Bod-Inc: R-099
Rolewinck, Werner
De laude antiquae Saxoniae, nunc Westphaliae dictae.
Analysis of Content
a2r [Tabula.]
a3r Rolewinck, Werner: [Letter addressed] to Henricus de Wartemberch (Wartenberg), Bishop of Münster; Conradus de Depholt (Diepholz), Bishop of Osnabrück; Simon de Lyppia (Lippe), Bishop of Paderborn; Henricus de Schauwenberch (Schauenburg), Bishop of Minden; Count Nicolas de Rekenneborch (Reckenberg); Count Euerwynus de Benthen (Bentheim); Count Euerwinus de Stenuordia (Burgsteinfurt); Count Philippus de Waldeggen (Waldeck); Count Fridericus de Brunchorst (Bronckhorst); Gotfridus Bishop of Trikala; Hermannus de Langhen (Langen), Dean of Münster; Bernardus de Sthledelyth (Schedelich); other [Hospitallers] of the Order of St John at Burgsteinfurt; the Abbot of Yborch (Iburg) OSB; [Arnoldus von Bevern] Abbot of the monastery of Campus Mariae (Marienfeld), OCist.; Arnoldus Drolshagen, burgomaster of Münster; Erwynus burgomaster of Osnabrück; his ecclesiastical colleagues; all the inhabitants of Westphalia. Incipit: ‘[V]obis inclitis ac illustrissimis principibus antique Saxonie nunc Westphalia dicte . . .’ On the dedicatees and dating of this letter to 1474 see H. J. Warnecke, ‘Das Hofrecht von Schulze Rolevink in Laer', Westfälische Zeitschrift, 130 (1980), 31-49, at 46-9.
a4r Rolewinck, Werner: Preface. Incipit: ‘ “[V]arie sibi succedunt cogitationes mee, et mens in diuersa rapitur” [Iob 20,2.] . . .’
a5v Rolewinck, Werner: De laude antiquae Saxoniae, nunc Westphaliae dictae. Ein Buch zum Lobe Westfalens des alten Sachsenlandes: der Text der lateinischen Erstausgabe vom Jahre 1474 mit deutscher Übersetzung, ed. H. Bücker (Münster, 1953), 2-242. On the work see E. Widder ‘Westfalen und die Welt. Anmerkungen zu Werner Rolevinck', Westfälische Zeitschrift, 140 (1991), 93-122.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, c.1475]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard; BSB‑Ink dates to [c.1474], H. Bücker, Werner Rolevinck: Leben und Persönlichkeit im Spiegel des Westfalenbuches (Münster, 1953), 54-56, dates to [1474]; H. J. Warnecke, 46-9, and VL VIII 157 date to [1478], but without giving evidence.
Collation
Collation: a–h8 i6 k8.
Remarks: Leaf a2 signed a1.
References
ISTC: ir00286500
Hain: HC 13961 = HC 14497;
BMC: BMC I 209;
Proctor: Pr 968;
Others: BSB‑Ink R‑259; CIBN R‑194; Oates 449; Sheppard 737; Voulliéme, Köln, 1043.
LCN: 14111784
Copies
Copy number: R-099(1)
Bound with A‑566(2); see there for details of binding and Douce provenance.
Size of leaf: 190 × 128 mm.
Wanting the blank leaves a1 and k8.
Frequent marginal notes (in the first half of the work) in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century German hand, extracting key words, supplying underlining, and summarizing the text.
Initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes are supplied in red.
Provenance: Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Benedictines, BVM and S. Godehardus; erased inscription ‘Mon̄rij S. Godehardi Hildesij' on a2r.
SHELFMARK: Douce 56(1).
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