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Libra Esoterica

Composite theological collection

by William Hamilton, de Lausanna Jacobus & Claraevallensis Nicolaus

  • First published:
  • 14th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Composite made up of at least two MSS., the second written c. 1420–21; with a list of contents on the back pastedown, whose first item ('tractatus wlgari') is now missing (the medieval foliation starts at ‘49’). Composite theological collection The pastedowns are made from a 15th century document, turned sideways, mentioning various personal and place-names, including [...]esa, wife of John of Alde of Pforzheim(?) (pforczhei’), doctor, and John of Eikendorf(?), priest.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology.

  • Astrology

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Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 356 digitized image(s); ff. i + i (a wide stub) + 170 + i, the first and last are modern paper, unfoliated.; Medieval chained binding. Sewn on three bands, with wood boards covered in brown leather, parchment pastedowns, the chain attached at the middle of the upper edge of the 'front' board, with the remains of two clasps at the fore-edge for strap-and-pin fastenings (lost) fastening to the 'back' board; the spine renewed, re-using the 19th-century leather title-piece lettered in gilt ‘55.’; Paper; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Hamilton 55

1400–1500—Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Hamilton 55
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: Germany
  • Record origin: Summary description (Feb. 2021) by Peter Kidd, edited by Matthew Holford. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.
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