Sermons and sermon-materials; Germany, 15th century

Title

Sermons and sermon-materials; Germany, 15th century

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 37

Place of origin

Germany

Date

15th century, probably first quarter (watermark)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

270 + i

Binding

Medieval binding. Sewn onto four double bands and bound into uncoloured pigskin over wood boards, blind-tooled with a lattice pattern, a flower in each of the interstices. Vestiges of two clasps. The front cover with two paper labels, one with a title (almost illegible), the other with the Erfurt shelfmark ‘O.21’. Pink leather and other tabs at the fore-edge. A loose alum-tawed? bookmark follows fol. 242.

Acquisition

Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: ‘Addit. Bodl. MSS. III.D.4.’ (front pastedown)

Provenance

Erfurt (Carthusians), their O.21; catalogue, ed. P. Lehmann, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, II (München 1928) 494, ‘Mistici sermones de tempore et sunt iidem cum precedentibus, licet non habeantur hic integre, quia in principio est defectus et forte eciam alibi non ordinate hic ponuntur sicut in precedenti volumine. Sermones boni de sanctis, sed non ita misticati sicut illi de tempore. Quadragesimale. Passio Domini multum prolixa. Alii multi sermones de variis materiis, de certis temporibus, de certis sanctis et festivitatibus, de s. Elizabet, Katharina, Johanne evangelista etc., de novo sacerdote, de sinodo, de elimosina, de penitencia, oracione, anathemate, de capite ieiunii, dedicacione etc. De concepcione b. Marie sermo Heinrici de Oyta, item alius de eadem, de nativitate b. virginis, purificacione, annunciacione etc.’

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831 (?), perhaps identifiable as 101 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 (‘Sermones mystici de tempore, una cum aliis sermonibus’)

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856