Sermones de sanctis, etc.; Michael de Massa, Super Passionem; Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea. Germany: A 1405, B 15th century, first quarter, C 14th century, second half

Title

Sermones de sanctis, etc.; Michael de Massa, Super Passionem; Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea. Germany: A 1405, B 15th century, first quarter, C 14th century, second half

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 14

Place of origin

Germany, perhaps Mulknitz or area as suggested by the additions on fols. 151va-152rb

Germany

Date

15th century, first quarter

14th century, second half

1405

Language

Latin

German

Contents

Physical extent

235 (154 + 26 + 55) fols. (foliated 1–234, 57 is double)

Musical notation

Offsets on the lower board from a fourteenth-century (?) liturgical manuscript with musical notation; fragments of the same manuscript in the binding.

Binding

Early (?) fifteenth-century binding of plain pigskin over boards; remains of title written on the upper cover; clasp lost; bosses on the upper and lower boards lost.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Neuzelle, Cistercian abbey (?): suggested by the placenames in part A, by the fact that Neuzelle was a source of other manuscripts in the Hamilton collection, and (as noted by Watson) by the existence of another manuscript from Neuzelle (Swann Galleries, New York, sale 1133 (8 March 1979) no. 198; present location unknown) written also in 1405 by 'Johannes Faber de Pyzna'.

Not identifiable in the 1836 sale catalogue of Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856