Treatises on dictamen; southern Austria, first half 14th century

Title

Treatises on dictamen; southern Austria, first half 14th century

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. d. 68

Associated place

Utrecht

Paris

Austria

Friuli

Palestine

Place of origin

Austria, South

Austrian, South

Date

14th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

106 + I (lifted pastedown) leaves

Binding

Medieval (original?) binding. Sewn on four double alum-tawed bands, laced at converging angles and pegged into wood boards with rounded edges, covered with pink-stained skin (the colour faded except for the back turn-ins), with a late- or post-medieval strap-and-pin fastening (and a 19th/20th-century leather strap), with vestiges of two original clasps at the fore-edge (all fastening from the back to the front board).

Traces of script on the inner face of the back board suggest the former presence of another pastedown.

The spine with a paper label printed with the Admont number ‘439’ (cf Provenance), and another 19th-century handwritten label, ‘Laurentius | de | Aquil. &c.’, overlapping an 18th(?)-century inscription on the spine itself.

Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian and inscribed in pencil ‘P[urchased] 8.XII.1936 Goldschmidt’ (front pastedown).

Provenance

Admont Stiftsbibliothek No. 439 (cf. spine), with their 19th-century armorial ink-stamp (fols. 1v, 106v) (cf. MS. Lat. misc. d. 66); traces of a paper label torn from the front pastedown (cf. that still present in MS. Lat. hist. e. 1); included in Jakob Wichner’s 1888 handwritten catalogue (pp. 192–93) where it is marked ‘Verkauft an Goldschmidt, London’ and ‘befindet sich in Oxford, Bodleyan Library’.

Not identifiable in the late-14th-century Admont catalogues (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, III: Steiermark, ed. Gerlinde Möser-Mersky (1961)).

E. P. Goldschmidt, Catalogue 100 (1936), no. 10; marks in blue pencil in the margins are probably by him, drawing attention to personal and place-names (e.g. fol. 52r)