Johannes a Sancto Geminiano, Sermones quadragesimales; Germany (in part Erfurt), c. 1442
MS. Hamilton 8
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Title
Johannes a Sancto Geminiano, Sermones quadragesimales; Germany (in part Erfurt), c. 1442
Shelfmark
MS. Hamilton 8
Associated place
Erfurt
Place of origin
Germany, Erfurt (at least in part)
Germany
Date
14th century
c. 1442
13th century
15th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
161 folios
Hands
Mostly the work of two scribes, (a) fols. 1ra-108vb (b) fols. 109ra-161v, Johannes Czesaris; a third scribe seems to appear briefly on fols. 153vb-154ra.
Scribe a, cursiva
Scribe b, hybrida (loopless cursive)
Decoration
Red initials, mostly 2–3 lines, sometimes with simple 'arabesque' or 'silhouette' decoration.
Rubrication of fols. 1–108 apparently unfinished.
Binding
Contemporary binding of white whittawed skin over boards; clasps lost; formerly chained from the head of the back board. Contemporary contents label on the front cover, with pressmark E 1.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
Provenance
Colophon, fol. 161vb, referring to fols. 109–161, but fols. 1–108 are evidently contemporary.
Erfurt, unidentified religious house: Liber conuentus Erfford' Held'ug' (Heldrug'?) (fol. 1r); pressmark E 1 on the binding.
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831 (?): probably identifiable as 209a in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 ('JOHANNIS (Fr. Ord. S. Domin.) Sermones quadragesimales (a. 1442. scr.)').
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
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