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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number MS GERM/24
TitleCollected Texts (Swiss German, late 15th century)
DateLate 15th century (some dated 1491, 1493, 1496), 16th century
DescriptionManuscript volume, late 15th century: Sammelhandschrift, a collection of miscellaneous texts, some dated 1491, 1493, 1496, and including a Carthusian calendar, sermons, religious poems, prayers, and other texts. With some 16th-century text and annotations. Consists of several booklets bound together, they are in various hands.

Approximately the first third of the volume is on parchment and the remaining two thirds on paper. Bound in tooled leather over wooden boards with two non-matching brass clasps with 'duck-head' decoration. There are many parchment tab page markers, particularly in the front half of the manuscript.
Extent1 volume containing 332 leaves
AdminHistoryFrom the charterhouse 'zu Yttingen' (Ittingen, Thurgau, Switzerland).
CustodialHistoryBearing on the inside front cover: N 54.
AcquisitionPresented to University College London by Professor Trouton in 1911.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsHandle with care. Centre section does not open fully.
FindingAidsDorothy 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' (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
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