Marston MS 141     Southern Germany, 1444
Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuehl; Johannes Herolt, etc.

1. f. 1r blank; f. 1v  [Heading:]  De modo concludendi collectas.  [text:]  Per
dominum dicas si patrem prespiter oras/ Cum loqueris nato qui uiuus dicere 
debes/...Cum memoras flamen eiusdem dic prope finem.

Five lines of verse on the proper formulaic conclusion to prayers
addressed to members of the Trinity.

2. ff. 2r-12r  Secundum magistrem [sic] et doctores In quarto [libro 
Sentenciarum] distincione 16#a tres sunt partes vere penitentie...benefactoribus 
suis viuis et defunctis preces fundere neglexerit et cetera est finis.  Explicit
summa viciorum mortalium magistri Nicolaij de dinkelspuhl congregatii [?]
doctoris.

Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuehl, De septem peccatis capitalibus
(Confessionale);
A. Madre, Nikolaus von Dinkelsbuehl:  Leben und Schriften.  Ein Beitrag
zur theologischen Literaturgeschichte.  Beitraege zur Geschichte der
Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters.  Texte und Untersuchungen.
Band 40, Heft 4 (Muenster Westfalen, 1965) pp. 199-202 (with reference to
Marston MS 141 on p. 201).

3. ff. 12v-13r  Latin and German names of the books of the Bible;
Latin and German names of Aristotle's principal works; Latin names of the
Minor Prophets; list of "The 14 Holy Helpers"; list of
short questions and answers on theological subjects, beginning:  "Que
lux fuit ante solem et lunam/ lux angelica que est in principio hec est
in fine...".  ff. 13v-14v blank

4. ff. 15r-239r  [Prologue:]  Ad honorem dei et beate marie virginis et
omnium sanctorum et vtilitatem...invocari veni sancte spiritus et cetera.
[text, f. 15v:]  Ecce rex tuus venit tibi...[Zach. 9.9; Mat. 21.5].  hodie
mater ecclesia jncipit tempus aduentus christi sicut incarnatus est et
descendit de celis...ad quintum uel sextum chorum angelorum peruenire
poterimus et sic est finis huius operis et cetera.  [colophon:]  Explicit
manuale sermonum discipuli collectum ex sermonibus cuiusdem discipuli
de tempore Anno 1444#o.  Amen.

Johannes Herolt ("Discipulus"), Sermones dominicales, with one sermon
selected from his Sermones de tempore for each Sunday; in some instances
the exordium of the sermon has been abridged.  Many manuscripts and early
printed editions.  Beginning on f. 167v sermons are numbered sporadically,
48-66, in Arabic numerals by contemporary hands.

5. ff. 239v-240r  Inter natos mulierum non surrexit...[Mat. 11.11].
Dilectissimi In hijs verbis christus exprimit excellenciam sancti iohannis
baptiste cum dicit inter natos...ut inter viscera materna iam posset cognoscere
creatorem summ//  ff. 240v-247v blank

Johannes Herolt, Sermo in festo Iohannis Baptiste from his Sermones
de Sanctis, ending imperfectly; many manuscripts and early printed
editions.

Paper (thick; watermarks, in gutter:  similar to Briquet Monts 11786 and
unidentified bull's head), ff. i (f. 1) + 246, 208 x 145 mm.  Size of
written space varies as does the number of long lines of text. Frame-ruled in
ink or hard point; remains of prickings in upper, outer, inner margins.
I-IX 12, X 16 (ff. 110-125), XI-XII 12, XIII 16, XIV-XIX 12, XX 10.
Quires II-IX signed on verso with Arabic numerals 1-8, some trimmed; remainder
of quires have catchwords, also trimmed.
Written by multiple scribes in varying styles of gothic hybrida and bookhand
scripts.
Crude red initials, 3- to 2-line, throughout; ff. 33v-38r, 113v-114v and
166r-203r rubricated.
Binding:  Germany, s. xv.  The backs of the quires are cut in.  Original 
sewing on three double supports is laced into almost flush wooden boards, and 
the tawed skin cores of braided endbands, sewn through the cover, are also 
laced. The spine is back cornered with lining extending between supports on the
outside of the boards.  Large vermilion and sepia roses are painted on
each edge (see also provenance).  Back pastedown (and perhaps the inner
front pastedown, covered by paper) consists of a parchment bifolium
(Germany, s. XIII#1) containing the Sermones de tempore of Johannes
Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (Schneyer, v. 3, p. 512, nos. 26-27).  Ca. 31 long
lines, written space ca. 150 x 90 mm.  Written in small neat early gothic
bookhand, above top line.  Binding stays from this and other parchment
manuscripts, s. xiii-xiv.
Covered in kermes pink skin blind-tooled with
an X in a frame on the front board, tying-up marks on the spine, and a
frame on the lower one.  Five round, brass bosses on each board and one
fastening, the catch inset on the upper board, the lower one cut in for
the strap.  

Written in Southern Germany in 1444 (see colophon, art. 4).  Perhaps produced
and/or owned by the Benedictine abbey of Amorbach in Bavaria (Cottineau,
v. 1, 88-89).  According to A. Derolez (letter on file) the same roses that
are painted on the edges of Marston MS 141 also occur (but on a larger scale)
on the edges of the three volumes of the following printed
book in the University Library, Ghent:  Biblia latina glosata
(Strasbourg:  Adolf Rusch, ca. 1481; GKW 4282).  These volumes are blind-stamped
with the text-stamp "Amorbach" and contain the ownership mark of this
abbey; the roses are not, however, mentioned as characteristic of the
Amorbach books in P. Lehmann, "Die Bibliothek des Klosters Amorbach,"
Erforschung des Mittelalters, v. 3 (Stuttgart, 1960) pp. 76-109.
Purchased in 1946 from H. Rosenthal by H. P. Kraus ("4055/UZR"), who sold it
in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  Cum ergo

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 80, no. 141.
The Medieval Book, p. 60, no. 59 (with reproduction of binding).

Barbara A. Shailor