Theological and biblical compendium, including excerpts from Thomas Aquinas, Catena aurea on the Gospels; Germany (?Erfurt OCart), 15th century, second half
MS. Hamilton 45
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Theological and biblical compendium, including excerpts from Thomas Aquinas, Catena aurea on the Gospels; Germany (?Erfurt OCart), 15th century, second half
Shelfmark
MS. Hamilton 45
Associated place
Oxford
Place of origin
German, Erfurt, Charterhouse (at least in part) (?)
English
Date
15th century, second half
13th century, late, or 14th century, early
Language
Latin
German
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
ii + 273 + i (medieval parchment endleaf) + ii
Hands
Gothic cursive
Decoration
Some initials in plain red.
Binding
Early 20th-century(?), three-quarter brown leather. A medieval paper label, probably moved from the front cover of a former binding, now stuck to the upper pastedown ‘Excerptum de glo. continua’ and in smaller script ‘beati Thome super 4or. euangelistas’. Red leather tabs at the upper edge, superseding (missing) tabs at the fore-edge. The flat spine lettered in gilt, the 19th-century leather spine label ‘45’ now stuck to the lower pastedown.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857. Former shelfmark Formerly ‘Addit. MSS Bodl. III.D.12.’ (upper pastedown).
Provenance
The references to ‘domini Alward. fratris nostri’ and ‘Iohannis Indaginis fratris nostri’ suggest that at least the ‘cedulae’ were written at the Erfurt Charterhouse, where Johannes Hagen of Indagine was monk (1440–54, 1465–75) and prior (1457–60); ‘dominus Alward.’ is probably to be identified with the ‘dominus Alwordus professus huius domus’ who is mentioned in the library catalogue as having written C 13 (Nicholas Lyre, now Berlin, SB, Lat. qu. 636) ‘et super prophetas, Machabeorum et alia multa de eadem manu’.
Erfurt (Carthusians) : with their ownership inscription (upper pastedown); probably C. 97 in the late medieval catalogue (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, II (1928), p. 294).
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831, identifiable as 330 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
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