Franciscus de Abbatibus, etc.; Germany, 15th century
MS. Hamilton 27
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Franciscus de Abbatibus, etc.; Germany, 15th century
Shelfmark
MS. Hamilton 27
Place of origin
Germany
Date
c. 1420–30
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper, folded in folio. Watermarks: bull's head with seven-petalled flower and two leaves, cf. Piccard xii.626 (1422–5); sword, cf. Piccard vii.422–7 (1419–24), 488–92 (1424–8); bull’s head with cross, cf. Piccard xi.106–9 (1416–26); bull’s head with six-pointed star, cf. Piccard vi.271–8 (1419–36).
Physical extent
298 folios, not including fol. 218, an inserted slip.
Hands
Cursive by two hands, (a) fols. 1r-152v, 167r-end; (b) fols. 153r-167r, 218r, and annotations throughout.
Decoration
Six-line red initial with simple silhouette decoration, fol. 1r.
Elsewhere three-line red initials with simple decoration.
Binding
15th-century binding of plain whittawed skin over boards, damaged; clasps and bosses (on upper and lower boards) lost. Tabs.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
Provenance
Erfurt, Charterhouse: identifiable as O 19 in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue (ed. Lehmann, p 493).
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831 (?): probably identifiable as 211 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 ('FRANCISCI ASSISlNATIS Postilla super evangelia dominicalia per totum annum').
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
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