MS. Hamilton 12
Summary Catalogue no.: 24442
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Commentary usually shorter than the text as printed, but the orationes usually given in full. Blank spaces on fols. 48v, 52r, 112v, 121r, 131v, 156v (no loss of text, continuation of text 'in alio folio' or 'in reversione folii' noted). Lower half of fol. 48 cut out.
Ends in c. 22 (ed. E. H. Reiter, 1997).
Followed or continued (fols. 164v-166r) by a collection of authorities and verses mostly relating to priesthood:
Includes WIC 8689 (cf. Walther, Proverbia, 11431)
Includes WIC 3445
Cf. WIC 15555 (‘Qui missam...’)
Text continues on fol. 158v.
Fol. 166v blank.
Fol. 167r-v blank except for a short note on baptism.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Frame-ruled, verticals only. 1 col., c. 38–55 lines. Written space 225–40 × 125–40 mm.
Hand(s)
Cursive, two hands (1) fols. 1r-34r, 37r-63v, 65v-146r, 147v-154r, 155r-166r (2) fols. 34r-37r, 63v-65v, 146v-147v, 154v-155r.
Decoration
Small coloured initials at the beginning of sections. Occasional larger coloured initials at the beginning of Psalms. Underlining in red. Headings in textualis.
Marginal notes of topics and authorities quoted.
Binding
19th century binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
St Peter's, Erfurt: ‘Liber sancti Petri in Erfordia’, 15th cent., fol. 1r.
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831, 60 ('Alani glossa super psalterium') in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 (cf. fol. 1r)
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
MS. Hamilton 12 - endleaf (former front pastedown) (fol. 168)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Corresponds to 19.19–28.15 (Habito de 8 modis significandi ... proprie terminus) and 45.22–54.24 (et similiter ... scilicet actionem) of the printed edition: see H. Roos, 'Neue Handschriften-Funde zu den Modi significandi des Martinus de Dacia', Theologie und Philosophie 41 (1966) 243–6.
With occasional glossing.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 42 lines, written space 145 × 90 mm.
Hand(s)
Textualis
Decoration
Coloured initials, paraphs.
History
MS. Hamilton 12 - endleaf (former rear pastedown) (fol. 169)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fragment: assumption of the Virgin (Anima mea liquefacta, Sancta dei genetrix etc.) and Decollation of John the Baptist (Herodes funestus, Misit Herodes rex manu etc.)
Two other fragments of this manuscript are the pastedowns in MS. Hamilton 17.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., width 120 mm.
Hand(s)
Textualis
Adiastematic neums
Decoration
Coloured initials
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-06-12: Revised date of antiphonal endleaves