Every item of data recorded (a certain style of decoration or binding, the date of a manuscript note, etc.) is treated as a valuable clue for provenance, therefore it can be geographically located and chronologically dated. This enables to track the movement of books across Europe and through the centuries.
ownerMaria Laach, Eifel, Benedictines, BVM and S. Nikolaussee Carl Schorn, Eiflia Sacra (Bonn, 1888), I 723-61; Cottineau I 1533-4; Krämer II 555-6; Die Männer- und Frauenklöster der Benediktiner in Rheinland-Pfalz und Saarland, ed. Friedhelm Jürgensmeier, Germania Benedictina, 9 (St Ottilien, 1999), 269-341.
noteProvenance: Maria Laach, Eifel, Benedictines, BVM and S. Nikolaus; inscription on [*1r] in a fifteenth-century hand: 'Liber sancte marie virginies in lacu in quarto ɂti'; 'Liber monasterii beate Marie virginis in Lacu in quo continetur Legenda aurea siue Speculum sanctorum que alio nomine dicitur Lombartica historia edita a venerabili patre domino Jacobo cognomento Voraginis episcopo Genuensi ordinis predicatorum'.
provenance
1701 -
1900
timeperiod1701 - 1900
ownerNiesert, Johann Heinrich Joseph (1766-1841), 1766 - 1841 Pastor of Velen, North Rhine-Westphalia, tutor to the sons of Graf Landsberg-Velen; see Max Husung, `Joseph Niesert: aus dem Leben eines gelehrten westfälischen Büchersammlers', in Westfälische Studien: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literaturs in Westfalen Alois Bömer zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet (Leipzig, 1928), 119-24; Catalogus exquisitae bibliothecae pastoris Niesert Velenae... (Borken, 1842) [sale stated to be on 14 Mar. 1843, but actually July 1843, according to manuscript note by Bulkeley Bandinell in the Bodleian copy]; the greater part of his library is now in the University Library of Münster; some items were acquired by the Bodleian before his sale, according to B-437(1).
noteJoseph Niesert (1766-1841), 1820; inscription on [*1r]: 'Bibliothecae J. Niesert parochi in Velen. 1820'; sale (1843), lot 320.
ownerMaria Laach, Eifel, Benedictines, BVM and S. Nikolaussee Carl Schorn, Eiflia Sacra (Bonn, 1888), I 723-61; Cottineau I 1533-4; Krämer II 555-6; Die Männer- und Frauenklöster der Benediktiner in Rheinland-Pfalz und Saarland, ed. Friedhelm Jürgensmeier, Germania Benedictina, 9 (St Ottilien, 1999), 269-341.
noteProvenance: Maria Laach, Eifel, Benedictines, BVM and S. Nikolaus; inscription on [*1r] in a fifteenth-century hand: 'Liber sancte marie virginies in lacu in quarto ɂti'; 'Liber monasterii beate Marie virginis in Lacu in quo continetur Legenda aurea siue Speculum sanctorum que alio nomine dicitur Lombartica historia edita a venerabili patre domino Jacobo cognomento Voraginis episcopo Genuensi ordinis predicatorum'.
provenance
1701 -
1900
timeperiod1701 - 1900
ownerNiesert, Johann Heinrich Joseph (1766-1841), 1766 - 1841 Pastor of Velen, North Rhine-Westphalia, tutor to the sons of Graf Landsberg-Velen; see Max Husung, `Joseph Niesert: aus dem Leben eines gelehrten westfälischen Büchersammlers', in Westfälische Studien: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literaturs in Westfalen Alois Bömer zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet (Leipzig, 1928), 119-24; Catalogus exquisitae bibliothecae pastoris Niesert Velenae... (Borken, 1842) [sale stated to be on 14 Mar. 1843, but actually July 1843, according to manuscript note by Bulkeley Bandinell in the Bodleian copy]; the greater part of his library is now in the University Library of Münster; some items were acquired by the Bodleian before his sale, according to B-437(1).
noteJoseph Niesert (1766-1841), 1820; inscription on [*1r]: 'Bibliothecae J. Niesert parochi in Velen. 1820'; sale (1843), lot 320.