Willelmus de Monte Lauduno, De sacramentis; Giovanni Calderini, Tabulae auctoritatum et sententiarum Bibliae; canon law; etc. Germany (?Erfurt), late 14th or early 15th century.

Title

Willelmus de Monte Lauduno, De sacramentis; Giovanni Calderini, Tabulae auctoritatum et sententiarum Bibliae; canon law; etc. Germany (?Erfurt), late 14th or early 15th century.

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 24

Place of origin

Germany, area of Erfurt (?)

Date

14th century, late, or 15th century, early (watermarks)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper, folded in folio. Watermarks: bull's head with six-petalled flower, cf. Piccard xii.231; bull's head with six-petalled flower, cf. WZIS DE1335-PO-65332, etc. (1397 etc.); stag's head with five-petalled flower, not resembling Piccard ii.385–7, close to WZIS DE5580-Clm3086_1(1397)

Physical extent

iii (modern) + 216 + iii (modern) leaves

Hands

Cursive by two scribes, (a) fols. 1–201va, (b) fols. 201va-215rb. Addition on fols. 215va-216vb by hand a or a third hand.

Decoration

Coloured red initials mostly of 2–3 lines sometimes with simple decoration. Rubrication and decoration unfinished, fols. 200-end.

Binding

Fifteenth-century binding of tawed skin over boards; damaged and repaired; contemporary contents label. Rebacked. Tabs.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Fols. 200ra-201va suggest an origin in Thuringia.

Erfurt, Charterhouse: typical fifteenth-century table of contents, with ex libris; another fifteenth-century ex libris, fol. 119r; catalogue, A 30 (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands ... II.255); 17th-century (?) ex libris, fol. 1r.

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow: identifiable as no. 206 in the 1836 sale catalogue.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856