#Ruling width medieval manuscripts skin

In comparison with the records pertinent to the seventeenth-century rebinding exercise and an inventory of the library from 1924, some 37 paper manuscripts in 49 volumes, or 17% of the total stock of paper manuscripts rebound in 1678, are no longer in the abbey collection (see Schweighofer, 1958, p. Given that broader context and the particular academic content of this manuscript, it is probable that it was not first copied at Altenburg, but acquired in the course of the fifteenth century, perhaps by donation.Ģ.

These were books either purchased by the abbey or donated by former students of the University of Vienna (see Schweighofer, 1958, p. The books from the Altenburg library dating to the mid- to late fifteenth century were, to judge by surviving colophons, much more frequently copied by individuals external to the abbey than produced within it. The manuscript’s production post-dates the devastation that Altenburg suffered from Hussite attacks in 14, which also marked the end of a period of active book production in Altenburg itself (see Schweighofer, 1958, pp. (For an example of an Altenburg binding of 1678, see Online Resources below on the rebinding itself, see Schweighofer, 1958, pp. The abbot represented in the central roundel is St Lambert of Maastricht, the founder of Altenburg. This is the work of Ludwig Conradt in Vienna, who was contracted in 1678 to rebind the entire library of the Benedictine abbey of Altenburg near Horn in Lower Austria.

#Ruling width medieval manuscripts skin

The blind-stamped white alum-tawed skin re-used in the restored binding reveals, in the central roundel, the figure of a saintly abbot (a tonsured figure with halo holding a crozier).

The watermarks present in the paper stocks indicate a date of production for the manuscript, conservatively, in the period c.1427-38, assuming paper to be used within two to three years of its production, and most likely in the early to mid-1430s.īy the seventeenth century the manuscript was certainly owned by the Benedictine Abbey of Altenberg in Austria, but it was likely in their library as early as the fifteenth century. 1427-1438 as supported by the evidence of the script and watermark. This early copy of the text is securely localized to the Benedictine Abbey of Altenberg in Austria. The text is rare on the market (only one sale, from 1972, recorded in the Schoenberg Database). 1433), who led a distinguished career not only at the University of Vienna, but in the service of Duke Albrecht of Austria. It is by the influential theologian Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl (d. The unusual text in this manuscript, which pairs a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew with scholastic questiones (questions) on the same text, is unedited and largely unstudied. Bound in blind-stamped and tooled white alum-tawed skin over thick card boards, 20 th-century work re-using the outer skin of an earlier seventeenth-century binding (see below, Provenance), with green fabric ties, sewn on four cords, without endbands, modern paper pastedowns. in width, outline frames ruled only, red rubrics, 3- to 4- line red initials, ff.

I + 495 + i leaves on paper, in folio four watermarks present in the paper stocks: (a) a pair of the type Piccard, Ochsenkopf, VI 279 (1429-1436), alone in quires i-ix, xvi-xvii, xxi, xxiv-xxxi and xxxviii-xliii, mixed with (c) in quires xix-xx and xxii-xxiii (b) a pair most similar to the types Piccard, Ochsenkopf, XI 117+118 (1430-36) and XI 132+133 (1432-34), in quires x-xv (c) a pair of the type Piccard, Ochsenkopf, VI 257 (1419-36), in quires xix-xx and xxii-xxiii, always mixed with (a) (d) a pair of the type Piccard, Ochsenkopf, XIII 34+35 (1427-35), alone in quires xxxii and xxxiv-xxxvii, mixed with (a) in quire xxxiii, modern foliation in pencil, top, outer corner, collation, lacking at least six leaves (i 8 ii-vi 12 vii 11 viii-xii 12 xiii 13 xiv 12 xv 11 xvi 11 xvii 9 xix-xxii 12 xxiii 10 xxiv-xxviii 12 xxix 10 + xxx 11 xxxi-xxxii 12 xxxiii 11 xxxiv 11 xxxv 11 xxxvi-xxxvii 12 xxxviii 11 xxxix 12 xl 11 xli-xliii 12), copied by two hands, both forms of the semi-hybrida libraria, the first (ff.