MS. Hamilton 29
Summary Catalogue no.: 24459
Sermons (Peregrinus de Oppeln (?), Jacobus de Voragine, etc.); A-C Germany, 15th century, first quarter
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Fifteenth-century binding of plain leather on boards; clasps lost; bosses on upper and lower boards lost; contemporary labels with contents and pressmark on upper board.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Erfurt, Charterhouse: 15th-century ex libris, fols. 1r, 138r; 17th(?)-century ex libris, fol. 2r; pressmark O.9⟨.⟩ on the cover; identifiable as O.92 (not O.9, as in the Summary Catalogue, and repeated by Krämer, Handschriftenerbe) in the late-fifteenth-century catalogue (ed. P. Lehmann, p. 503).
Not certainly identifiable in the 1836 catalogue of the Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow sale: perhaps no. 168 ('Sermones de sanctis')
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
MS. Hamilton 29 – Part A (fols 2–109)
Contents
For fol. 1 see endleaves, below.
Schneyer IV.557–572, from this manuscript: 195–205, 113, 206–21, 114, 222–4, 126, 225, 127, 226–33, 129, 234–5, 131–2, 236–7, 134, 238–9, 136, 240–1, 137, 242, 140, 243–9, 144–6, 250–9, 260–1, 149, 262–4, 150–1, 265–76, 155, 277–8, 156, 279–301, 174, 302–5, 185, 306–9.
‘Nve helfft mir bethe v(or) daz wandel der heylygen (cristen)heyt Sonder(?) v(or) eynen stete frede dez landes vor vns(er)n geystlich vater den babest vor alle syne kardenal v(or) alle bysschoff v(or) alle p(re)st(er)liche werdykeyt dar nach helfft mir flyszlich bethe vor den romischen konigk’
Added in a different hand.
Added by another hand in two columns on an originally blank leaf.
Fol. 109r-v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 42–45 lines; frame-ruled, ruled space 215–20 × 140 mm. , 12mm between columns.
Hand(s)
Cursive; probably two hands, (a) fols. 2ra-va, 3ra-5vb; (b) fols. 2va-b, 4vb-108rb; later additions in cursive by two other hands.
Decoration
Coloured red initials of 4 lines (fol. 2) or 2 lines, sometimes with simple decoration.
History
MS. Hamilton 29 – Part B (fols. 110–125)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Abbreviated from Honorius of Autun, Speculum ecclesiae, PL 172.949B-953B
From Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, cc. 70 (de letania) and 46 (de sancto Gregorio, sect. 4): ed. Graesse, pp. 312–3, 190–2
Rest of fol. 110vb blank.
Text continued in the lower margin of the page; the end lost through trimming. Cf. Schneyer V.432 (49) (Sifridus OP), VIII.705 (50), IX.535 (59).
Begins as BSB, Clm 28454 fol. 1ra and Augsburg UB Cod. II.1.fol.46 fol. 303va, but the ending differs.
Geoffrey Babio 29 (Schneyer II.152–3, PL 171.574–577A)
Begins as Johannes Contractus (not in Schneyer; printed in the edition of not after 1478, istc ic00871000), but varies soon after the beginning.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 45–47 lines; frame-ruled, ruled space 240–5 × 150 mm. , 13mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Cursive; one hand, Heinricus Rulandi (colophon, fol. 125vb)
Decoration
2-line coloured red initials with simple decoration.
History
MS. Hamilton 29 – Part C (fols. 126(a)-137)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Schneyer III.221–235 nos. 89 (text partially repeated on fol. 126(b), an inserted slip, from 'circa ista cena tria notantur, scilicet inuitantis magna liberalitas' to 'secundum puritatem manuum mearum retribuet[sic] mihi'), 90, 93–5, 98 (beginning at 'In isto ewangelio instruuntur auditores verbi' and ending at 'Ps. Ignitum tuum eloquium vehementer'), 99–100, 101 (beg. some way through at 'Nota quod iusticia phariseorum erat nimis seuera, Mt. v Audistis'), 105 (signficantly longer than as pr. [not after 1478], istc ij00193000, ending 'reuerencia cum signo corporis'), 110 ('dominica 8', again significantly longer than pr., ending 'ut pauperes eos in sua hereditate collocet et utrumque per alium collocentur'), , 102, 103 (ending at 'de quo dicitur Mt. xxxij Omnis qui ...'), 113 ('dominica ixa', beginning 'dicit ewangelium quod cum dominus appropinquaret ad descensum montis oliuati turbe sibi occurrerunt cum canticis' and ending at 'uel saltem leuiter subridentem'), 114 (followed by a note that the third sermon 'Domus mea domus' is found in the quadragesimale), 116 ('dominica xa'), 117 (ending varies, here squeezed into the lower margin).
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 51–52 lines. Frame-ruled, ruled space 250 × 165 mm. , 10mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Cursive; one hand.
Decoration
2-line coloured red initials with simple decoration.
History
MS. Hamilton 29 - endleaves (fols. 1, 138)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. 1551 (USTC 859499) fols. 72va-74ra
Ed. 1551 (as above), fols. 58rb-60ra
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 52 lines. Ruled space 265 × 165 mm. with 15 mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Textualis, one hand.
Decoration
Spaces for initials unfilled.
History
MS. Hamilton 29 - pastedowns
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The text in one column, upper pastedown, one section begins:
The text in one column, lower pastedown, one section begins:
The text in two columns, upper pastedown, one section begins:
Quotes Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale.
The text in two columns, lower pastedown:
Partly a list of words and names with their meanings and figural uses, partly notes on grammar.
Physical Description
Layout
Partly in one column, 29–30 lines, frame-ruled, ruled space 140 × 90 mm.
Partly in two columns, 37–8 lines, frame-ruled, ruled space 165 × 120 mm.
Hand(s)
Cursive, one hand
Decoration
Space for initials unfilled.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
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Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-11-23: Description finalized for Polonsky German.