Sermons for Lent; A, B Germany, 15th century, probably first half, and c. 1400
MS. Hamilton 41
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Sermons for Lent; A, B Germany, 15th century, probably first half, and c. 1400
Shelfmark
MS. Hamilton 41
Associated place
Mainz
Place of origin
Germany
Gotha, Germany
German
Date
1389 × 1404
14th century, late, or 15th century, early
15th century, probably first half
15th century, early?
Language
German
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Physical extent
ii (modern) + 1 + 264 (199 + 65) + ii (modern) leaves (i-ii, 1–267)
Binding
White leather on boards, fifteenth-century, rebacked and mended; contemporary labels with title ('Duo opera quadragesimalia') and pressmark (C. VI). Clasps lost; bosses on the lower and perhaps also the upper board lost.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
Provenance
Erfurt, Benedictine abbey of SS Peter and Paul: liber sancti patria in erfordia (upper pastedown); pressmarks C. vi, C 6 (binding and fol. 2) C. 13 (fol. 1v)
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831: probably identifiable as 321 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 ('Duplex collectio sermonum quadragesimalium').
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
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