HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ; S. XIII in.

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Title

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ; S. XIII in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 160

Place of origin

Germany, Rhineland

Date

S. XIII in.

Language

Latin

CCSL cont. med. 43–43A, this copy (O), described in 43, pp. xlviii-xlix; one of ten copies, of which two are now lost. No stemma codicum is offered or discussion of the transmission. No further information is found in M. Schrader and A. Führkötter, Die Echtheit des Schrifttums der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen (Köln-Graz, 1956).

(fols. 1–127v) HILDEGARD OF BINGEN Liber Sciuias

(fols. 23–5) Capitula for Pars II, which ends on fol. 66v.

(fols. 67–70v) Capitula for Pars III.

Fols. 128–30v blank but for unfinished circular diagrams of the winds, s. xiii, on fols. 128v and 129v, and pen-trials on 129v and 130. At the foot of fol. 1v, cropped, is ‘Qui hunc librum transcribere uoluerit rubricas in suis locis id est in capitulorum exordio diligenter conscribat nam in hoc libro breuiandi causa omissa fuerunt. Notandum etiam quasdam [ ... ]’

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

132 leaves (i + 131)The edges savagely retrimmed with loss of marginalia, and spattered with red. A tear in the parchment on fol. 54 closed with green silk stitching.

Hands

German early gothic bookhands.

Decoration

Red initials, titles (mostly in the margins or between the cols), touching and occasional underlining.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i and 131 are paper binding leaves. Near the foot of the last few parchment leaves is the mark of the large iron chain-staple. The last leaf was pasted down in an earlier binding.

Provenance

Made in Germany, probably in the Rhineland.

On fol. 130 is twice pencilled ‘XVΘ’; reagent may have removed more.

At the College probably by c. 1500, certainly by 1556: UO65. 387.

On a sheet of paper inside the front cover are ‘F. 6, 1’ (canc.) and titles, s. xvii, and ‘O. 5. 11. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘L. 2. 9 (CLX)’ in red; the College bookplate. The title of s. xvii is also written at the head, on the turn-in. At the head of fol. 1 is ‘Liber Coll. Merton in Acc: Oxon’’, s. xvii or xviii. ‘11’ is inked on the foredge.

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