Thomas Aquinas, Prima secundae; Germany (?Erfurt), 15th century, middle

Title

Thomas Aquinas, Prima secundae; Germany (?Erfurt), 15th century, middle

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 11

Associated place

Erfurt

Place of origin

Germany, perhaps Erfurt

Date

15th century, middle (c. 1450–60)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper. Watermarks: bull's head with latin cross and six-pointed star (Piccard xi.216–35, cf. 217); bull's head with latin cross and seven-petalled flower (type Piccard xi.311–353, cf. 336–7); scales (type Piccard i.301–11); dreiburg with cross, type Piccard vii.2175–2392 (cf. 2205, 2210 etc.)

Physical extent

1 + 361 + 1 leaves (foliated 1–360; 18, 223 and 227 are double; 18b, 67, 223b and 227b are inserted slips; other slips, unfoliated, are between 90 and 91, 94 and 95)

Hands

Cursive by several hands.

Decoration

6-line initial Q with silhouette decoration, fol. 1ra.

3–4 line and 2–3 line initials in red with simple decoration marking different levels of textual division.

Binding

Brown leather over boards, blind-stamped; clasps and bosses lost. Protective corners and (on the tail edge) shoes partly survive. Workshop of Johannes Fogel (Erfurt, c. 1455–1462; Einbanddatenbank 500116s). Tabs.

Acquisition

Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.

Provenance

Erfurt, Carthusians: ex libris, 15th century, upper pastedown and lower pastedown and on fol. 182r.

Not certainly identifiable in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue: perhaps L88 ('Item prima pars 2. partis'; ed. Lehmann, MBK II.465)

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831, 56c in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 (cf. upper pastedown)

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856