Mnemotechnical-didactical works and compendia

Description

Title: Mnemotechnical-didactical works and compendia
Creator: Slitpacher, Iohannes
Published / Created: 1439 (?).
Publication Place: Austria
Abstract: Manuscript on paper and parchment of Compendia in verse of the Bible and of the Sententiae; works on Canon and Roman Law; and Notes and metra especially on moral theology. Almost all texts and tables in this small manuscript are either by Iohannes Slitpacher, a Benedictine monk in the abbey of Melk, or anonymous and unrecorded
Description: In Latin.
Probably copied by one hand, writing an extremely small Gothica Semihybrida, varying from Libraria to Currens.
Headings in red. Red heightening of majuscules and underlining. Red plain initials. A few crude flourished initials. Tables and circular diagrams in red and black ink; an unfinished diagram on the rear cover (f. 136v).
Binding: Twentieth century. Brown leather over pasteboard, spine with three raised bands. Ff. 1 and 136, of thick yellowish parchment, are the original covers.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1987.
Extent: ff. i + 136 + i : 85 x 60 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper and parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Slitpacher, Iohannes.
Benedictines.
Subject (Topic): Canon law
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Slitpacher, Iohannes
Benedictines
Canon law
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Austria > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Iohannes Slitpacher, Mnemotechnical-Didactical Works and Compendia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.