‘Materia passionis domini’, in Latin [Germany (Hildesheim?)], 1495(?)

310×215mm, paper (watermark of the type ‘tête de boeuf au serpent s’enroulant autour d’une croix’, but not very close to any in Briquet), i+i+30+i leaves, COMPLETE, collation: i8, ii12, iii8, iv2, the main text paginated 1-60, leaf signatures in pale red ink, 2 columns, 42-45 lines, extensively water-stained, affecting legibility in some places, bound in three-quarter calf and marbled paper, in November 1870 according to a note on the pastedown; lots 43-49 bound uniformly

PROVENANCE

(1) Perhaps made in Hildesheim: until November 1870 bound with an incunable printed in 1471, as recorded in a pastedown note; according to Ker, that binding has its stamps arranged in a typically Hildesheim pattern. (2) Inscribed, late 15th or 16th century, ‘Prespositus in Esscherde [i.e. Enschede?] nec non plebanus in Vallens est possessor huius libri’ (flyleaf). (3) Inscribed ‘Libri octo de ecclesiasticis officiis’ by a 17th-century hand (flyleaf) (4) Ampleforth Abbey, formerly MS 7, with their purple ink-stamp and shelfmark label ‘M/183/S.S.’; described by Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 1977, p.29, not mentioning the number/date between ‘amen’ and the explicit.

TEXT

‘Passio domini nostri Ihesu Christi ad quinque principalia puncta sive articulos reduci potest. Et sunt hec: prodico detestabilis … amen. 1495(? the last two digits unclear). Explicit materia passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi’.