Love letter fragments

Description

Title: Love letter fragments
Published / Created: approximately 1500-1550.
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
Description: In German.
Bookseller description available.
Script: German cursive.
Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.
Provenance: Purchased from Peter Kiefer on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2020.
Extent: 2 items in 1 volume :
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ; 50 mm x 45 mm and smaller
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Germany
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Love-letters
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Love-letters > Germany > 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Love Letter Fragments. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.