Legends of the Saints (German)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS GERM 17
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Legends of the Saints (German)
Date(s)	: 14th century, 1462
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume containing 265 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Headings suggest that the manuscript was written in Cologne.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, 1462: Heiligenlegenden (Legends of the Saints). A parchment leaf at the end of the manuscript bears liturgical text in Latin in a 14th-century hand.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German, Middle Franconian dialect. Gothic cursive and Gothic minuscule scripts.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

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

Archival history:

The manuscript once belonged to Professor van Ess and later to 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 638.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to University College London by Mr Oppenheimer in 1911.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

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