MS. Hamilton 38
Summary Catalogue no.: 24468
Thomas Aquinas; A, B Germany, 15th century, third quarter
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Blind-stamped brown leather over boards, late 15th or early 16th century, repaired. Workshop not identified: stamps include heart pierced by arrow with lily above; acorn; lily; double lily; leafwork; eagle. Bosses and clasps lost; cornerpieces (mentioned in 1897) no longer present. Contemporary contents label on front cover.
Accompanying Material
Endleaves formerly from a Hebrew manuscript, lost by the time of the Summary Catalogue. The offsets referred to in the Summary Catalogue are no longer visible.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Ex testamento reuerendi ⟨Johannis⟩ honsheym qui alias ciuis fuit ⟨de Bercka⟩’ (note, early sixteenth century, on the contents label; the full text is recorded in the Bülow catalogue, see below): bequeathed by him to the Erfurt Charterhouse. For Johann Hoensheym de Berka (fl. 1502) see J. N. Sinnhold and J. C. Motschmann, Erfordia Literata oder Gelehrtes Erffurth III.i (Erfurt, 1748) 77.
Apparently not identifiable in the late-fifteenth-century library catalogue of the Erfurt Charterhouse (arrived after its compilation?). Possible pressmark ‘L 90’ on the contents label, but only partially fits the catalogue entry (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, II, 465, 'Item secunda pars 2. partis in papiro').
Erfurt, Charterhouse: ex libris, 17th century (?), fol. 1r.
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831, 108 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857.
MS. Hamilton 38 – Part A (fols. 1–147)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Rest of fol. 147ra blank. Fols. 147rb-147v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled, ruled space 230 × 135–40 mm.
Scribe A: 2 cols., c. 58–63 lines.
Scribe B: 2 cols., c. 46–8 lines.
Hand(s)
Cursive by two hands: fols. 1ra-72vb, fols. 73ra-147ra.
Decoration
Two- to three-line plain initials in the ink of the text. Paraphs and underlining in red on fols. 1ra-2rb only.
History
MS. Hamilton 38 – Part B (fols. 148–313)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Rest of fol. 312rb blank; fols. 313v-313v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., c. 42–46 lines. Frame-ruled, ruled space 230 × 135 mm.
Hand(s)
Cursive by one scribe.
Decoration
Six-line initial with flourishing in red and the ink of the text, fol. 148ra.
Three-line coloured red initials elsewhere.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-29: Description revised for Polonsky German project.