Jordanus de Quedlingburg — 15th century, first half, c. 1425–30 (watermarks); Germany

Title

Jordanus de Quedlingburg — 15th century, first half, c. 1425–30 (watermarks); Germany

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 28

Place of origin

Germany

Date

15th century, first half, c. 1425–30 (watermarks)

Language

German

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper, folded in quarto. Watermarks: bull's head with six-pointed star, cf. Piccard vi.271–2 (1416–23); bull's head with six-pointed star, no close parallels found in Piccard; sword, cf. Piccard vii.416–8 (1421–2); bull's head with six-pointed star and circle, cf. Piccard vi.415 (1428–9); bull's head with seven-petalled flower, cf. Piccard xii.423–4 (1423–4)

Physical extent

323 folios (Except for fols. 225–36, 290 215 )

Hands

Cursive; several hands.

Decoration

Three- to seven-line red or red-and-black initials, often with simple silhouette decoration.

Rubrication mostly lacking.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Erased note, with name 'Nicolaus' on the upper pastedown; not recoverable under ultra-violet; the Summary Catalogue suggested the date 1435 might be present, but this is no longer legible.

Erfurt, St Peter's: ex libris, upper pastedown, with note '1470 datus est nobis'. J. Theele, Die Handschriften des Benediktinerklosters S. Petri zu Erfurt (1920), no. 212, pp. 173-4 and M. Eifler Die Bibliothek des Erfurter Peterklosters im spaten Mittelalter (2017), no. 270, II.882, interpreted this note as referring to the donation of the manuscript to St Peter's, but it may also refer to its later donation to the Erfurt Charterhouse (see below); if this is the case then 'Jordani sermones de sanctis' in the 1783 St Peter's catalogue (fol. 169, Theele p. 65) must be a different volume. Pressmark C XXV, C 25 (on upper pastedown and upper board) of St Peter's Erfurt (cf. Eifler II.1061).

Erfurt, Charterhouse: apparently given to the Charterhouse by St Peter's in 1470, see above, if the later statement about the manuscript's provenance in Bülow's 1836 catalogue is reliable (see below). Identified by Balázs Nemes as O.60 in the medieval catalogue of the Charterhouse ('Jordanus ... plura scripsit: ... Sermones de sanctis, O. 60', ed. P. Lehmann, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz II, Bistum Mainz, Erfurt (1928), 559.34-6).

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831: identifiable as 124 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 ('JORDANUS De sanctis (a. 1470 Cartus. Erford. legatus)').

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856