A Augustinus de Ancona, etc.; B, C Sermons. Germany (in part Erfurt OCart?), 15th century

Title

A Augustinus de Ancona, etc.; B, C Sermons. Germany (in part Erfurt OCart?), 15th century

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 56

Place of origin

Germany, perhaps Erfurt, Carthusian abbey of St. Salvator

Germany, perhaps (at least in part) Erfurt, Carthusian abbey

Germany, presumably Erfurt, Carthusians

German

Date

15th century

15th century (middle (?))

14th century, late, or 15th century, first quarter (watermark)

15th century (first half (?))

Language

Latin

German

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

331 (82 + 117 + 132) + 1 (original paper endleaf), with 20 foliated inserted slips (fols. 68b, 74b, 74c, 77b, 78b, 105 (formerly 104b), 106 (formerly 104c), 107, 125b, 125c, 131b, 135b, 136b, 136c, 145, 146b, 153, 155, 160b, 174); with unfoliated slips between fols. 163 and 164, and fols. 177 and 178; and with unfoliated smaller fragments elsewhere in the volume (e.g. between 167 and 168, 168 and 169, 175 and 176). Fol. 206 is a half-sheet.

Binding

Whittawed skin over boards, 15th century, damaged; sewn on three bands; 4+1 bosses on the back board, lost; strap-and-pin fastening, closing on the front board, lost; contents label on the front board.

Acquisition

Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857. Former Bodleian shelfmark 'Addit. IV. A. 11' (front pastedown)

Provenance

Two stages of assembly can be identified. In the first, parts A and B were brought together by the scribe of part B, who added additional texts and an index to part A (fols. 69rb-82vb), partly on an additional quire (fols. 71–82). In the second, parts A and B were bound with part C.

Erfurt, Carthusian abbey of St. Salvator: inscription, Pertinet hic liber ad carthus' erfford' (front pastedown); Carthusiensium prope Erfford' est hoc liber, 15th century, fol. 1r; cf. 339v; identifiable as H 110 in the late-fifteenth-century catalogue (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands..., II, 422).

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow: probably identifiable as no. 387 in the 1836 sale catalogue of his library ('AUGUSTJNUS DE ANCONA Super angelicam salutationem. - JOA. ANDRAE Tract. de sacramento altaris. - Sermones varii').

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856