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Kotter Mystical Manuscript


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS GERM 32

Held at: University College London

Title: Kotter Mystical Manuscript

Date(s): [1620s]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 400 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume [1620s]: Christoph Kotter's 'Mystisches Manuskript', comprising declarations of mystical experiences made before the civic and ecclesiastical authorities of the town of Sprottau. With 20 pen drawings of visions in the text.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German. Cursive hand.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript bound in half vellum. One hand, with marginal annotations and corrections. 29.5cm.

Finding aids:

List at University College London Special Collections.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Bookplate bearing the intials C W C V N.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Drawings | Visual materials
Religious experience | Religion
Illustrations
Mysticism

Personal names
Kotter | Christoph | fl c 1620s | mystic

Corporate names

Places
Szprotawa | Poland | Eastern Europe
Sprottau x Szprotawa