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ff. 1-320; f. 320v blank. [Otto von Passau]. [Vierundzwanzig Alten]. Incipit: Aller erste alte wiset dich minnende sele uff dich selber daz du vor uß betrahten solt. Explicit: An der heiligen himelfursten oben marien zů der lichtmesse. Des Jores do men zalte M ccc lxxx und sechs Jor. Amen. Anno xxxi Jor et cetera. Rubric: Diß ist der ane vang des bůches und vohet hie Amen. German. See W. Schmidt, Die vierundzwanzig Alten Ottos von Passau. Palaestra 212 (Leipzig 1938), for a list of the incunable editions and 113 manuscripts, including HM 1082 on pp. 85-86. In this manuscript, the names of the Elders are absent from the headings; the Discourse of the 13th Elder, f. 147v, begins incorrectly: "Got uesteclichen vergihe ich dritzehender alte lop und rům der ewigen wisheit . . . ," thus interrupting the alphabetical sequence of initials of each Discourse by use of a "G" instead of the expected "N" (I/J and U/V as one each; W at the end). Leaves missing between ff. 53-54 and 64-65 with the beginning of the eighth and ninth Elders' Discourses; f. 208rb, blank, but text is complete. The text is preceded by a chapter list and a prologue. Title from printed catalog. Support: Paper. Script: Littera currens. Layout: 1-4¹² 5¹²(-6, after f. 53) 6¹²(-6 after f. 64) 7-26¹² 27¹²(-11, 12). Catchwords in lower right corner; quire signatures in roman numerals on ff. 262v (xxii), 274v (cropped). 2 columns of 22-25 lines, frame ruled in lead. Watermark(s): 4 types of Anchor; Crown; unidentified. Decoration: Twenty-three simple miniatures, ca. 90 x 65 mm. in colored wash over black ink, enclosed in alternating red or light blue frames, with colored backgrounds often decorated with groupings of dots. Other Decoration: Major initials, usually 5-line, in red with some void decoration; initials on ff. 103, 147v, 155v, 317 (the Dankbarkeit) infilled with simple colored designs; that on f. 166v, infilled with a sketch of a church. Secondary initials, 2- or 1-line, in red, either solidly colored or with void designs; 1-line initials slashed in red; red paragraph marks and underlining of Latin passages. Some damage due to acidic ink. Assigned Date: s. XV2/4. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XIX, in German half vellum; red sprinkled edges. Written in Alsace, according to dialect forms in the text, in the first half of the fifteenth century, probably 1431, if "Anno xxxi Jor et cetera" with which the manuscript ends, is the date of copying; the date in the colophon, 1386, is that of the composition of the work. Belonged in modern times to the bookseller Baer, whose name is in pencil on the front pastedown. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. HM 1082. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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