IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS GERM 26
Held at: University College London
Title: Prayer Book (German and Latin, 1466)
Date(s): 1466
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 55 + 17 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Written in southern Germany for the use of Dominican nuns.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Gebetbuch (Book of Prayers), 1466, including visitation of the sick, administration of the Last Sacrament, and burial of the dead.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German (Alemannic dialect) and Latin. Gothic minuscule and Gothic cursive hands.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Parchment manuscript with quire of paper (17 ff) inserted at the beginning, bound in oak boards covered with calf and fastened with a brass clasp in the centre of the front cover. One hand on parchment, and a different hand on paper. Headings in red. Initials alternately red or blue.16cm.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935), which summarises the contents of the manuscript; N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bought by University College London from Mrs Oke of Margate in 1921.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001