Beschreibung:

Two bifolia from a philosophical text citing Aristotle, De Anima, and the works of St. Augustine among others, in Latin, from the medieval library of the Carthusians of Buxheim, manuscript on parchment [southern Germany (Bavaria, probably Buxheim, near Memmingen), thirteenth century] 4 leaves (2 bifolia), each leaf with double column of 58 lines in a tiny hairline early gothic script, spaces left for rubrics and initials, recovered from reuse on a later binding and hence torn at top with losses to a few lines, trimmed along one vertical side with same, scuffed at reverse with slight loss of legibility there, overall fair and presentable condition, each leaf approximately 225 by 159mm. With the late medieval ex libris of the Carthusians of Buxheim: Kartusiens de bustheim written vertically along outer margin of one page. The monastery was founded in 1402, and rapidly expanded to become one of the largest Charterhouses in Germany. They quickly focussed their activities on book production and building up their library, so that by the early sixteenth century it numbered over a thousand volumes and was among the very largest in Europe. By the seventeenth century it appears that the medieval parts of the library were seen as superfluous by the monks, and some of their books appeared in the Paris book trade in the seventeenth century. The house was dissolved in 1803, and the remaining library with many of the other goods passed to the Counts of Ostein. Due to financial mismanagement the family was forced to liquidate its assets, and some 16,680 volumes from the library were sold in Munich in 1883, with the unsolds passing to the booksellers Ludwig and Nathan Rosenthal. The early printed book which these presumably were used to bind, must have been among the 540 incunabula in that sale.