Commonplace book including notes on Old Testament books; Germany, 15th century
MS. Hamilton 40
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Commonplace book including notes on Old Testament books; Germany, 15th century
Shelfmark
MS. Hamilton 40
Place of origin
German
Date
15th century
12th century
14th century
13th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
ii (medieval parchment) + 352 leaves + i (medieval parchment)
Hands
Gothic cursive
Decoration
Apparently only one coloured initial (fol. 47b)
Otherwise none.
Binding
Medieval. Bound in half brown leather over wood boards, sewn on three double/slit bands. Flyleaves and former pastedowns using 12th-, 13th-, and 14th-cent. MS. waste. Vestiges of a single clasp. Red fore-edge tabs. Spine with 19th-cent. gilt leather label ‘40’.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857. Formerly ‘Addit. Bodl. III. D. 7’ (fol. ii r).
Provenance
Written presumably for private use, with many marginal annotations and many added texts on tipped-in slips of paper of varying sizes.
Erfurt, Charterhouse: their ownership inscription (fol.1r) and shelfmark ‘B 93’ (front board). Not identifiable under this shelfmark in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue, but probably to be identified with B. 53: ‘Memoriale in biblia, in quo multa conscripta sunt breviter et truncate ad sciendum et requirendum loco biblie, ubi scribuntur. Qualiter aliqui devoti decipiuntur per sensibiles consolaciones [cf. heading, fol. 1r]. Que monere et inducere debent hominem, ut non solum pacienter, sed eciam gaudenter paciatur pro Christo. De 7 peccatis criminalibus. Suspirium b. Augustini [cf. fol. 47b]. Originale peccatum quid sit. Dolor contricionis quante efficacie sit, et hic multum consolatur peccator. Exerpta multa de multis libris biblie ad habendum memorie quasi per aliqua puncta eorum, que in diversis locis scribuntur.’ (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, II, 278)
Not identifiable in the catalogue of the sale of Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1836.
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
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