Summa magistri Ade
MS. Lyell 59
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Summa magistri Ade
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 59
Place of origin
Austrian (?)
Date
14th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii+27 leaves (fol. i–iii, 24–7 are flyleaves),
Hands
Written, probably in Austria, in the early 14th cent, in a large textura.
Decoration
Drawing in red ink. Plain red initials, the first and the last flourished in red. (Pächt and Alexander i. 132)
In the blank space after the end of the text on fol. 23v the rubricator has drawn in red ink the figure of a priest holding a chalice.
Binding
Modern dark-brown morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
Formerly in the library of the abbey of Melk, in Austria: fol. 1, Monasterii Mellicensis; fol. 23v, modern library stamp. It appears that our MS. originally formed the first part of the MS. which was D (171) in the 1483 Melk catalogue (Gottlieb, Mittelalt. Bibl.kat. Österreichs 1, 1915, p. 224 1. 4) and which was subsequently MS. Melk 26 (A. 29), but that it later formed pp. 89–134 of MS. Melk 228 (E. 17b): see Cat. Codd. MSS. Mellicensis 1, 1889, pp. 64, 325. It must also be the Codex Mellicensis alius in folio membr. Anno 29. qui certissime seculo xiv exaratus est, cited by B. Pez, Thesaurus Anecd. Nov. I, 1721, p. lxxii.
Bought by Lyell in October 1939 from E. P. Goldschmidt and Co., see his Cat. 44, no. 1.
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948
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