IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS GERM 7
Held at: University College London
Title: Colonne Translation (German)
Date(s): 13th century, 1320, 15th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 156 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Guido Delle Colonne: born, possibly in Sicily, c1215; jurist, poet, and author of several Latin chronicles and histories, whose version of the Troy legend was important in bringing the story to Italians and, through various translations, into other literatures; a poet of the Sicilian school, a group of early Italian vernacular poets; died, possibly in Sicily, c1290.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing a German translation of Guido Delle Colonne, 'Historia Troiana and Alexander Der Grosse' (history of Troy and Alexander the Great, ff 1r-97v and 98r-154v respectively). The binding bears on the back: Romances. M.S.
The binding includes strips of parchment from manuscripts of the 13th century and 1320.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German, Bavarian dialect. Gothic script; Carolingian minuscule and Gothic cursive on the binding strips.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Paper manuscript bound in the original oak boards, covered with stamped pigskin. One hand throughout. Initials in red, flourished with blue, or vice versa, except on folios 1r and 98r, which are of gold leaf, flourished with red. 31cm.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
The manuscript was bought by the bookseller Thorpe at the sale of the Kloss collection in London in 1835 for Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MS 9065. Also bearing the ex libris of Dr Roemer (inside front cover) and of Georgius Kloss, MD, Francofurti ad Moenum (f 1r), and the following numbers: a 45.827; 1126; 510.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to University College London by Lord Crawford in 1911.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001