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Introduction

The shelfmark MS. Germ. was adopted for miscellaneous German-language manuscripts acquired from 1887 onwards, as part of the classification system introduced by the then Bodley Librarian E. W. B. Nicholson (see R. W. Hunt in Summary Catalogue, vol. I pp. xlv-xlvi). The manuscripts are subdivided by size, from 'a' (largest, 20" and over) to 'g' (smallest, 5" and under).

Shelfmark MS. Germ. b. 1
Summary Catalogue no. 29736
Summary of contents German deeds connected with the towns of Gmünd and Frankfurt-am-Main.
Language German
Origin German
Date 1331-1411
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 5, p. 680

Shelfmark MS. Germ. b. 2
Summary Catalogue no. 29737
Summary of contents German deeds connected with the towns of Gmünd and Frankfurt-am-Main, and Stockach.
Language German
Origin German
Date 1411-1470
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 5, p. 680

Shelfmark MS. Germ. b. 3, fol. 8
Summary Catalogue no. Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents Leaf, mutilated.
Language German
Origin German
Date 14th century, second half
Material parchment

Decoration
Miniatures (mutilated). (P&A i. 147)

Images
Manuscript image fol. 8r Fragment, St. Margaret's vision of the Crucifixion.
Bibliography
Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts, no. 47233 (for post-medieval items in the same guardbook)

Shelfmark MS. Germ. d. 1
Summary Catalogue no. 30530
Composite fols. 1-4 || fols. 5-6
Summary of contents Manuscript fragments: prose lives of St. Nicholas and St. Ambrose || Guido de Colonna, Historia Troiana (fols. 5-6).
Language German || Latin and German
Origin German || German, South
Date 15th century || c. 1440
Material parchment

Decoration
- || Fine miniatures (coloured drawings). (P&A i. 158, pl. XII)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 5, p. 826
Manuscript image fol. 6r Miniature, Achilles prays in the temple at Delphi.

Shelfmark MS. Germ. d. 4
Summary Catalogue no. Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents Iacobus de Theramo, Processus Belial.
Language German
Origin German
Date c. 1400
Material paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Shelfmark MS. Germ. e. 5
Summary Catalogue no. Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents Collection, probably for the use of Augustinian canonesses.
Language German and Latin
Origin German, South
Date 1395, with additions
Material paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Images
Manuscript image fol. 1r Plain text page.
Bibliography
S. J. P. van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 7 vols. in 8, 1957-60 (unpublished typescript), III, 223
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 489, II, pl. 236 (fol. 1r)

Shelfmark MS. Germ. e. 10
Summary Catalogue no. Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents Williram von Ebersberg, et al., Latin-German glossary for liturgical texts; translation of the Song of Songs.
Language Latin and German
Origin German, Thuringia
Date 15th century
Material paper
Images
Manuscript image fol. 1r Plain text page.
Bibliography
1992
Hans-Ulrich Schmid, 'Eine spät-mittelalterliche bairische Übersetzung des Hohen Liedes', in Latein und Volkssprache im deutschen Mittelalter 1100-1500: Regensburger Colloquium 1988, eds. Nikolaus Henkel & Nigel F. Palmer, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1992, pp. 199-208, at p. 201 [fols. 24-7]

Shelfmark MS. Germ. g. 1
Summary Catalogue no. 30050
Summary of contents Book of Hours of the Holy Cross.
Language German
Origin German, Aachen
Date 1495
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine miniature, borders, initials, defaced. Written by Theodericus Clocker, canon of Aachen, for Johannes Munten. (P&A i. 366)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 5, p. 720
Manuscript image fol. 70v Virgin and Child flanked by two angels playing rebec and harp.
Bibliography
1989
Sigrid Krämer [with Michael Bernhard for vol. 3], Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols. (= Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1), Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1989-90: 'Nicht aus Köln, Kartäuser'

LwM 07 July 2011