Canon law; A-D Germany (mostly Leipzig), 15th century, first half (mostly 1421)

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Title

Canon law; A-D Germany (mostly Leipzig), 15th century, first half (mostly 1421)

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 39

Associated place

Uelzen

Wetzlar

Schwalbach

Place of origin

Germany, (chiefly) Leipzig

Date

14th century, late or 15th century, early

15th century, first half (mostly 1421)

Language

Latin

MS. Hamilton 39 – Part A (fols. 1–129)

1. (fols. 1ra–126va)

1.1. (fols. 1ra–101rb) ⟨Summaria capitulorum seu Casus summarii Decretalium Gregorii IX⟩

(fols. 1ra–24rb) Rubric: Rubrica de Summa Trinitate et Fide Catholica [later hand]

(fols. 24va–46rb) Rubric: De iudiciis II liber

(fols. 46va–69vb) Rubric: De vite et honestate clericorum III

(fols. 70ra–76vb) Rubric: De sponsalibus et matrimoniis IIII liber

(fols. 77ra–101rb) Rubric: V De accusacionibus et inquisicionibus et denunciacionibus

1.2. (fols. 101va–126va) ⟨Summaria capitulorum seu Casus summarii Libri sexti decretalium ⟩

1.3. (fol. 125vb–126va) Boniface VIII Liber sextus: De regulis iuris

2. (fol. 126v–127r, margin) A later hand adds notes from the Stella clericorum, the Speculum exemplorum attributed to Johannes Busch, and the Revelations of St Bridget.

3. (fols. 126vb–127vb) Epistola Luciferi

4. (fols. 127vb–129ra) Cf. Wiesbaden, Nassauischen Landesbibliothek, Hs. 25 fol. 339v; (in part) BnF, Latin 8931, fols. 256–257v.

⟨Casus reservati⟩

⟨Casus in quibus⟩

MS. Hamilton 39 – Part B (fols. 130–165)

1. (fols. 130ra–158vc) ⟨Vocabularius utrius iuris cum tabula⟩

(fols. 130ra–145va) ⟨Epitome exactis regibus⟩

(fols. 145va–154vb) Followed immediately by three other alphabetical vocabularies all presented as one continuous text:

⟨Expositiones titulorum Decretalium⟩

Incipit: (fol. 147ra) Ambicio est inordinatum desiderium honoris

Incipit: (fol. 147vb) Aduersio est assumpcio cuius operis pro certa mercede

Incipit: (fol. 150ra)A quandoque facit separacionem et quandoque includit

Rubric: De significacionibus anni

(fols. 154vb–158vc) Incipit: 206 A | 52 ABigeus | 106 Abolicio

2. (fol. 158vb List of the archdioceses in Germany and the dioceses within them

3. (fols. 159–165) ⟨Johannes de Lignano⟩ ⟨De horis canonicis⟩

MS. Hamilton 38 – Part C (fols. 166–261)

1. (fols. 166ra–261rb) ⟨Commentary on Adam of Aldersbach, Summula Raymundi⟩

MS. Hamilton 38 – Part D (fols. 262–274)

1. (fols. 262ra–265ra) Incipit: Distinctus est librum decretorum in tres partes. Prima vocatur distincciones eo quod distincta sit in particulas centum et vna, que particule vocatur distincciones

2. (fols. 265ra–270rb)

(fols. 265ra–269ra) ⟨Johannes Andreae⟩ ⟨Lectura arboris consanguinitas⟩

(fols. 269ra–270rb) ⟨Distincio de successionibus⟩

3. (fols. 270v–273v) Repetitio de usuris

4. (fol. 274r) Verses on the ten plagues, ten commandments, ten trespasses; added, later hand

Incipit: Ydola fecit homo dominum iuravit inique

6. (fol. 274r, slip pasted on) Acknowledgement by Nicholaus Wilberg of the sale to the 'archipresbyter' of Wetzlar (Wesflariensi) of a Liber decretalium and a Speculum humanae salvationis in 1471

7. (fol. 274v, fragment pasted on) Fragment of a document mentioning 'Swalbach' (Schwalbach (Schöffengrund?)) perhaps relating to gifts to the parish church ('... dat ad fabricam et plebano ...'). Mistakenly described as a German-language document in the Summary Catalogue.

MS. Hamilton 38 - endleaf (fol. ii)

Document concerning a benefaction to the church of Uelzen ('Vltzen'); issued by 'Turibius episcopus Tuden(sis)' [Tui-Vigo, Spain; occ. 1403, P. M. Baumgarten, Von der Apostolischen kanzlei (1908), 37] in the second year of his pontificate.

Form

codex

Physical extent

ii (paper) + 1 (parchment, former pastedown) + 274 + 1 (paper, repaired, = fol. 274) + ii folios (132 is double)

Binding

15th-century binding of blind-ruled and stampted leather over boards, rebacked. Tabs. The stamps are rosette of six leaves (Einbanddatenbank m002438); rosette of four leaves.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Dated on fols. 46, 69v, 76v, 101, 126v, 165, 261; the undated sections are contemporary except for short texts added later in the fifteenth century. Fols. 262–274 not dated, but the watermark is compatible with a date of c. 1421 or perhaps a little later.

Erfurt, Carthusian abbey: identifiable as A23(2) in the late-fifteenth-century catalogue (ed. P. Lehmann, pp. 253–4).

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831, probably identifiable as 234 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856

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