciscus; Paul of Burgos (1351-1435); Döring, Mathias (1400-1469); Nicholas, of Lyra commentator (1270-1349); Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480); Johann von Köln (1471-1491); Herbort, Johann (1484); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)
Related people: Nicholas, of Lyra
Publication city: [Bamberg, Germany]
Date(s): [1453-1454]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (449 leaves) (2 columns, 44 lines)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/pxgp4tk3
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372706
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
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.
Features
Bindings
Contemporary binding of pigskin over wooden boards, five metal bosses on each cover, two strap-and-pin fastenings, a chain of four links attached to the top edge of the back cover.
Provenance
Most probably belonged to John of Helb, who founded the chained Pfarrbibliothek at Ebern, near Bamberg, in 1463. For details, see the description by Ker. In 1878 the manuscript was sold with the rest of the Ebern library to Friedrich Böhm, a Munich bookseller.
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