Works of Ioannes Hagen de Indagine and others

Title

Works of Ioannes Hagen de Indagine and others

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. d. 13

Place of origin

German, Erfurt, Charterhouse of Salvatorberg

German, Erfurt (?)

German, Erfurt

Date

15th century, second half

15th century, second half (c. 1460–71)

15th century, second half (c. 1458–9)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper; fabric tab dividers at the opening of each work

Physical extent

ii (modern endleaves) + 366 (foliated 3–368) + i (modern endleaf)

Binding

Pulpboard lined with marbled paper and backed with white leather, 18th or 19th century.

Acquisition

Purchased, 1929: notice in Oxford University Gazette (5 March 1930), p. 397.

Provenance

Charterhouse of Salvatorberg. Some booklets are autographs of Ioannes Hagen de Indagine, dated 1457, 1458, 1459, 1460, 1468. These correspond to his periods of activity at Erfurt: 1440–54, 1457–60, and 1467–1475 × 76. Examples of his script also appear in MS. Hamilton 46, MS. Hamilton 48, MS. Hamilton 49, MS. Hamilton 54, and MS. Hamilton 57. Inscribed, Ad Carthusiam Erford (head fore-edge, 16th century?); Cartusiæ Erford (fol. 1r, 17th or 18th century). Not identifiable in the medieval catalogue.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, 6 November 1878, lot no. 284. Sale catalogue listing pasted to an endleaf alongside a clipping from an unidentified newspaper on the Death warrant of Christ, a piece that ran in several American publications in 1866.