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A Sermons, quaestiones, etc. from Leipzig University; artes praedicandi. B Augustinus de Ancona, Tractatus de angelica annuntiatione. Germany, 15th century, first half

MS. Hamilton 44

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Title

A Sermons, quaestiones, etc. from Leipzig University; artes praedicandi. B Augustinus de Ancona, Tractatus de angelica annuntiatione. Germany, 15th century, first half

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 44

Place of origin

German

German, Leipzig

Date

15th century, first half

15th century, second quarter

14th century, middle or second half

Language

Latin

Contents

(fols. ir, iir) Two tables of contents. The later list (fol. i r) was originally pasted over the earlier list (fol. ii r) and was lifted after the Bodleian shelfmarks were added. Both lists seem to cover the whole volume but the earlier list covers only fols. 1–163 in detail. There are fragments of offset text from binding fragments, no longer present in the volume, on fol. [ii] verso.
MS. Hamilton 44 – Part 1 (fols. 1–200)
1. (fols. 1r–168r) Sermons from Leipzig University
1.1. (fols. 1r–95v) Items in this section numbered 18 to 31 (the numbers often cropped, and not all items are numbered). The first 17 items had been lost by the time the table of contents was created.
1.1.1. (fols. 1r–6r) Incipit: Filii hominum usquequo graui cordi ut quid diligitis vanitatem et quaeritis mendacium Ps. iiij Reuerendissimi magistri patres ac domini prestantissimi noscis dum musici dulces gestiunt facere symphonias
1.1.2. (fols. 6v–10r) Incipit: Repleti sunt omnes spiritu sancto Act. iiº caº scripta sunt verba hec origenaliter et in die penthecostes fuerunt recitata leccionaliter et prothemate presentis collacionis assumpta sunt doctrinaliter
1.1.3. (fols. 10v–17v) Incipit: Spiritus sanctus quem mittet pater in nomine mea docebit vos omnia Joh. xiiijº et in hodierne festivitatis ewangelio. Reverendissimi magistri patres ac domini plurimum venerandi. Teste sacra scriptura ac humana experiencia, tria sunt inter cetera diuini eloquii predicatori plurimum necessarii
1.1.4. (fols. 18r–24r) Incipit: Dominum deum tuum adorabis. Scribitur Mathei iiijº et Luce iiijº capitulis et in precedentis dominice ewangelio officiatur et Deuto. vjº origenaliter. Reverendi patres et doctores magistri ceteri que domini ac christi fideles, Quia teste scriptura pulchri debent esse pedes, id est affectiones
1.1.5. (fols. 25r–33r) Rubric: Sermo ad cleros in die assumpcionis marie magistri hermanni torgow
1.1.6. (fol. 33r) Incipit: Recommendo vobis statum sancte matris ecclesie […] Recommendo vobis illustres principes et dominos Frid. et Will. March. nec non Landgr. Thuringie huius alme uniuersitatis doctores\donatores/
1.1.7. (fol. 33v) Rubric: Aliud thema de assumpcione
1.1.8. (fols. 34r–44v) Rubric: Sermo magistri Johannis Czach sacre theologie baccalarii formati de eodem
1.1.9. (fols. 45r–50v) Incipit: Inpleti sunt dies purgacionis marie Reuerendi magistri patres ac domini plurimum honorandi, Beatus Hieronymus volens dignitatem marie nobis insinuare loquitur hoc modo, Que natura, inquit, non habuit, usus nesciuit
1.1.10. (fols. 50v–'55–56'v) Rubric: Sermo fratris Johannis de Halberstad ordinis predicatorum vicarii in spiritualibus sacre theologie baccalarii. Sequitur sermo de annunciacione eiusdem.
1.1.11. (fols. '55–56'v–60r) Rubric: \⟨M⟩agistri Andreo/
1.1.12. (fols. 60r–68v) Rubric: Sermo magistri Andree Brode sacre theologie professoris factus coram universitatem post confirmacionem domini Fred. ducis saxonie sacri romani electoris imperii
1.1.13. (fols. 68v–74v) Rubric: Sermo magistri Hermanni Torgaw de ascensione domini
1.1.14. (fols. 75r–81v) Rubric: \M. Groskop/
1.1.15. (fols. 82r–92v) Rubric: \M(agistri) Pauli/
1.1.16. (fols. 92v–93v) Rubric: Materia de nouo anno
1.1.17. (fol. 93v–94v) Rubric: Item alia materia de eodem
1.1.18. (fol. 94va–95rb) Rubric: De virginitate [running head]
1.1.19. (fol. 95rb–va) ⟨On Ecclesiasticus 24.12⟩
1.2. (fols. 96r–141v)
1.2.1. (fols. 96r–105(a)v, 106r) ⟨Recommendatio sacrae scripturae⟩
1.2.2. (fol. 105b recto) Incipit: Et primo regracior venerabili domino viro ac domino […] rectori dignissimo […] De hinc regracior venerabilibus dominis doctoribus sacre theologie professoribus qui me ad legendum cursum in sacra theologia concorditer assumpserunt
1.2.3. (fols. 108r–111v) Rubric: Principium in 3m et 4m sententiarum
1.2.4. (fols. 111v–113v) Rubric: Recommendacio sacre scripture
1.2.5. (fols. 113v–115v) Rubric: Recommendacio sacre scripture
1.2.6. (fols. 115v–118r) Rubric: Recommendacio sacre scripture
1.2.7. (fol. 118r–v) Rubric: Recommendacio sacre scripture siue principium in genesim
1.2.8. (fols. 119r–122v) Incipit: Ecce sanus factus es Ita scribitur Johannis ijº capitulo originaliter et in hodierno ewangelio leccionaliter. Venerandi patres magistri et domini mei, Humanum genus generosum per actum ade viciosum
1.2.9. (fols. 122v–126v) Rubric: Sermo latius
1.2.10. (fols. 126v–129r) Rubric: Sermo latius
1.2.11. (fols. 129v–130v) Rubric: Sermo latius super eandem materiam
1.2.12. (fols.130v–133v) Rubric: Sermo de sancto thoma doctore de aquino
1.2.13. (fol. 134r–139v) ⟨Recommendatio sacrae scripturae⟩
Fols. 140r-141v blank.
1.3. (fols. 142r–164v)
1.3.1. (fols. 142r–147v) Incipit: Lux venit in mundum Scribitur originaliter Joh. iijo et legetur in crastine diei ewangelio. Reverendi […] Cum summa dei bonitas mundum ex nichilo creasset, celum que angelis
1.3.2. (fols. 147v–151r) Incipit: Repleti sunt omnes […] Scribitur actus ij et iiijº capitulis et legitur per ecclesiam in epistola sollempnitatis hodierne. Reuerendissimi patres […] Beatus Bernhardus in sermone de presenti festiuitate paterna monicione nos exhortatur
1.3.3. (fols. 151r–156r) Incipit: Beati pauperes spiritu Scribitur Mt vº. Reverendissimi patres magistri doctores ceterique domini prestantissimi, gloriosus predicator et doctor beatus Augustinus 4º de doctrina christiana modum utilissime predicandi
1.3.4. (fols. 156r–160r) Incipit: Veniat dilectus dominus Scribitur 1 ad Chro. iiijº et in currentis dominice epistolari officio. Reuerendissimi patres magistri ac domini prestantissimi, Teste sensu ac humana experiencia pulchritudo rei corporalis inter cetera principaliter in 4or
1.3.5. (fols. 160r–163v) Incipit: Gratia vobis et pax […] Reuerendissimi patres […] Teste ysidori libro 3º de summo bono capitulo de exemplo(?) et doctrina prelatorum, predicator verbi dei
Fols. 164r-v blank; no fol. 165.
1.4. (fols. 166r–167v, 168r) Incipit: Honorabiles magistri mei domini patres que plurimum venerandi. Attendentibus nobis meritorum
2. (fols. 168r–172v) Quaestiones
2.1. (fol. 168r) ⟨In librum Topicum⟩
2.2. (fol. 168v–168(bis)v) Incipit: Questio mihi assignata per honorabilem virum et dominum Rectorem ac vicecancellarium proposita est sub hac forma. Utrum locus a coniugatis valeat ad construendum problemata de eodem. Et arguebat venerabilis magister
2.3. (fol. 169r) Rubric: Questio magistri
2.4. (fols. 169v–170v) Incipit: Utrum cuiuslibet(?) virtutis moralis principalior actus est prosequi bonum quam fugere malum
2.5. (fol. 170v–171r) ⟨Quaestio in librum Ethicorum⟩
2.6. (fol. 171r–v) Incipit: R(euerende)(?) Magister quamquam dicta vestra sunt multum magistraliter et subtiliter posita, tamen contra dicta vestra modicum instabo. Et primo
2.7. (fol. 172r–v) Rubric: Posicio bacc'
3. (fols. 172v–187r) Thomas de Tuderto Tractatus de arte sermocinandi
4. (fols. 187v–199r) Alphonsus de Alpram Ars praedicandi
5. (fols. 199r–200v) Sermons
5.1. (fols. 199r–200r) Rubric: Sermo parisius factus anno domini M CCC lxix
5.2. (fol. 200r–v) Rubric: Sermo parisius factus anno domini 1368
MS. Hamilton 44 – Part 2 (fols. 201–283)
1. (fols. 201r–283v)
(fol. 201ra–282ra) Augustinus de Ancona Tractatus de angelica annuntiatione
(fols. 282v–283v) Incipit: Missus est angelus. Utrum conueniens fuerit angelum ad virginem mitti
MS. Hamilton 44 - endleaf (fol. 284)
Statutes of the synod of Prague, 1343

Physical extent

2 (original paper endleaf or lifted pastedown) + i (modern paper endleaf) + 282 (199 + 83) + 1 (parchment endleaf, fol. 284); fol. 105b is an inserted slip

Binding

Mid-fifteenth-century binding, stamped and ruled in blind; clasps lost; contemporary contents label and pressmark on the upper board. Stamps associated with the 'Conradus' workshop at Erfurt (w002418): bird/eagle (s016515), rosette (s016519), flower (s016518). Cf. the binding of MS. Hamilton 13, that ms. dated 1445.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Erfurt, Carthusians: ex libris, 15th century, fol. ii r (Ad Carthus. prope Erfford. pertinet); pressmark, O 106, fol. ii r and upper board; listed under that pressmark in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, II: Erfurt, ed. P. Lehmann (1928), p. 505)

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831, identifiable as 302 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856

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  • Augustinus, de Ancona, 1243-1328

  • Grosskopf, Johannes, fl. 1405-1409

  • Alphonsus de Alpram, OFM, early 15th cent.

  • Zach, Johannes, -1449

  • Torgau, Hermann von, -1433

  • Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856

  • Johannes de Halberstadt ca. 1409/27

  • Hüfner, Stephanus, -1465

  • Andreas de Broda 1360-1427

  • Thomas, de Tuderto, ca. -1393

  • Paulus, magister [at Leipzig?], 15th century

  • Bülow, Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von, 1760-?1831

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