Weltchronik

Description

Title: Weltchronik
Creator: Muenchen, Heinrich von
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1415]
Publication Place: Southern Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (one leaf, cut in half vertically). Inner margin continues through gutter, with slits for binding, to include ca. three letters of the text of the other half of the bifolium
Description: In German.
Script: Written in gothic cursive script.
Plain initials alternate in red and blue; headings and initials in red. Guide-letters for plain initials.
Rubbed and stained on verso with some loss of text.
Inscription on verso, inner margin "Stuefft Buch pro anno 1657" indicates that the leaf was used for a 17th-century binding.
Provenance: Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1965 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
Extent: f. 1 : 360 x 280 (250 x 170) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Muenchen, Heinrich von.
Subject (Topic): German literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Muenchen, Heinrich von
German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Heinrich von Muenchen, Weltchronik. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.