Metadata: Suchen Manuscript
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University College London
- Holding institution (official language):
- University College London
- Postal address:
- POST:UCL Library Services, UCL (University College London), Gower StreetLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1E 6BT
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 7792
- Web address:
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections
- Email:
- Email: library@ucl.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS GERM 21
- Title:
- Suchen Manuscript
- Title (official language):
- Suchen Manuscript
- Creator/accumulator:
- Suchen, Petrus, fl before 15th century, author of a manuscript on the Holy Land
- Date(s):
- 1400/1499
- Language:
- English
- German
- Gothic
- Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian
- Extent:
- 1 volume containing 122 leaves
- Scope and content:
- Manuscript volume, 15th century: Petrus Suchen, 'Reise In Das Heilige Land' (Journey in the Holy Land). The text is divided into 126 chapters, but 16 are wanting and four are partly missing, owing to the loss of folios.
- Archival history:
- The manuscript belonged in 1654 to the Augustinian hermits of Fribourg, Switzerland. It later belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MS 24505. Bearing also on the inside front cover: a 68.655; and on the back of the binding: 966.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The manuscript belonged in 1654 to the Augustinian hermits of Fribourg, Switzerland. It later belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MS 24505. Bearing also on the inside front cover: a 68.655; and on the back of the binding: 966.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Suchen, Petrus
- Subject terms:
- Manuscripts
- Access, restrictions:
- Open.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.ucl.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MS+GERM%2f21
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- University College London