| Old shelfmarks |
Lambach MS. XLIII |
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| Short title |
Honorius Augustodunensis |
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| Century |
12/II |
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| Place of origin |
Austria (Lembach ?) |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Owner’s notes |
(On the spine) (s. 19) Shelfmarke "M. Memb. XLIII"; there are also two earlier labels, now illegible (Pl. XXXVIII). |
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| Previous owners |
Formerly in the library of the Benedictine abbey of Lambach in Austria. Mentioned in a list of books from the Lambach Library made c. 1210. Bought by Lyell in March 1942 from A. Rosenthal. |
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| Material |
Membr. |
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| Height × width |
285 x 205 |
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| No. of leaves |
273 (there is no 151) |
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| Numbering |
ff. s. 14, in roman numerals written in the bottom margin of the recto |
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| Gatherings |
1^8(+1) 2-19^8 20^8(+2) 21^4(4 canc.) 22-6^8 27^8(8 canc.) 28^8(8 canc.) 29-34^8 35^4 36^2(2 canc.); Quires 1-18 numbered in roman numerals at the end; quires 23-4 numbered II and III at the beginning; quire 29 numbered I at the end. |
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| Cover |
Monastic binding: original thick wooden boards, covered in s. 15 in white leather with traces of tooling (s. 15 ?), plaited head and tail bands. Remains of two clasps (s. 15 ?, modern straps), traces of bosses; two labels removed from upper cover. On the early bindings of Lambach see K. Holter, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1954) 280. |
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| No. of hands |
several hands |
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| No. of columns |
(146v-50) 2 cols. |
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| Width of columns |
Ruled in pencil or crayon apart from 58-65v and 165-6v, apparently ruled with a hard point; 215-35 x 135-45 mm. |
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| Lineation |
28-33 long lines |
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| Initials etc. |
The MS. has a series of fine initials, mostly of the vinescroll type, drawn mainly in red but with further details in lilac or light-brown ink, sometimes with parts washed in yellow or green. Some of the initials have zoomorphic features: birds (1 1v 6 44 75 192 209v), monsters (34 44v 55 97v) and a hare (108v); others have figures: the risen Christ (58v), St. John the Baptist (78v 95: freestanding figures); heads: (70 73 86) Christ and St. Mary Magdalene, (87v) St. James, (111) St. Cecilia, (113v) St. Andrew, (117) St. Thomas, (135v) a monk. On 168 is a figure of a monk, possibly intended to be Honorius himself (Pl. XIb). The style of the initials is close to the Salzburg school of the second half of s. 12, and the style of drawing the figures and faces is similar to that in the "Williram" codex from Lambach, now DBerS theol. lat. qu. 140 (see Swarzenski, Salzburger Malerei (1913) 154-5 and Abb. 413-21) and that in the St. Augustine from Lambach (Sotheby sale, 12 Nov. 1929, # 389, with plates) and the copy of Honorius on the Song of Songs, now Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery MS. W. 29 (ex-Lambach XCIV, identified by H. Menhardt, Der Nachlass des H.A., Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und Literatur 89 (1958-9) 60), illustrated in J. Rosenthal, Bibl. Med. Aevi MSS. II (Kat. 90) (1928) Taf. viii (# 144), and Walters Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Illuminated books of the M. Ages and Renaissance (1949) pl. xviii (# 27). According to Swarzenski, the use of red and violet together in the pen drawing, with occasional use of brown ink, and of yellow wash, are characteristics of MSS. from Lambach. |
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| Marginal annotations |
There are many contemporary corrections and insertions. Some of the insertions and marginal captions by the scribes, describing the contents of the text, are enclosed in frames of red. There are also marginalia in s. 12-5 hands. |
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| Printed catalogs |
A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by J.P.R. Lyell (1971) 168-74. | J. Rosenthal, Bibl. Med. Aevi MSS. II (Kat. 90) (1949) # 145 and Taf. iii 44v. |
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| Publ. descriptions |
K. Holter, Zwei Bibliotheksverzeichnisse des 13. Jh., Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung 64 (1956) 273. K. Holter, Stift Lambach. Die Hss. und die Inkunabeln, Österreichische Kunsttopographie XXXIV 2 (1959) 239. |
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| Printed copies |
(58v) O. Pächt & J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library 1 (1966) # 80 pl. vii. |
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| Source |
Mare |
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| Type of source |
cat. |
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| Source’s source |
insp. |
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