Dictamen and formularies; five booklets A-E, Germany (?area of Erfurt), 14th century

Title

Dictamen and formularies; five booklets A-E, Germany (?area of Erfurt), 14th century

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. d. 66

Associated place

Erfurt

Place of origin

Germany

Date

14th century, second half

14th century

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Physical extent

I (medieval endleaf) + 87 (40 + 8 + 10 + 10 + 19) leaves

Binding

Medieval limp parchment binding, with a wrap-around flap to cover the fore-edge made from another piece of parchment attached with parchment sewing to the back cover; the spine with two back plates of thick leather, with sewing threads sewn together in two pairs of three (cf. J. A. Szirmai, The archaeology of medieval bookbinding (Aldershot, 1999), ch. 10.4).

The front cover inscribed with the faded trace of a 15th(?)-century title ‘Poetria’(?), and the head of the spine with the Admont Stiftsbibliothek number ‘637’ in black ink.

Acquisition

bought by the Bodleian and inscribed in pencil ‘P[urchased] Goldschmidt Aug. 1936’ (fol. ir).

Provenance

Perhaps written and bound at Erfurt to judge by the numerous mentions of the city in different sections of the volume (e.g. fols. 41v, 46r, 68r, 69r, 73r).

Inscribed 'Helmhardus' & 'Helemhardus', late 14th or early 15th century (fol. i)

Not identifiable in the medieval catalogues of Admont (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, III: Steiermark, ed. Gerlinde Möser-Mersky (1961))

No. 637 in the Admont Stiftsbibliothek, with two different heraldic ink stamps of the ‘Bibliotheca Admontensis’ (fols. ir and 87v), their MS. 637 (this number on the spine); described in their 1888 handwritten catalogue (pp. 248–49), annotated ‘verkauft 1936 nach London E Ph Goldschmidt’.

E. P. Goldschmidt, Catalogue 100 (1936), item 11; with his(?) stock no. ‘# 17578’ in pencil (inside back cover)