Ownership: Written for Berthold, abbot of Weingarten (1200-35), and mentioned in his missal (Morgan Ms. 710; listed as Ms.A9). Remained at Weingarten until 1781. Collection of Lord Vernon; his sale (1918) to Maggs. By 1920, acquired for the Spencer collection.
Citation/reference: As above, with chart by Dr. G.B. Guest. Library dossier. Listed in Digital Scriptorium, University of California, Berkeley.
Content: Foliated in ink, but mistake made as between ff. 98 and 99 one leaf not counted. Corrections in pencil.
Content: 24 lines in two columns, ruled in drypoint. Above top line. Quire signatures and prickings visible. Collation: I-VI#^8#; VII-VIII#^2#; IX#^6#; X-XIX#^8#; XX#^6#; 2 added leaves.
Content: 15 historiated initials, with portraits of prophets, saints etc.
Content: Rubrics. Initials in red, or red and yellow; others in red, blue and green. 19 elaborately decorated initials in many colors. On ff. 144v-146v, red daubs as placefinders, and 1-line red initials.
Content: Written for Berthold, Abbot of Weingarten (1200-1235), dated by Dr. Guest (in-house files) to ca. 1220; scribe B, s. XIV?; scribe D, s. XIII? Repairs to parchment with thread of various colors. Vellum tabs attached to fore edges as placemarkers.
Content: 4?: A, ff. 1v-50, 59-143v; B, f. 50v; C (=A?), ff. 51v-58v; D, ff 144-146v
Content: Contains six minor prophets and lives of saints. When rebound, it was separated from its other half (the first six minor prophets), now in St. Petersburg (in 1974 citation as Leningrad Public Library, ms. Lat. F.V.I. 133).
Biographical/historical: Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts are vehicles of the collective memory of western European culture, and provide a material connection between the scribes, illuminators, and patrons who produced these works and the audiences who view them today. The works represent diverse genres, from Bibles and missals to romance literature and science texts. Dating from the turn of the 10th century until well into the period of the Renaissance, these works give vivid testimony to the creative impulses of the often nameless craftsmen who continually discovered new ways of animating the contents of hand-produced books through inventive and sometimes exuberant manipulations of all the elements of the book: form and format, layout, script, decoration, illustration, and binding. Drawn from the Spencer Collection and the Manuscripts and Archives Division, the New York Public Library’s collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts focus on the 9th through the 16th centuries -- seven hundred years of political, ecclesiastical, social, and intellectual change in Western Europe and the world.
