A: Ortolf von Bayrlandt, Hugh of St. Victor, etc.; B: the 'Oxford Boethius', etc.; C: theological collection. Germany, 15th century, middle

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Title

A: Ortolf von Bayrlandt, Hugh of St. Victor, etc.; B: the 'Oxford Boethius', etc.; C: theological collection. Germany, 15th century, middle

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 46

Place of origin

Germany, Western (Ripuarian language area)

Date

c. 1460/75, with additions from 1481

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Latin

German

MS. Hamilton 46 – Part 1 (fols. 1–60)

Fol. 1r, contents list to the whole volume, but not including fols. 1v-13v, followed by verses ('Dat vinum purum septem tibi commoda...') and note 'Gloria patri propter tria. Primo quia nos creavit...'.

1. (fols. 1v–11r) Ortolf von Baierland Arzneibuch

2. (fols. 11v–13v) Medical and dietary calendar: rules for the months

3. (fols. 13v–14v) Alphabetical index to art. 4.

4. (fols. 13v–48r) Hugh of St. Victor Didascalicon

5. (fol. 48v) Alphabetical index to the remaining folios of part 1 (fols. 'xxxvi' to 'xlv).

6. (fols. 49r–50r) Hugh of St-Victor De meditatione

7. (fol. 50rv) Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria, in verse

8. (fols. 51r–52v) Medical text

9. (fol. 53r)

Rubric: De signis mortis corporalis et spiritualis

Incipit: Sex sunt deuia que nos a via vite seducunt scilicet obliuio dei

10. (fols. 53r–55r) Sermon (?)

11. (fols. 55r–56v) Sermon

12. (fol. 57r–v) Various notes and verses: on the Annuciation ('Hec est dies illa dominus quem fecit in ista...'); mnemonic for the order of the gospels ('Purpura cenat...'); on the ages of the world ('Incipiens ab adam quem...', WIC 9182); grades of consanguinity; 'Eusebius dicit in cronica...'; WIC 2058 (Urban V, 'Balsamus et munda'); WIC 11550 (Pius II (?), 'Misticus agnus').

13. (fol. 58r–v) On the conception of the Virgin Mary

14. (fols. 59r–60v) 'Libellus de tribulacione'

MS. Hamilton 46 – Part 2 (fols. 61–222)

1. (fols. 61r–147v, 149r–220r) Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, with glosses, commentary, and partial German translation. Edition by D. Mairhofer forthcoming, June 2020.

(fols. 62r–147v, 149r–220r) Boethius De consolatione philosophiae

(fols. 61r–147v, 149r–220r) Commentary on Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae

De consolatione philosophiae

(fol. 148r, inserted leaf, upper half torn off:) Letter, seeking a loan

2. (fols. 220r, stubbs 1v, 2v, 3rv between 222v–223r) Life of Peter Denrich

3. (fol. 220v) Hymn to the Virgin

4. (fol. 220v–222r) Sibellinus Rorbach Hymn

5. (stubbs 1r, 2r, 4–5 between 222v–223r) On the recto side of the first stub is a macaronic hymn, in a different, cursive hand to that which transmitted the earlier hymns that are fully extant. Inc: Satiros non vereor / ich armes dulles wicht / ergo crucem mereor / daz ich doch halden licht /. The rest of the text is obviously cut away.

MS. Hamilton 46 – Part 3 (fols. 223–368)

(fol. 223r–v) Alanus ab Insula De planctu naturae

(fol 224r; 224v–225r blank) Incipit: Nota 4 ducunt nos ad penitentiam

(fol. 225v) Incipit: De abbate Ioachim ut legitur in speculo historiale vincentii parte tercia

(fol. 226r–281r) Apocalypse with commentary and glosses

(fol. 281r) Incipit: Iohannes apostolus et ewangelista a christo electus atque dilectus

3. (fol. 281v) Office of the Dead with commentary (fragment)

Incipit: Parce michi domine nichil enim

Incipit: Sancta et salubris est cogitatio pro defunctis ut a peccatis soluantur Machab ⟨12(?)⟩ Innocentius. sanguinis Iesus Christi preciosissimus qui in remissionem peccatorum pro multis effusus est non solum ad salutem viventium

4. (fols. 282r–319ar) Giles of Rome De regimine principum

5. (fols. 319av–319br) Verses

(fols. 319av–319ra) Carmen de presbitero et gallo

(fol. 319br) ‘Condiciones boni predicatoris’

(fol. 319br) Fol. 319bv blank.

Incipit: Mente nota tristi tu quot sunt wlnera christi

Incipit: Dic homo mortalis fuit unquam passio talis

6. (fols. 320r–v, 322r–324v) ⟨John of Garland⟩ De mysteriis ecclesiae

7. (fol. 321r–v) Incipit: In cena summum Christus statuit sacramentum | Sub panis specie cum discipulis tribuit se

8. (fols. 325r–330r) On the seven virtues

Incipit: Apprehendent vij mulieres virum unum Ysa iiij ⟨1⟩ Ecce matrimonium amabile honorabile et nobile inter septenarium virtutum

(fol. 326ar) Rubric: De alio septenario virtutum

9. (fols. 330v–332r) Rubric: Hospitalitas placet deo prodest homini

10. (fol. 332v) Incipit: Mors peccatorum pessima preciosa autem in conspectu domini mors sanctorum eius. Beati mortui qui in domino moriuntur ideo disce mori. Incipe bene et iuste viuere si vis bene mori.

11. (fols. 333r–364v) Cordiale quatuor nouissimorum

12. (fols. 365r–366r)

Rubric: (fol. 365r) De aduentu domini

(fols. 365r–366r) Incipit: Beata virgo maria offerabatur 3º anno natiuitatis sue in templo et mansit inibi usque ad xiiij

(fol. 366v) Incipit: Iungitur vnda mero confecto sangwine christi

(fol. 367r) John of Garland De mysteriis ecclesiae

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

ii + 375 + ii leaves (fols. 81, 285, 318, 319, 326 are doubles, fol. 213 is treble)

Binding

Later brown leather quarter covers over original wooden boards, five bands. Latch marks on the upper and lower covers, latch lacking.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Dating and localisation based on watermarks and content. All parts were bound together in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, in the same region where they had been produced. See Daniela Mairhofer (2017) p. 208–09.

Medieval provenance not known; not identifiable in the late-fifeenth-century catalogue of the Erfurt Carthusians, or the 1783 catalogue of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter in Erfurt, but later ownership by Bülow (see below) may well suggest Erfurt provenance, and the manuscript may have reached the Carthusians after the catalogue was compiled.

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831 (?): almost certainly identifiable as 382 in the catalogue of his sale, 1836: 'Tract. de mysteriis ecclesiae, de virtutib. etc. - Apocalypsis. - Quatuor novissima. - BOETIUS De consolat. philosoph.'

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856

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