A John of Wales, Postilla in Apocalypsim; Germany, 15th century, second quarter or middle B Agostino Trionfo on Hebrews and James; Germany, c. 1430–1440

Title

A John of Wales, Postilla in Apocalypsim; Germany, 15th century, second quarter or middle B Agostino Trionfo on Hebrews and James; Germany, c. 1430–1440

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 31

Place of origin

Germany

Date

c. 1430–40 (watermark)

15th century, second quarter or middle (watermarks, script)

Language

Latin

Contents

Physical extent

1 (original paper endleaf) + 235 (179 + 56) + 1 (original parchment endleaf) folios

Binding

Ruled and stamped binding with cut-leather decoration (the Virgin and Child) on the upper board: attributed by Hermann Herbst to Tider Woltmann and subsequently by Ilse Schunke to the workshop of the Braunschweig cathedral binder, active c. 1433–1440; see F. A. Schmidt-Künsemüller, Corpus Der Gotischen Lederschitteinbände Aus Dem Deutschen Sprachgebiet (1980) no. 416, with references. The stamps are Schwenke-Schunke Rosette 49, but also a rosette not listed in Schwenke-Schunke, but associated in EBDB with Woltmann (s014638). Clasps lost; cornerpieces and centrepiece lost. Contemporary labels on the upper board with contents and pressmark. Tabs.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Erfurt, Carthusian abbey: ex libris, fifteenth-century, on both pastedowns; another, fol. 118r; ex libris, 17th century (?), fol. 1; pressmark C 91 on label on the upper cover; listed under that pressmark in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, II: Erfurt, ed. P. Lehmann (1928), p. 292).

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831: identifiable as 177 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856