Details

Subjects:

Franciscans -- Germany.
Franciscans.
Flowers -- Poetry.
Flowers.
Germany.
Flowers -- Germany.
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) -- History -- Sources.
Karben (Germany) -- History -- Sources.

Form/Genre:

Poetry.
Codices.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German.

Summary:

Hand-sewn booklet containing a rhymed poem entitled Eingang (f. 4r), dedicated by the author, Bertram Reinartz, on the title page to the officials (Schultheyss, Burgermeister, und Raht) of the city of Frankfurt am Main. In a preface (f. 2r-3v) addressed to these same officials, Reinartz indicates that the work is a gift on the occasion of the new year, and is offered in gratitude for beneficence that they have shown him in the previous year; below his name (f. 3v) he titles himself as a former Franciscan preacher, Kölnische Provinz (Cologne province), and newly appointed pastor in Burg-Gräfenrode (nuhn mehr aber designirter Pfarrer zu Burggrefenrod in der Wetteraw). In the preface, he praises the wisdom and virtue of the officials while comparing them to flowers, citing Bible verses and an anecdote of Pliny. The poem is composed of 70 numbered stanzas. The speaker describes the flowers he encountered in Frankfurt as symbolic of Christian virtues and ends with a wish for the city officials to be blessed and to enter paradise.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 13 + ii; [1-13]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: 20-25 long lines; frame-rule and line-ruled in pencil.
Script: Written in a formal calligraphic book script by Bertram Reinartz.
Decoration: Pen-and-ink drawings of flowers (f. 1v and recto of f. 5-12).
Binding: Contemporary paper covers (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Burg-Gräfenrode (today part of the city of Karben, in Hesse, Germany) in 1694 or 1695 (f. 13v).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by August Hase (Frankfurt am Main), 1958.

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), p. 85 (Ms. German 33).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1114

OCLC:

191114983