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Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super epistolas canonicas

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Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, Herlufsholm 499.6

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla
Shelfmarks Herlufsholm 499.6
Page/Folio Reference Pastedowns
Material Parchment
Place of Origin England, Oxford?
Date of Origin 1401-1500
Script, Hands

English cursive hand/Anglicana with the signature circular, one-stroke e, sharp v-shaped r extending below the baseline,and the r rotunda with a pronounced hook below after round letters.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
More about the Condition

Probably from an octavo manuscript.

Current Condition

Extent Two pieces of the same leaf
Dimensions 162 x 101 mm
More about the Current Condition

The text is well preserved, but unfortunately both pieces are obscured by paper book labels pasted on top of them. In addition, the back pastedown is further hidden by a clear plastic pocket glued onto it, intended for a paper borrowing slip.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Nicholas of Lyra
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Postilla literalis
    • Content Description

      Commentary on the first Epistle of Peter.
    • Front cover v
    • Edition Compare the printed edition GW M26538, copy 2 Inc.s.a. 829-3 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), fol. 308v, end of the B column, to the beginning of the B column of fol. 309v.

History

Origin

England. 
Provenance

The English cursive hand in combination with the Oxford binding suggests this manuscript may have been associated with the medieval university.

Host Volume

Title Valla, Lorenzo, Elegantiarum Latinae linguae libri sex
Date of Origin/Publication Lyon, apud Thibaud Payen
Place of Origin/Publication 1555
Shelfmark Herlufsholm 499.6
Remarks

Dark leather Oxford-style binding. The covers are blind-tooled with an oval centrepiece in a floral design, but otherwise undecorated. The centrepiece is number viii in Neil Ker’s reference work Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, who states it is predominantly found bindings from the 1560s and 70s.

The host volume belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.
This book is part of a donation made to the school by count Otto Thott (1703-1785), who became warden of the school in 1763 until his death in 1785. Well-known for his book collecting, he gave about 6000 volumes to Herlufsholm’s library in several shipments beginning in 1777. Thott bought many books from Oxford, where he studied for a while in the 1720s. 

There are several pre-Thott ownership inscriptions in the volume. Before Thott, it belonged to a J. Gandy, who notes in his inscription that it is from the library of the composer John Hingeston (1606-1683), pupil of Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625). John Hingeston in turn received it from his brother A. Hingston, alumnus of Pembroke College in Cambridge.

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