MS. Hamilton 19
Summary Catalogue no.: 24449
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The metrical summary (Stegmüller, Sent. 21, WIC 16652) for Bk 1, eight lines, with the usual gloss. Fol. 1v blank.
Bk. II ends fol. 40r, immediately followed by the prologue to bk. III. Fol. 40v blank.
At fol. 41a recto-verso is the metrical summary of bks. III-IV (inc. ‘Natus vtrumque Leui ... penam malefactis’, Stegmüller, Sent. 21), with gloss.
Bk. III proper begins fol. 41b recto.
Wrongly identified in the Summary Catalogue as a commentary on the Sentences; included in Stegmüller, Sent. 433,1 with Johann Dyckman as author.
Contemporary addition, by the same scribe (?); on the attributes of the Trinity; the reasons why God created man capable of sin (cf. Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium ueritatis theologicae, II.65), on Biblical women and Mary (verse, inc. ‘Iusticia celebres olim fuerunt mulieres | Sara rebecca lya rachel vasque maria’), the four senses of scripture, the five ways a merchant sins, etc.
Fol. 251r blank; fol. 251v, later pen-trials.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., c. 22–28 lines, written space 220–5 × 125–30 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in hybrida ('loopless bastarda') by Johann Dyckman (fols. 133v, 248v)
Decoration
Spaces left for initials.
Rubrics.
Binding
Half-leather over boards, 15th century
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Pressmark (not medieval) ‘30’ on the spine.
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
MS. Hamilton 19 - binding fragments
Contents
Small fragments of two manuscripts, one Latin (grammar?) and one German on the inside of the upper and lower boards.
Physical Description
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-11-29: Description revised with reference to Watson and examination of MS for Polonsky German.