Robert Holcot, Ps.-Augustine, etc.; Germany, 1444–1445

Title

Robert Holcot, Ps.-Augustine, etc.; Germany, 1444–1445

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 26

Place of origin

Germany, area of Podelzig or Lebus(?)

Date

1444 and 1445

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

258 fols.

Hands

Written by Petrus Meyszner. The colophon on fol. 206 covers fols. 2–260a and perhaps 206b-210v. The colophon on fol. 228 covers fols. 211v-228. The colophon on fol. 257v covers fols. 235v-257v and perhaps 228–234v.

Decoration

Puzzle initials, sometimes with penwork flourishing in blue and red.

Coloured initials (red, blue and green) with simple decoration.

Rubrics.

Binding

Fifteenth-century binding of brown leather over boards, ruled in blind; clasps and bosses lost; remains of contemporary contents label.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Iste liber est domini Petri Meysner plebani ville Podolczk (inside front cover)

Cistercian abbey of Neuzelle, near Guben: Liber Noue Celle sancte Marie, 15th century, fol. 1.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856