Henricus de Frimaria, De perfectione interioris hominis; Germany, 14th century, middle or second half

Title

Henricus de Frimaria, De perfectione interioris hominis; Germany, 14th century, middle or second half

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 52

Place of origin

German

Date

14th century, middle or second half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper, folded in octavo. Watermarks: two circles with cross (WZIS), pear with two leaves (type Piccard ii.508–730)

Physical extent

129 + 1 folios (1–64a, 64b, 65–129: 64b is an inserted slip)

Hands

One scribe, textualis with cursive features.

Additions on fol. 129v in hybrida.

Decoration

Five-line red initial with simple penwork decoration in red, fol. 1r.

Elsewhere mostly three-line initials in red or the ink of the text, or both, sometimes with simple silhouette decoration.

Binding

15th-century binding of brown leather over boards, stamped and ruled in blind; clasp, mostly lost; four (of five) bosses on the lower board (none on the upper board); contemporary contents label and pressmark (D XXXIIII). Bindery of St Peter's Erfurt, Einbanddatenbank 501181s: stamps s015807, s015809, s015813, s015822 and possibly others. Tabs.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Erfurt: ex libris, fol. 1r, 15th century, with pressmark D 34; ex libris, 18th century, fol. 1r.

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831 (?): possibly identifiable as 469 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836.

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856