| Description | Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing a German translation (Bavarian dialect) of Guido Delle Colonne, "Historia Troiana" and a work titled "Alexander Der Grosse" by an unknown author. (History of Troy, and Alexander the Great, ff 1r-97v and 98r-154v respectively). The text is written in the same 15th century gothic hand throughout. The binding bears on the back: Romances. M.S.
Bound in original oak boards covered in stamped pigskin. Remains of missing clasps.
The binding includes manuscript fragments written in a Caroline minuscule of the 13th century and a guard strip for the last quire in a Gothic minuscule dated 1320. They are visible as long strips of parchment between some of the gatherings, supporting the sewing [sewing guards / quire guard]. |
| AdminHistory | Guido Delle Colonne: born, possibly in Sicily, c1215; jurist, poet, and author of several Latin chronicles and histories, whose version of the Troy legend was important in bringing the story to Italians and, through various translations, into other literatures; a poet of the Sicilian school, a group of early Italian vernacular poets; died, possibly in Sicily, c1290. |
| CustodialHistory | The manuscript was bought by the bookseller Thorpe at the sale of the Kloss collection in London in 1835 for Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MS 9065. Also bearing the ex libris of Dr Roemer (inside front cover) and of Georgius Kloss, MD, Francofurti ad Moenum (f 1r), and the following numbers: a 45.827; 1126; 510. |