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Missal, with music, for a Benedictine nunnery

by Jean Gerson, Rev. Nigel Walsingham Gresley, W. S Gresley, Falconer Madan, of Dinkelsbühl Nicholas, Ulrich Schreier & Karl von Schurff

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  • 15th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Missal, with music, for a Benedictine nunnery

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession.

  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “exorcism”.

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Contemporary binding. Sewn on four double cords laced into wood boards, covered with pink leather blind-tooled in a lattice pattern, in each compartment a flower with eight heart-shaped petals, each cover with four metal corner-pieces and a circular centre-piece; one strap is missing from a pair of clasps; the catch-plates, clasp, and centre-pieces each engraved with a rose design. Red leather fore-edge tabs. The inner face of each board is lined with part of a manuscript in very large formal textualis quadrata script. c. 180 × 125 mm.; Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 188 digitized image(s); ff. i (modern paper) + II (medieval parchment) + 87 + II (medieval parchment).; One very fine miniature of the Crucifixion, probably an early work of Ulrich Schreier, c. 1460-70, perhaps cut from another book, stuck to fol. 33v, with an added penwork border. Included in Michaela Schuller-Juckes, ‘Ulrich Schreier und seine Werkstatt: Buchmalerei und Einbandkunst in Salzburg, Wien und Bratislava im späten Mittelalter’, Dr. Phil. thesis (Vienna, 2009), p. 187 Kat. 80. Three-line initial in blue with red penwork flourishing (fol. 34r). Two-line initials plain red, or alternately plain red or blue. One-line initials in plain red.; Parchment; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Lat. liturg. e. 13

Between 1495 and 1503—Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Lat. liturg. e. 13
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: Austria, Salzburg (?)
  • Record origin: Description (April 2021) by Peter Kidd, edited by Matthew Holford; with thanks to Thomas Schmid and to anonymous colleagues at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften for assistance with the inscription on fol. 4r.
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