MS. Hamilton 51
Summary Catalogue no.: 24481
A: Moral excerpts; B: Iacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea; C: Sermons, from Christmas to Trinity Sunday; D: Gospel harmony on the Passion, dated 1430. Germany: A, B 14th century, C, D 15th century
Physical Description
Binding
Medieval. Sewn on three slit tawed bands, laced into wood boards, covered with half brown leather. No pastedowns. Vestiges of a single clasp. Red-stained fore-edge tabs. Two medieval paper labels stuck to the front cover, one with a title ‘Passional[ … ]’, the other with ‘G [ … ] [possibly 7 corrected to 13]’ (the upper board split vertically, with a repair that obscures parts of these inscriptions). 19th-century gilt leather spine-label ‘51.’
Accompanying Material
Quire-strengtheners made from 12th-cent. MS. waste
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Erfurt, Charterhouse: their ownership inscriptions (fol. 1r). Parts 2 and 3 were already old before being bound: part 2 has significant damage to the edges of the leaves, part 3 begins at ‘201’ in an old foliation. Identified by Lehmann (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge, II (1928), pp. 4, 368) as the Passionale bequeathed by Johannes Orthonis von Aldendorf and as the ‘Pars iemalis passionalis fundatoris, quem videlicet fundator domus Carthusiensium Erffordiensis eidem contulit. | Kalendarius. | Liber tercius de gestis et monitis et exemplis sanctorum patrum. | Liber in medicina. |’, G. 7 in the late 15th-century catalogue, but the contents and implied date do not seem to correspond well; an alternative identification is G. 13: ‘Passionale cum multis sermonibus abbreviatis de tempore et sanctis.’ Medieval table of contents stuck to the inner face of the upper board.
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow, 1760-?1831 (?): perhaps identifiable as 290 in the catalogue of part 3 of his sale, 10 Oct. 1836 ('Passionale sanctorum, una cum quibusdam sermonibus etc.')
Sir William Hamilton, 1788–1856
Presented to the Bodleian Library by his sons and received in 1857. Formerly ‘Addit. MSS. Bodl. IV. A. 6.’ (fol. 1r).
MS. Hamilton 51 – Part A (fols. 1–86)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Stegmüller, Bibl. 10152, this copy only.
Stegmüller, Bibl. 10153, this copy only, listed as a commentary on Missus est.
Most of fol. 76v, and all of 77r, blank
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Frame-ruled in ink and written in two columns of about 35 lines. Ruled space c. 155 × 105 mm. , with c. 8 mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Gothic cursive (cursiva antiquior)
Decoration
Initials in plain red or omitted.
History
MS. Hamilton 51 – Part B (fols 87–181)
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled in ink and written in two columns of about 28–36 lines. Ruled space c. 165 × 115 mm. , with c. 7 mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Gothic cursive (cursiva antiquior)
Decoration
Initials in plain red or omitted.
History
MS. Hamilton 51 – Part C (fols. 182–215a)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
First complete sermon:
The last of the main series is:
Another sermon is added:
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled in plummet and written in two columns of about 40–45 lines. Ruled space c. 180–5 × 115–20 mm. with c. 5 mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Gothic cursive.
Decoration
Initials alternately red or blue.
History
MS. Hamilton 51 – Part D (fols. 216–223)
Contents
‘Inceptum in vigilia Kathedre Petri anno Domini mº ccccº xxxº.’
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled in ink (with two verticals at the fore-edge side) for a single narrow column of biblical text, with wide margins for glosses, and written with 18 well-spaced lines. Ruled area of the biblical text 135 × 50 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic cursive.
Decoration
None.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2021-02-05: Revised summary description for Polonsky German.