MS. Hamilton 26
Summary Catalogue no.: 24456
Robert Holcot, Ps.-Augustine, etc.; Germany, 1444–1445
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Inside front cover: ownership inscription (see Provenance) and table of contents by the scribe.
Theological notes: apparently extracts from Henricus de Frimaria, Expositio decem praeceptorum
Added, fifteenth century, by the main scribe.
Theological notes: list of scriptural and theological sevens.
Added, fifteenth century.
Followed by a note of a great flood in Saxony in the same year.
Twenty-five sermons: 1–4, 6–13, 43, 5, 26, 44, 14–22 in the Maurist numbering.
Added, fifteenth century.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 42–46 lines, column space 223 × c. 70 mm.
Hand(s)
Written by Petrus Meyszner. The colophon on fol. 206 covers fols. 2–260a and perhaps 206b-210v. The colophon on fol. 228 covers fols. 211v-228. The colophon on fol. 257v covers fols. 235v-257v and perhaps 228–234v.
Decoration
Puzzle initials, sometimes with penwork flourishing in blue and red.
Coloured initials (red, blue and green) with simple decoration.
Rubrics.
Binding
Fifteenth-century binding of brown leather over boards, ruled in blind; clasps and bosses lost; remains of contemporary contents label.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Iste liber est domini Petri Meysner plebani ville Podolczk’ (inside front cover)
Cistercian abbey of Neuzelle, near Guben: ‘Liber Noue Celle sancte Marie’, 15th century, fol. 1.
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
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2020-08-26: Added binding description.