Legenda de s. Fide, etc.

Title

Legenda de s. Fide, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 64

Place of origin

Austrian (?)

Date

14th century

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i+91 leaves (fol. i is a flyleaf),

Hands

Written, probably in Austria, in the 14th cent, in a large textura similar to MS. 59

Decoration

Red initials and headings.

Binding

14th cent, binding of wooden boards covered with puce stained sheepskin; original sewing; there were originally two metal clasps on leather straps fastening to pins on the lower cover, of which one survives; compare the fastening of MS. 50; contemporary title written on the upper cover: on the lower cover, two later paper labels with title and shelfmark: E.

Acquisition

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Provenance

Formerly in the library of the abbey of Melk, in Austria: E. 104 in the 1483 catalogue; see Gottlieb, MittelaU. Bibl. kat. Österreichs 1, 1915, p. 231. On fol. i is the 17th-cent.(?) note: Monasterii Mellicensis 1. 39. In the 18th cent, it had the shelfmark Q. 34, see M. Kropff, Bibl. Mellicensis, 1747, p. 35, and on the spine is 897 (19th cent.).

Bought by Lyell in October 1939 from E. P. Goldschmidt and Co.; see their List 33, 1939, no. 5, with reproduction of fol. 81v on cover.

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948