MS. Lyell 65
Passio s. Eustachii; Haimo on Apocalypse
Contents
Language(s): Latin
B.H.L. 2760. The text is not identical with Mombritius, Sanctuarium, fol. cclxiiv–cclxvi or Acta Sanctorum Sept VI, pp. 123–35, but has elements of both.
A leaf is missing after fol. 7 (= Acta SS. cit., pp. 134 1. 16–135 1–37). Most of fol. 8r is left blank.
Stegmüller Rep. Bibi., no. 3122. PL 117 col. 937–1220. The work is generally attributed now to Haimo of Auxerre.
There are a great many contemporary corrections and insertions over erasures. The scribe left a gap of a few lines on fol. 109. The missing part of the text (PL 117 col. 1102C14–1104A14) has been supplied, mostly on an inserted leaf, fol. 108.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
160 × 105 mm. : 177 leaves: 29 long lines ruled in pencil
Hand(s)
Written in Germany in the late 12th cent.
Decoration
Headings in red: lemmata of the text of the Apocalypse underlined in red, except on fol. 177, where they are written in red.
Vinescroll type initial in red and violet ink on fol. 9r, and small initial in blue and red on fol. 113v; decorated red initials on fols. 1r, 8v, 41r, 80v, 98v, 127v, 145v. (Pächt and Alexander i. 93)
Binding
Contemporary binding of thick wooden boards covered with smooth white leather, with tabs projecting at top and bottom of spine; original sewing; chain mark on top of the back cover. Leather strap fastening to pin on upper edge, clasps (one missing) probably contemporary. 15th-cent. title on upper cover, later title on spine.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The top of fol. 1, which may have had an inscription, has been cut off.
Formerly in the library of the Premonstratensian monastery of Steinfeld in the Eifel, in the diocese of Cologne, deleted contemporary note on fol. 8r: ‘liber ecclesie sancte Marie sanctique Potentini in Steinvelt’. On the front cover is written: ‘56’; on the spine ‘N 9’ and on fol. 1: ‘Loc: 255: N: 13’ (18th cent.). For the Steinfeld MSS. see P. Bloch, Aachener Kunstblätter 22 (1961), 37–60.
Later acquired by Leander van Ess of Darmstadt: no. 31 in his sale catalogue of 1823.
Bought in 1824 by Sir Thomas Phillipps: no. 416 in his library; and lot 29 in the Phillipps sale, Sotheby’s 6–9 June 1910.
Bought by Lyell in July 1942 from Quaritch; see B. Quaritch, Cat. of MSS., 1931, no. 29 and plate (fol. 9r).
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Record Sources
Digital Images
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Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-12-16: Andrew Dunning Revised from description by Albinia de la Mare.