Hucbald, Palladius, etc.
MS. Lyell 57
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Hucbald, Palladius, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 57
Place of origin
German
Date
11th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii+35 leaves (fol. i–iii, 33–5 are flyleaves);
Hands
Written in several hands in Germany in the 11th cent.
Decoration
Rubrication only on fol. 7–10v.
Macrobian maps.
Diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander i. 43)
Binding
Modern binding of dark-brown morocco by Maltby of Oxford.
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
Identifiable as L.47 in the catalogue of Tegernsee made by Konrad Sortorius, librarian 1500–1531 (Krämer, op. cit., 85). Krämer, B.L.R. IX, 4 (1976), 199–207 and plate XII (fol. 7v). A 15th-cent. hand has added marginal descriptions of pieces throughout the MS (identifiable as Ambrosius Schwarzenbeck, librarian of Tegernsee 1481–1500; see S. Krämer in Codices manuscripti I, 3 (1975), 84–5).
Formerly MS.1.2.fol.5 in the Fürstliche Oettingen-Wallerstein’sehe Bibliothek, Maihingen; library stamp on pastedown. See Neues Archiv vii, 180; vol. cit., p. 261.
No. 10 in Catalogue xix (1936) of L’Art Ancien S.A., Zurich.
Bought by Lyell in February 1942 from A. Rosenthal; see his Cat. i (1939), no. 19 and pl. iv (fol. 7v).
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948
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