Passio s. Eustachii; Haimo on Apocalypse

Title

Passio s. Eustachii; Haimo on Apocalypse

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 65

Place of origin

German

Date

12th century, late

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Hands

Written in Germany in the late 12th cent.

Decoration

Headings in red: lemmata of the text of the Apocalypse underlined in red, except on fol. 177, where they are written in red.

Vinescroll type initial in red and violet ink on fol. 9r, and small initial in blue and red on fol. 113v; decorated red initials on fols. 1r, 8v, 41r, 80v, 98v, 127v, 145v. (Pächt and Alexander i. 93)

Binding

Contemporary binding of thick wooden boards covered with smooth white leather, with tabs projecting at top and bottom of spine; original sewing; chain mark on top of the back cover. Leather strap fastening to pin on upper edge, clasps (one missing) probably contemporary. 15th-cent. title on upper cover, later title on spine.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

The top of fol. 1, which may have had an inscription, has been cut off.

Formerly in the library of the Premonstratensian monastery of Steinfeld in the Eifel, in the diocese of Cologne, deleted contemporary note on fol. 8r: liber ecclesie sancte Marie sanctique Potentini in Steinvelt. On the front cover is written: 56; on the spine N 9 and on fol. 1: Loc: 255: N: 13 (18th cent.). For the Steinfeld MSS. see P. Bloch, Aachener Kunstblätter 22 (1961), 37–60.

Later acquired by Leander van Ess of Darmstadt: no. 31 in his sale catalogue of 1823.

Bought in 1824 by Sir Thomas Phillipps: no. 416 in his library; and lot 29 in the Phillipps sale, Sotheby’s 6–9 June 1910.

Bought by Lyell in July 1942 from Quaritch; see B. Quaritch, Cat. of MSS., 1931, no. 29 and plate (fol. 9r).

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948