Nicholas of Lyre on the Gospels; Germany, 15th century, first quarter

Title

Nicholas of Lyre on the Gospels; Germany, 15th century, first quarter

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 16

Place of origin

Germany

Date

15th century, first quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper. Watermarks: (a) more than one variant of bull's head with six-pointed star (type Piccard vi.101–279; fol. 352 resembles WZIS DE1185-S326_257) and with six-petalled flower (type Piccard xii.231–363); (b) bell (e.g. fol. 152) ; (c) (e.g. fol. 43) lily with eight-pointed star (type Piccard i.343–351).

Physical extent

1 + 357 + 1 (i, 1–358; fols. i, 358 are original parchment endleaves)

Hands

Cursiva.

Lemmata in textualis.

Decoration

7–8 line 'silhouette' initials in black and red, including foliate, human and animal motifs, fols. 1ra, 115va, 145ra, 216ra; two-line initials in black and red with modest arabesque decoration.

Binding

Contemporary binding of tawed skin, ruled, over boards; clasps and bosses lost. Paper label on the upper board with pressmark N xii. Tabs (one lost) at the beginning of each gospel.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Erfurt, Benedictine monastery of St Peter: liber sancti petri in erfordia, 15th century, and pressmark C (or E?) j, fol. i recto; pressmark C (or E?) j, fol. 1r; pressmark N xii on the binding. Fol. 113 in the catalogue of 1783.

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow: no. 25b in the 1836 sale catalogue of his library; cf. inscription, fol. 1r.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856