MS. Hamilton 15
Summary Catalogue no.: 24445
Conrad de Brundelsheim, etc.; Germany, c. 1400
Contents
Language(s): Latin
On the upper pastedown are contemporary notes on preaching, citing Augustine etc.
Cf. Schneyer VIII, p. 574, no. 33.
The sequence of material on fols. 160va-188va is closely paralleled in Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Chart. A. 1928 fols. 180ra-217ra, in a collection of Lent sermons there attributed to Henricus de Frimaria.
Attributed to Simon Cassia by early owners: fol. 249r 'pars yemalis sucus symonis'; fol. i recto, 'Iste liber intitulatur pars yemalis Sermonum Symonis de Cassia'; contents label, front cover.
Schneyer VI, p. 431 (no. 42; the full incipit is 'Quanto major est necessitas indigentis, tanto...'); also in Zwettl, Zisterzienserstift, Cod. 206. Ends unfinished.
Ends imperfect (at f. 11r of ISTC ia00629000).
Begins imperfect; contemporary addition (?).
Added, fifteenth century; cf. Mansi, XXIX, 102–3, but the text here differs considerably.
Added, fifteenth century; an extract from the prologue to Nicolaus Stoer, Expositio officii missae.
List of the books of Jacob Hazen: thirteen books ‘omnes magnis voluminis quos mecum habui in Kottebus’, seven other books, and unspecified ‘parvis voluminibus’.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 43–51 lines. Frame-ruled. Written space c. 220–230 × 145–155 mm.
Binding
Contemporary cuir ciselé (cut leather) binding, two medallions on each cover. Front cover: above, St George killing the dragon; below, female figure with wings (?). Back cover, above, male figure in stocks, with raised hands, pierced by arrows (St Sebastian (?)); below, female figure with bow and arrow.
Contents label on front cover.
Rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Dating based on watermarks.
Jacob Hazen: list of his books at Cottbus, fol. 249r, early fifteenth century (?), in which ‘iste liber qui intitulatur pars yemalis sucus sermonis’ is the first item.
Petrus Meyszner: ‘Iste liber est domini Petri Meyszner plebani in Welmpeiz [Wellmitz?] etc. et intitulatur Symon de Cassia’ (inside back cover, 15th century)
Neuzelle, Cistercian abbey: ‘Liber Noue Celle sancte Marie’ (fol. 2, 15th century)
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-02-07: Description revised for Polonsky German.