Guido de Monte Rocherii (fl. 14th century) and Johannes Marienwerder (1343-1417)
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Los 21 | Guido de Monte Rocherii (fl. 14th century) and Johannes Marienwerder (1343-1417)
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Manipulus curatorum, and Tabula Expositionis Symboli Apostolorum, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany], 1454
A dated manuscript of two essential medieval primers for celebrants of the Eucharist, from the monastery of Neustift, in a contemporary binding.
212 x 150mm. 209 leaves, collation: 1-612, 716, 812(of 14, lacking xiii and xiv), 913 (of 14, i a cancelled blank), 10-1312, 1416, 15-1612, 178 (of 10, ix-x cancelled blanks), modern foliation in pencil 1-209, contemporary foliation to xcix, four gathering signatures survive, c.35-45 lines written in gothic cursive, written space: c. 175 x 100mm, rubrics, paraphs and initials in red, other drawn initials, two large elaborately decorated initials, contemporary red leather tabs survive, various maniculae throughout, fragments of pastedowns from a 12th-century manuscript (lacking 2 leaves, lower part of f.209 excised with no loss of text, some edges frayed, marginal staining and thumbing, overall in good condition). Contemporary blind-tooled red sheepskin over wooden boards, brass fasteners on lower cover (rebacked, spine repaired, a little scuffed, lacking bosses).
Provenance:
(1) The colophon on f.209 states that the manuscript was completed in 1454: 'Et quod finitur feria v hora quarta ante festum sancti ?Iohannis sub anno domini m cccc liiii amen'.
(2) 'Liber conventus Nove celle Sancte Marie Virginis': contemporary ownership inscription on ff.1v and 2. This is likely to refer to the Premonstratensian priory of Neustift near Freising, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and founded by bishop Otto in 1140. Other houses with the name 'Nova Cella' are Neuzelle Abbey, in Lower Lusatia, founded in 1268 by Henry the Illustrious; Novacella Abbey in South Tyrol; and a Carthusian monastery in Grünau, in Schollbrunn in Bavaria. The Freising monastery is perhaps the most likely provenance, given that the manuscript appears in Ludwig Rosenthal's 1888 Munich catalogue (see below).
(3) Frater Michael Molner de Heylsburg: contemporary inscription on f.1v. A Nicholaus Molner de Heyelsbergh is recorded in 1448 and an Andreas Molner of Heilsberg in 1463 (see M. Perlbach, Prussia scholastica: die Ost- und Westpreussen auf den mittelalterlichen Universitäten, vol. 1, 1895, pp. 187 and 210). This is probably Heilsberg, just outside Frankfurt.
(4) Ludwig Rosenthal (1840-1928), German antiquarian bookseller: his catalogue LX, Bibliotheca Catholico-Theologica Decima, Munich, 1888, no 2912.
(5) Sotheby's, 9 March 1931, lot 42, 'The property of a Collector resident on the Continent', to Maggs.
(6) Chiswick Book Shop, probably their tipped in printed short description on inside upper board, no 104, acquired in 1949 by:
(7) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(8) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label inside upper cover, MS 80. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 47. Published in Faye & Bond, Supplement, p.402.
Content:
Table of Contents, beginning: 'Incipit liber qui dicitur manipulus curatorum editus a magistro guidone de monte rochen in ciuitate turoli et dividitur in tres partes' ff.1-1v; Guido de Monte Rocherii, Manipulus curatorum, beginning: 'Reverendo in Cristo Patri ac Domino domino Reimundo divina providentia [...]' and ending incompletely: 'et laudare deum post resurrectionem autem habe [...]', ff.2-100v; introduction to the Expositio, beginning: 'Pro tabula depositionis simboli appostolorum [sic] est sciendum quod totus iste liber est distinctus in xiii partes', ff.101-106v; Johannes Marienwerder, Expositio Symboli Apostolorum, beginning: 'Venite ambulens in lumine Dei nostri [...]', ff.107-209.
Guido de Monte Rocherii, often misidentified as the French author Guy de Montrocher, was likely born in Spain, in Teruel, at the beginning of the 14th century. He composed the Manipulus curatorum as a pastoral manual for instructing priests in the sacraments, but it is also a wide-ranging catechetical treatise touching on aspects of canon law, penance and confession. The text here is aptly followed by another important medieval work on the Eucharist, Johannes Marienwerder's Expositio Symboli Apostolorum. Marienwerder was the pre-eminent theologian of Pomesania: he spent more than 20 years at the university in Prague before joining the Teutonic order in 1387. His Expositio on the celebration of the Eucharist is a guide for celebrants and provides an important insight into the theology of the Eucharistic tradition in medieval Europe.
Literature
Faye & Bond Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1962, p.402, no 80.
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