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ROSARIUM BIBLIAE ( Judges to Apocalypse ); attributed to ST AUGUSTINE, Concordantia evangelistarum ; in Latin and German, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS ON PAPER
ROSARIUM BIBLIAE ( Judges to Apocalypse ); attributed to ST AUGUSTINE, Concordantia evangelistarum ; in Latin and German, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS ON PAPER [Germany, ?Leipzig], 1500107 x 77mm. v + 135 + v leaves: 1 1 1 (uncertain, some single and misbound leaves), 2 1 9 (of 22 lacking i-iii), 3 1 6 , 4 2 2 , 5 2 0 , 6 2 2 , 7 2 0 , 8 5 (uncertain, lacking first leaves), faulty modern pagination in upper margin followed here, bifolios of engravings alternated with bifolios of text, the centre bifolio of a quire always of text with the centrefold originally blank so that a page of text always appears beside a page of engraving, about 20 lines written in brown ink in a cursive hand, large initials in red or blue, headings in red, SIXTY FOLIOS WITH HAND COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON BOTH SIDES, one folio with engraving only on verso, one engraving above text (defective at beginning, lacking other leaves, some leaves misbound, repairs to many leaves including pp.210-11, where corner with text is missing, text worn on some leaves). Modern brown leather over pasteboard, earlier knotted vellum fore-edge tabs. Red solander box. PROVENANCE: 1. The scribe signed and dated his work Explicit novum testamentum 1500 in die compassione virginis marie hoc est ix kl augusti frater dirk peter ( us ?) de gemundis , and his name appears again below, Ach wy is der lon so krangk/Wo nicht mehr noch volgeth/Wann dirk peter ( us ?) hab danck , p.257. His colophon to the Concordantia is now partly illegible but is signed peter de gemundis and dated to 1500 in die apparationis domini , 6 January, p.267. He can be identified as the Frater Theodoricus (Dirk) Peterus de Gemundis who so inscribed a copy of Peter Lombard's Sententiae (Basel, 1492) with a provenance from the library of the Benedictine Abbey of St Stephan in Würzburg. It is now in the Universitätsbibliothek, Würzburg (I.t.f.352). He is almost certainly the man of that name who matriculated at Leipzig University in 1489 (F. Schöningen, Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Bistums und Hochstifts Würzburg , 55, 2000, p.434). It is not known where he was in 1500. If the inscription below the final engraving, IHENIS, is correctly interpreted as indicating the engravings' origin in Jena, Dirk Peter may still have been in near-by Leipzig when he wrote this text specifically to accompany the engravings (see Jean-Michel-Massing, 'From Manuscript to Engravings, Late Medieval Mnemonic Bibles', pp.101-15 in Ars memorativa Zur kulturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung der Gedächtniskunst 1400-1750 , J.J. Berns and W. Neuber eds, 1993). Since an early owner of one volume with the engravings was a Jena Dominican, a more precise origin for the prints has been suggested at the Dominican Convent in Jena, given the Dominican mission for educated, informed preaching and teaching (see S. Rischpler, Biblia sacra figuris expressis, Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts , 2001). Dirk Peter was possibly a Dominican; there was also a Dominican convent in Leipzig. He seems to have produced multiple copies of the text to accompany the engravings: he signed and dated in the same year a manuscript very similar to the Arcana volume, except that its Psalter is in German instead of Latin (formerly in the Hildburghausen Stadtbibliothek, see F. Thoma, 'Petrus von Rosenheim', Das bayerische Inn-Oberland , XXXII, 1962, p.109, where the scribe's name is read as Dietz Peterus). 2. Jacobi Monachi Buttestatiani, p.35: Jacob the Monk of Büttstädt near Weimar, perhaps a Benedictine at St Stephan, Würzburg, which was secularised in 1802; on p.113 there is a monogram of MVB surmounted by a cross with further letters, perhaps W C O H S; other blank centrefolds were used for additions and there are many annotations and a few small drawings. CONTENT: Rosarium bibliae , based on Petrus de Rosenheim (c.1380-1433), Roseum memoriale , lacking Genesis to Joshua and the beginning of Judges; the final leaf of Judges has