IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS GERM 24
Held at: University College London
Title: Collected Texts (Swiss German, late 15th century)
Date(s): Late 15th century (some dated 1491, 1493, 1496), 16th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 332 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
From the charterhouse 'zu Yttingen' (Ittingen, Thurgau, Switzerland).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume, late 15th century: Sammelhandschrift, a collection of miscellaneous texts, some dated 1491, 1493, 1496, and including a Carthusian calendar, sermons, religious poems, prayers, and other texts. With some 16th-century text and annotations.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German. The hands, some transitional, include Gothic minuscule, Gothic cursive, and Humanistic minuscule.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Mixed paper and parchment manuscript (232 and 100 leaves respectively) in a contemporary binding of oak boards covered with pressed leather (strengthened). Several hands and scripts. Headings and initials in red. 21cm.
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:
Bearing on the inside front cover: N 54.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to University College London by Professor Trouton in 1911.
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: Sep 2001