Thomas Ebendorfer — 15th century, third quarter; Germany
MS. Hamilton 5
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Thomas Ebendorfer — 15th century, third quarter; Germany
Shelfmark
MS. Hamilton 5
Place of origin
Germany
Date
15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper, folded in folio. Watermarks: tower (not in Piccard, parallels from c. 1452–1474 in WZIS); tower, type Piccard ii.333–377 (1452–72); dreiberg with seven-petalled flower, cf. Piccard iii.1081–3, 1096–1117 (1456–68); dreiburg with cross, type Piccard vii.2203–2234 (mostly 1451–63, also 1477, 1500); bull's head with cross and seven-petalled flower, type Piccard xi.311–353.
Physical extent
i (modern) + 359 + i (modern) leaves, the modern endleaves not foliated.
Hands
Cursive with hybrida forms.
Three hands (?): (A) fols. 1ra-95vb (and 138ra?); (B) fols. 96ra-233vb (except 138ra); (C) fols. 234ra-358va.
Decoration
One 5-line red initial, fol. 1ra.
Otherwise no decoration; spaces left for initials, unfilled; no rubrication. Scribe B, occasional decorative flourishes on the descender of g and elsewhere.
Binding
Contemporary binding of half brown plain leather over boards, repaired; boards a modern replacement.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
Provenance
Erfurt, Benedictine monastery of St Peter: 'Liber Bibliothecae regalis Monasterij S. Petri Erfordiae', 18th century, fol. 1r.
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow: no. 23a in the 1836 sale catalogue of his library; cf. inscription, fol. 1r.
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
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