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JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (d.1298). Sermones quadragesimales ; ANONYMOUS. Medicina pauperum and other theological treatises, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [northern Germany], 1396 290 x 210mm. 280 leaves, last as pastedown, pencilled foliation begins at 2: 1 1 1(of 12 lacking i), 2 1 4, 3-5 1 2, 6-8 1 4, 9 9(of 10 lacking vi), 10 1 4, 11 1 2(with small parchment leaf between vi-vii, ff.133-134), 12-14 1 2, 15 1 0, 16-18 1 2, 19 1 4, 20 8(?of 10, lacking at least i/x), 21 8(?of 10, lacking at least i/x), 22-23 1 0, 24 1 0(uncertain, detached as singletons), parchment sewing guards, between 35 and 65 lines written in brown ink in cursive hands in two columns between four verticals and two horizontals ruled in brown ink, justification: 230 x 56-19-61mm. rubrics in red or underlined in red, some marginal headings in red, text capitals touched red, paragraph marks in red, NUMEROUS LARGE INITIALS in red with staves often extending into the margins, numerous jaunty maniculae detailed in red, red never added ff.227-235 (lacking several leaves, final 38 leaves mouse-nibbled -- eight into text, final 10 leaves loose, bottom of f.244 cut into text, incisions to ff.247-248, small hole to text f.134, water damage to ff.2-70). Contemporary red leather over wooden boards, front pastedown part of a choirbook leaf, five metal attachments to each cover, two clasps, holes for chain fitment on lower cover, stitched to four bands (spine split, lower cover worn to boards and one metal attachment lacking, clasps restored). PROVENANCE: 1. Written by Jacob Schiltrim in 1396: colophon on f.134v ...dompni Jacobi Schiltrimi. Anno dni m o ccc 0 xcvj. In vigilia purificacionis marie (2 February). A second colophon on f.226 refers to the first mass of Johannes Heuhase: Et sic est finis anno dni m 0 ccc 0 xcvj. In vigilia festum trinitatis qua[ando] dno Johannes Heuhase cantabat prima[m] missa[m] sua[m] (23 May). The title dominus given to Schiltrim and Heuhase shows that they were members of a monastic community; the book was presumably written as a functional compilation, chiefly of sermons, which was then chained in the library. A few annotations are in Low German. 2. H. Legel: bookplate inside upper cover. CONTENT: Moral exemplars, miracle stories, especially of the Virgin, lacking opening ff.2-14v; legend of St Catherine ff.14v-16v; legend of St Lawrence ff.16v-17v; instructions for priests on administering the Mass etc ff.17v-18; list of readings ff.18-18v; story of the hermit and the prostitute ff.18v-19; story of the Three Kings f.19; List of Sundays, outside Lent, each assigned one of the following Lenten sermons so that the Lenten sequence can serve throughout the year ff.19v-20; Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones quadragesimales , opening Filia populi mei..Quamvis solemnitas quadragesimales... , lacking one leaf between ff.109-110, ending ...et regnat per infinita seculorum secula. Amen ff.20-131v; sermons on the Passion, the compassion of the Virgin, with omitted text on added parchment leaf, and on the judgement ff.131v-134v; colophon Explicit sermones per xl. scdm fratrem Jaco. de Voragine, Arciepiscopus januensus, et frater ordinis predicatorum... f.134v. Indulgence of John XXII ff.134v-135; sermon for the dedication of a church with exemplars ff.135-139, section of omitted text f.139v; Iste liber dicitur medicina pauperum , opening Maria magdalena et maria jacobi et maria salome... f.140, the summer part, with an interpolated sermon on the Conception and Nativity of the Virgin ff.181-183, ending ...cum patre et filio et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat f.198; on the punishments of hell, ending with a list of the great events that happened on Sundays ff.198-199; Medicina pauperum , winter part from Advent to Quinquagesima Sunday, opening Hora est nos iam de sompno surgere... f.199v, with an interpolated sermon for Christmas ff.207v-210, ending with colophon quoted above f.226 (see J.B. Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalt