MS. Lyell 51
Latin miscellany
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
15th-cent. monastic binding of wooden boards covered with white leather (probably polished sheepskin) decorated with tooled panels and stamps; sewing strengthened in the middle of the quires with strips of parchment taken from MSS.; traces of a label on the upper cover.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly no. 596 in the library of Admont (see paper label on spine).
Sold by Admont in or after 1934 to L. and A. Brecher of Brünn; see G. Moser-Mersky, Mittelalt. Bibl.kat. Österreichs iii, 1961, p. 9.
Bought by Lyell from Davis and Orioli in April 1938; see their Cat. 79 (Nov. 1937), no. 90.
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
MS. Lyell 51 – Part A (fol. i+1–24)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fol. 24v is blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Frame ruling, mostly 28 long lines, 145 × 100 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in a current hybrid hand in 1471.
Decoration
Red initials and headings.
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part B (fol. 25–48)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Another MS. is cited by L. Rockinger, Briefsteller und Formelbücher, 1863, pp. 952–3 n. 2.
Fols. 25–25v, 45–48v are blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Frame ruling, 2 cols., c. 34 lines, 160 × 110 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in the 15th cent, in a cursive hand.
Decoration
Red initials and headings.
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part C (fol. 49–56)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fol. 52v–56v are blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
32 long lines, not ruled, c. 175 × 125 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in the 15th cent, in a cursive hand
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part D (fol. 57–85)
Contents
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
frame ruling in ink, 2 cols., c. 31–4 lines, 160 × 105 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in the 15th cent, in a cursive hand
Decoration
Red initials.
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part E (fol. 86–128)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
This is preceded (fol. 86v–88) by paradigms expounded in the text:
heading mostly cropped by binder
See fol. 89–96v;
drawing with text
See fol. 96v–97v;
see fol. 97v–100. On fol. 87v are lists of different kinds of feast days.
See H. Caplan, Medieval Artes Praedicandi (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, XXIV), 1934, no. 27; T. Charland, Artes Praedicandi (Publ. de l’Inst. d’études médiév. d’Ottawa, vii), 1936, p. 70, both of whom cite our MS. as Admont 596. Only the introduction is similar to the printed ‘Aquinas’ tract cited by them (Hain 1351–62).
Followed by a note on the celebration of the feast of the Visitation.
In several parts:
ends with a list of 50 sins arising from games
7 lines. Cf. WIC 7487;
38 lines. Probably also in Munich clm. 5844, which Walther cites for the previous item.
On these ‘reports’ of sermons given at Regensburg, see L. Luszczki, ‘De manuscriptis sermonum S. Ioannis de Capistrano’, Antemurale 5 (1959), 127–9. The two sermons in our MS. seem to be from the same recension as the three in MS. Vienna 3693, fol. 122–8.
Fol. 110v is blank.
An incomplete version of the first of the four basic figures of Ramon Lull, given in his Ars brevis, followed by
with revolving discs
see F. Yates, ‘The Art of Ramon Lull’, Journal of Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 17 (1954), 116 and Pl. 8b, c, d, e;
a table, with the letters B–K at the left, (left to right)
The equivalent of the first three lines of Lull’s ‘Alphabet’ (Yates, pl. 8a)
a list of Lull’s nine ‘Dignitates Dei’ or ‘Essencialis Accentualis’
Definition of the ‘absoluta’ and ‘relata’
similar to Lull’s Ars Brevis, cap. vi. De Diffinitionibus (in Opera, ed. Zetzner, Strassburg, 1617, p. 10)
Followed by definitions of Lull’s ‘questiones’ (Utrum-Cum quo)
Examples of the application of the Art using ‘mensa’ and ‘liber’
etc., using the eighteen principles
, etc., using the nine questiones
Fol. 115v–121v are blank.
Fol. 128 is blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
fol. 86–120: c. 36–40 long lines, not ruled, c. 175 × 120 mm.
fol. 121–8: frame ruling in ink, c. 30–4 long lines, c. 105 × 165 mm.
Hand(s)
In two 15th-cent. cursive hands (fols. 86–120, 121–8), the first part written in 1452 (fol. 105r)
Decoration
Diagrams deriving from Rámon Lull. (Pächt and Alexander i. 167)
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part F (fol. 129–40)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The names tally with those listed by F. A. Sinnacher, Beyträge zur Gesch. der bischöflichen Kirchen Sähen und Brixen in Tyrol VI, 1828, p. 88.
The statutes have apparently been published by L. Santifaller, ‘Gli statuti del capitolo della cattedrale di Bressanone nel medioevo’, Archivio per l’Alto Adige 22, 1927; see J. Prader, ‘Die Gerichtsbarkeit des Brixner Domkapitels’ in Festschrift zur Feier das 200 Jh. Bestandes des Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchivs (Vienna), 11, 1951, pp. 155, etc. Sinnacher, loc. cit., pp. 88–90, gives an account, of the Statutes ‘Ex Autogr. in Arch. Capit.’ Some passages from the statutes are quoted by Santifaller, Das Brixner Domkapitel in seiner persönlichen Zusammensetzung in M.A. (Schlem-Schriften, 7), Innsbruck, 1924–5, pp. 105–6 (= our MS., fol. 130–131); 116 n. 63 (= fol. 134–134v; 233–4v–84 (= fol. 131–2), from Bressanone, Arch. Capit., Cod. L. 25 n. 3 fol. 3–14v. Prader, op. cit., p. 192 n. 4, quotes another passage (= fol. 135v).
Fol. 138v–140v are blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
partly with frame ruling in ink, c. 30–35 long lines, c. 170–80 × 110–20 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in the 15th cent, in a cursive hand
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part G (fol. 141–52)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
On fol. 143v the writer says: ‘Terminemus preterea vitam nostram exemplo domini regis Alberti pacifici confratruelis nostri nouiter heu defuncti …’ According to Du Cange, Glossarium ii, p. 502, ‘confratruelis’ probably means a consort. King Albert II of Hungary and Bohemia died in October 1439; his queen, Elizabeth, daughter of the Emperor Sigismund and mother of Ladislas Postumus, died in December 1442.
Nos. XII, iª, xi 1. 1–14, v, xi, 1.15–18, x, vi, vii, viii, ix, ii, iii, iv of the collection ed. J. Huemer, ‘Historische Gedichte aus dem XV Jh. Nicolaus Petschacher’, M.I.Ö.G. 16 (1895), 638–47. He used Munich clm. 563, in which the poems are attributed to Petschacher, and our MS., then Admont 596, which he says (p. 638) has a better text, though fewer poems. Since our MS. does not include xiii, ‘Epitaphium Elizabet regine’, the poems in it may all have been written before her death in 1442.
Fol. 150–2 are blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
frame ruling in ink (apart from fol. 141r), c. 39 long lines, c. 165 × 90 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in the 15th cent, in a current fere hybrida
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part H (fol. 153–60)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Rockinger, Briefsteller cit., p. 954 n. i, lists a ‘libellus de epythetis’ by Bondi in Munich clm. 9683, fol. 13–16.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
frame ruling, c. 135 × 90 mm. , c. 23–6 lines
Hand(s)
written in the 15th cent, in a hybrid hand
Decoration
Red headings.
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part J (fol. 161–75)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The treatise in MS. Trier Stadtbibi. 691, fol. 251–6, may be the same but its ending is different; see M. W. Bloomfield, ‘Incipits’, p. 275, no. 108.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
160 × 105 mm. : 2 cols, of 43 lines ruled in ink
Hand(s)
Written in the 13th–14th cent, in two current text hands: a. fol. 161–173v; b. fol. 173ra–175v.
Decoration
Red headings and initials.
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part K (fol. 176–83)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
chiefly on sin, penitence, and redemption, imperfect at beginning and end.
The first complete paragraph
The last paragraph
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
144 × 100 mm. : 2 cols, of 35 lines ruled in ink
Hand(s)
written in the 13th–14th cent, in a current text hand
History
MS. Lyell 51 – Part L (fol. 184–92)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
with the same date as 1.
Then follows the scribe’s colophon:
Fol. 188v–192v are blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
frame ruling in ink, c. 35–7 long lines, c. 175 × 110 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in 1468 in a current fere hybrida
History
Additional Information
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-04-23: Sebastian Dows-Miller. Added attributes for locus elements.