[Cerae, fumigia, pulvera, benedictiones et exorcismi contra malificia].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Exorcism--Germany--Early works to 1800.

Exorcism.

Germany.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

litanies (prayers)

prayers (compositions)

recipes

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Prayers and devotions.

Prayers.

Devotional literature.

Penn Provenance:

Possible ownership inscription: Dreisch (f. i recto).

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1970.

Physical Description:

112 leaves : paper ; 178 x 107 (152 x 91) mm bound to 182 x 108 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [between 1600 and 1699]

Summary:

Prayers (including several litanies) and exorcisms in Latin, with some recipes in German. Table of contents added by a later hand at the beginning of the volume.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Opening rubric: Cera specialissima contra maleficia (p. 1).

Pagination: Paper, 112 leaves; [iv], 1-130, 132-140, [ii], 141-154, [ii], 155-180, 189-192, [ii], 193-203, 203-229, [iii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with two folios added in the front in a second, slightly later hand.

Binding: Contemporary parchment (leaf from an earlier missal). Some oxidation of ink.

Origin: Written in Germany in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement A (5), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 98 (Ms. Lea 580).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 695

OCLC:

212058592