HENRICUS de FRIEMAR, IOHANNES CONTRACTUS, Sermones de Sanctis – ms.
Dublin, Trin. Coll. [cote non spécifiée]

Mid-15th cent., Germany (Erfurt)
Paper, 352 ff. (one blank); 314 x 212 mm. Large red painted initials. Contemporary blind-stamped binding on wooden boards, with 2 (of 8) metal corner-pieces and marks from bosses

From the Carthusian house of Salvatorberg at Erfurt (contemporary ownership inscription; recorded in the late fifteenth-century catalogue of the abbey under the shelfmark 'O.43')
Former owners: G.J. von Bulow (his sale, Eisleben, 1836, III, lot 97); Gillyat Sumner, 1855; The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass. (their 252.02H39)

Auction: Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1998, lot 83

Cf. P. Lehmann, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, II, Bistum Mainz, Erfurt, 1928, p.497
— S. de Ricci and W.J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1935, p.1064, no.3
— J.B. Schneyer, Repertorium der Lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, II, 1970, p.671
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