MS. Hamilton 34
Summary Catalogue no.: 24464
Canon law; Guido de Montrocher, Manipulus curatorum. A, B Germany, 15th century, third quarter (in part 1466)
Physical Description
Binding
Brown leather over boards, fifteenth century (second half, after 1466) or early sixteenth century, ruled and stamped in blind: the main stamp is 'Blattwerk | Bündelung mehrerer Stämme (offen)' (sometimes classified as 'Lilie'), unidentified. Clasps mostly lost.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Note 'iste liber vendatur', 15th century, on the upper pastedown.
Watson and Krämer (with query) suggest that this volume is to be identified with A.22(1) in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue of the Carthusian abbey at Erfurt ('Repertorium magistri Wilhelmi Duranti': ed. Lehmann, p. 253): the identification is incorrect, and there is no other evidence to associate this volume with that house.
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
MS. Hamilton 34 – Part A (fols. 1–242)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 43–51 lines. Frame-ruled, ruled space 230–40 × 150 mm.
Hand(s)
Cursive by two hands: fols. 1ra-60vb, fols. 61ra-242vb.
Decoration
Five- to nine-line initials in alternating red and pale blue, with elaborate penwork flourishing in the other colour, at the beginning of each alphabetical section. (The flourishing not carried out, fol. 194r.)
History
MS. Hamilton 34 – Part B (fols. 243–369)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Schulte II.244–5, 535–6. For authorship see S. Kuttner, Repertorium der Kanonistik 1140–1234 (1937) 160 n. 1.
Several texts on the sacraments presented as a single item:
On possible accidents at Mass, a frequent subject of legislation and discussion; cf., for example, Missale Cisterciense, [Strassburg] 1487 (istc im00635000) sig. k6v, and Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis, vi.17 (in the edition of c. 1478/80 (istc ia00233000)), but the text here differs.
Unidentified; perhaps the same text as Berlin, SB, MS. theol. fol. 28 (Rose 495) fol. 255va, 'Heinrici Erffordiensis de septem sacramentis'; also followed in that manuscript by the following text.
Twenty-six chapters, the last 'de principalibus viciis'. Bloomfield 4919; Kaeppeli 3184; H. Weisweiler, 'Handschriftliches zur Summa de penitentia des Mag. Paulus von St. Nicolaus', Scholastik 5 (1930), 248–260
Rest of fol. 290rb blank; fol. 290v blank.
Rest of fol. 369rb blank. Fol. 369v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 46–52 lines. Frame-ruled, ruled space 225–30 × 142–4 mm.
Hand(s)
Cursive by one hand.
Decoration
Two- to four-line initials in red.
Rubrics.
History
Provenance
Date: see fol. 290rb.
Additional Information
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-30: Finalized description for Polonsky German project.