Sermon collection of Conrad Ubelin; De passione domini; Carthusian visitation sermons. A, B Germany (probably Erfurt Charterhouse), 15th century, second half, partly 1459
MS. Hamilton 42
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Sermon collection of Conrad Ubelin; De passione domini; Carthusian visitation sermons. A, B Germany (probably Erfurt Charterhouse), 15th century, second half, partly 1459
Shelfmark
MS. Hamilton 42
Place of origin
Germany, probably at least in part Erfurt, charterhouse
Germany, probably Erfurt, charterhouse
Date
15th century, second half, probably c. 1475
c. 1459
Language
German
Latin
Contents
Physical extent
ii (unfoliated) + 289 + ii (unfoliated)
Binding
Blind-stamped half-leather binding, late 15th century or early 16th century, over wooden boards; stamps including lily, rosette (several varieties), not identified; boards a modern replacement. Fol. 289, an endleaf, has a variant of the grapes watermark similar to examples from the 1530s (e.g. WZIS DE8085-PO-128965).
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
Provenance
Erfurt Carthusians: identifiable as O 35(4) in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue (ed. P. Lehmann, p. 496 and n). Pressmark O 35 on a label on the front cover. Fragmentary fifteenth-century ex libris on the verso of the first (unfoliated) leaf.
Not certainly identifiable in the 1836 catalogue of Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
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