Bridget of Sweden; Germany, c. 1420–30

Title

Bridget of Sweden; Germany, c. 1420–30

Shelfmark

MS. Hamilton 7

Place of origin

Italy

Germany

Date

14th century (?)

c. 1420–30

15th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper, the centre of each quire strengthened with parchment apparently from the same manuscript as the upper pastedown. Watermarks: (1) fols. 1–12 and 133–144: Bull's head, indistinct (Ochsenkopf - frei, mit Oberzeichen - mit einkonturiger Stange - Blume - ohne weiteres Beizeichen - sechs Blütenblätter - mit Augen; between chainlines; chainlines c. 42 mm. apart). (2) fols. 13–132, 145–228: Moor's head (Kopf, Mohr, frei, mit Kopfbedeckung, Krone und Stirnband, Stern (einkonturig), ohne weiteres Beizeichen); on a chainline, distance between chainlines 55mm., c. 89 45 - no exact match in Piccard-Online or Briquet, but resembles motifs used c. 1421–25 in Southern Germany / Switzerland). (3) fols. 229–240, 245, 246, 249: Moor's head (Kopf, Mohr, frei, mit Kopfbedeckung, Krone und Stirnband, Kreis, ohne weiteres Beizeichen, darunter) c. 88 41 , between chainlines, distance between chainlines c. 41 mm., cf. WZIS DE2730-PO-20703 (Wetzlar, 1426)). (4) fols. 241, 250: Bull's head (Ochsenkopf, frei, mit Oberzeichen, mit einkonturiger Stange, Blume, ohne weiteres Beizeichen, fünf Blütenblätter, Blütenblätter rund, ohne Gesichtsmerkmale), c. 115 41 , between chainlines, distance between chainlines c. 41 mm., cf. WZIS DE4860-Ms687_8, DE0510-CodII12_224_X (Erfurt (?), 1401–1433)).

Physical extent

250 folios

Hands

Several scribes: (1) fols. i recto - lxii verso (quires 1–6); (2) fols. lxxiii recto - xcvj verso (quires 7 and 8); (3) fols. xcvii recto (col. a line 20) - ccxxvi verso (quires 9–18, part of 19); (4) fols. ccxxvii recto - ccxxiii verso (end of quire 19); (5) fols. ccxxviiii recto - ccxlviii verso (quires 20–21). The scribe of fol. xcvii recto a lines 1–20 is probably scribe 4.

Binding

Fifteenth-century: alum-tawed sheepskin, stained pink, over boards; 4+1 bosses on the front and back boards, lost; two strap-and-pin fastenings, lost. Label with pressmark, and label with contents note. Tabs at the beginning of each item (red) and of each book of the Revelations (brown).

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Erfurt, Carthusian abbey of St. Salvator: pressmark I.3 (label, upper board); listed ('J.3') in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue ( Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz II.431).

Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831, 22b in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 (cf. fol. i recto)

Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856