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Bookseller's receipt

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Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA Musik L 46

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Bookseller's list
Shelfmarks RARA Musik L 46
Former Shelfmarks RARA Musik L 42 129
Page/Folio Reference Envelope 8
Material Paper
Place of Origin Denmark
Script, Hands

Cursive merchant's hand

Original Condition

More about the Condition

The fragments constitute a single-leaf document which is almost completely preserved, albeit in two pieces. The format is a list rather than prose text. 

Current Condition

Extent Two pieces
Dimensions 218 x 190 mm
More about the Current Condition

Torn in two in order to fit into the binding. Some loss of text due to crumpling and staining. 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Low German
    • Title List of received titles and number of copies
    • Content Description

      These two fragments are from a list documenting a shipment of books that was received in 1599. It contains titles in Danish, Latin, Greek, and German pertaining to subjects such as Danish history, the catechism, bible exegesis and theology, prayers and ballads, grammar and rhetoric. Of the Danish titles on the list, four can be identified as copies of specific editions from Mads Vingaard's Copenhagen workshop:

      2 Kong Krestes den 3 histori = En kaart historiske Beskriffuelse, Paa hues merckeligt, som sig Aarlige under Christian den Tredie Hafffuer tildragit. Kbh.: Mads Vingaard, 1595. 4° (USTC 303251)

      2 Kong Krestes den 2 histori = Arild Huitfeldt: Historiske Bescriffuelse om hues sig haffuer tildragit under Kong Christiern den Anden. Kbh.: Mads Vingaard, 1596. 4°. (USTC 303250)

      2 Kong fredericius den förstis = Arild Huitfeldt: Konning Friderich den Førstis: Danmarckis, Norgis, Wendis oc Gotthis konning etc. histori som regerede fast IX. aar Kbh.: Mads Vingaard, 1597. 4° (USTC 303253)

      8 dansche bibelenn = Biblia. Det er, Den gantske Hellige Scrifft, paa danske, igen offverseet oc prentet effter salige oc høyhofflige ihukommelse, Kong Frederichs den II, befalning. Kbh.: Mads Vingaard, 1589. 2°

      The German and Latin editions are more difficult to identify conclusively, but the titles were predominantly printed in Leipzig, Wittenberg, and Frankfurt.
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History

Origin

Denmark
Provenance

Reused in a Danish stationer-bookbinder's shop.
Remarks

These fragments, along with a series of other early modern paper fragments which formed paste-laminate boards, were removed from the binding of RARA Musik L 42 129, a manuscript music booklet. The information given in the following section relates to this host volume.

Host Volume

Title Collection of balletti by various composers, 21 by Thomas Morley, the others by anonymous composers (Basso)
Date of Origin/Publication ca. 1600
Shelfmark RARA Musik L 42 129
Remarks

The host volume, along with the other volumes kept under this shelfmark, was part of the book collection of Herlufsholm Skole in Næstved, Denmark (est. 1565). Herlufsholm was founded on the grounds of a Benedictine abbey, St Peders Kloster (also known as Skovkloster), that was secularised after the Reformation in 1536/37.

RARA Musik L 42 is a set of four booklets bound in waste parchment. The booklets are paper manuscripts containing polyphonic music in Italian, Latin, German, and Danish copied around 1600. They were used by the school choir in the first half of the 17th century. The set originally comprised of five voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, and fifth voice), but the soprano booklet is no longer extant. They are numbered 127-130 according to the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales database. 

The host volumes underwent conservation interventions sometime in the 20th century, during which they were disbound and the paste-laminate boards were removed and taken apart. The boards were made up of waste paper, mostly sheets from 16th century printed books as well as manuscript ephemera. The waste paper is now kept loose in envelopes under the shelfmark RARA Musik L 46. The outer parchment fragments were put back on the host volumes, restoring the original appearance. The fragments covered in this entry were extracted from booklet 129.

The bindings the original host volumes are laced-case bindings, made from a single continuous piece of parchment folded around the boards and attached to the spine with three visible laced-in endbands. The L 42 volumes were probably bound before they arrived at the school.

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