Carthusian chapterhouse sermons; Germany, late 14th or early 15th century

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Title

Carthusian chapterhouse sermons; Germany, late 14th or early 15th century

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 47

Place of origin

Germany

Germany (?)

Date

14th century

14th century, late, or 15th century, early

13th century

Language

Latin

Collationes capitulares, siue Sermones de tempore et sanctis

(fols. 2r–11v) Nativity, Schneyer 1–11

(fols. 11v–18v) Epiphany, Schneyer 12–19

(fols. 19r–26r) Resurrection, Schneyer 20–27

(fols. 26v–34r) Ascension, Schneyer 28–35

(fols. 34r–40v) Pentecost, Schneyer 36–42

(fols. 41r–46v) Purification, Schneyer 43–48

(fols. 46v–51r) Annunciation, Schneyer 49–54

(fols. 51v–59v) Assumption, Schneyer 55–62 (rubric on fol. 51r). Rest of fol. 59v blank.

(fols. 60r–70r) Nativity of the Virgin, Schneyer 63–71

(fols. 70v, 71v–74v) Michaelmas, Schneyer 72–77

(fols. 74v–78v) All Saints, Schneyer 78–82

(fols. 78v–82v) Nativity of John the Baptist, Schneyer 83–87

(fols. 82v–87r) Mary Magdalen, Schneyer 88–92

(fols. 87r–98v) St Hugh of Lincoln, Schneyer 93–101

(fols. 98v–104r) ⟨Michaelmas⟩, Schneyer 102–106

(fols. 104r–111r) ⟨All Saints⟩, Schneyer 107–112

(fols. 111r–112v) John the Baptist, one sermon, Schneyer 113

(fols. 112v–113r) Schneyer 114 (occasion not specified)

(fols. 113v–114r) Schneyer 115 (occasion not specified)

(fols. 114r–116r) Schneyer 116 (occasion not specified)

Fols. 116v-117v blank.

MS. Hamilton 47 - endleaf (fol. 1)

(fol. 1r, upper / left column and fol. 1v, upper / right columns) Commentary on Aristotle, Meteora (?)

(fol. 1r, lower / right column and fol. 1v, lower / left column) Philosophical text (unidentified)

MS. Hamilton 47 - endleaf (fol. 118) and pastedown

(fol. 181ra–va) Ps.-Aristotle (Nicholas of Damascus) De plantis

(fol. 181va–vb) Aristotle Meteora

Form

codex

Support

Paper folded in quarto. Watermarks often indistinct but include steer's head with cross on rod of one line, steer's head with six-pointed star on rod of one line, and (?) two circles.

Physical extent

1 + 116 + 1 folios (foliated 1–118)

Hands

Cursiva antiquior, fols. 1r-108r and 111r-112v by one hand.

Additions by several hands in cursiva and hybrida.

Decoration

Two-line coloured red initials; rubrics.

Musical notation

Pen-trial with musical notation on the lower pastedown.

Binding

Contemporary binding of red leather over boards; clasp lost; contemporary labels with title ('Collaciones capitulares') and pressmark. Tabs.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Erfurt, Carthusian abbey: ex libris, 15th century, fol. 2r; pressmark '0 107' on the front cover and the upper pastedown; 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 437 ('Collationes capitulares') in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856

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