Sermons in Latin
Sermons, etc., in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum. [Germany, mid-13th to mid-14th centuries]
ii + 202 + ii leaves, c. 155 × 115 mm, ff.1–105 foliated in medieval ink; variously ruled in ink, the long first section in 2 columns of 33–34 lines, other sections with up to 55 lines, or in in a single column with fewer lines; written in gothic script by several scribes, mainly 13th-century, but ff.123–154 14th-century; decorated with some 3-line and 2-line initials in blue, sometimes with red ornament, other initials in plain red or blank spaces for initials; MEDIEVAL BINDING: sewn on three alum-tawed thongs laced into horizontal channels in oak boards covered with brown leather, blind-stamped with several tools including a fleur-de-lys in a lozenge and a flower in a circle; a strap-and-pin fastening attaches from the back board to the front; rebacked and repaired, the strap modern
TEXT
Fifty sermons, starting with ‘De nativitate. Parvulus natus est nobis etc. B’. Tanta est karissimi dominice nativitatis sollempnitas …’ (f.1r), the first 24 are in calendar order from Christmas to the 18th Sunday after Pentecost; a 14th-century table of the preceding sermons (f.106r); seven sermons for unspecified occasions (f. 107r); sermons for the 13th to 16th Sundays after Pentecost (f.115r); a series of short texts (f.123r), including sermons and commonplace verses on the seven sins, five senses, ten commandments, etc.; a commentary on the Song of Songs (f.156r); sermons on the temporale (f.162r); three sermons (f.174r); fourteen tales (f.178r), including one about St Bernard; notes and sermons (f.182r); sermons on the Ascension and the Trinity (f.194r), ending at f.202v. Four endleaves, at front and back, are from a 14th-century noted hymnal. Several of the sections of text begin and/or end imperfectly; a modern list of contents is inserted at the back, and a much more detailed description is N.R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II (Oxford, 1969), pp. 33–35.
PROVENANCE
The Benedictine Abbey of St Godehard, Hildesheim: inscribed in the 15th century, ‘Liber monasterii sancti Godehardi prope hildens’ ordinis sancti Benedicti’, and ‘Sermones de tempore, et de aliquibus sanctis, et Stella clericorum’ (f.i verso); probably acquired, with many other Hildesheim manuscripts, by: Adrian Towers, monk of the English Benedictine house of Lamspringe, near Hildesheim (until its dissolution in 1802), and subsequently of: Ampleforth Abbey Yorkshire: listed in the Appendix to the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Second Report, 1874, p. 109 no. 9 as MS 83, later renumbered MS 191.
Sermons in Latin
Sermons, etc., in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum. [Germany, mid-13th to mid-14th centuries]
ii + 202 + ii leaves, c. 155 × 115 mm, ff.1–105 foliated in medieval ink; variously ruled in ink, the long first section in 2 columns of 33–34 lines, other sections with up to 55 lines, or in in a single column with fewer lines; written in gothic script by several scribes, mainly 13th-century, but ff.123–154 14th-century; decorated with some 3-line and 2-line initials in blue, sometimes with red ornament, other initials in plain red or blank spaces for initials; MEDIEVAL BINDING: sewn on three alum-tawed thongs laced into horizontal channels in oak boards covered with brown leather, blind-stamped with several tools including a fleur-de-lys in a lozenge and a flower in a circle; a strap-and-pin fastening attaches from the back board to the front; rebacked and repaired, the strap modern
TEXT
Fifty sermons, starting with ‘De nativitate. Parvulus natus est nobis etc. B’. Tanta est karissimi dominice nativitatis sollempnitas …’ (f.1r), the first 24 are in calendar order from Christmas to the 18th Sunday after Pentecost; a 14th-century table of the preceding sermons (f.106r); seven sermons for unspecified occasions (f. 107r); sermons for the 13th to 16th Sundays after Pentecost (f.115r); a series of short texts (f.123r), including sermons and commonplace verses on the seven sins, five senses, ten commandments, etc.; a commentary on the Song of Songs (f.156r); sermons on the temporale (f.162r); three sermons (f.174r); fourteen tales (f.178r), including one about St Bernard; notes and sermons (f.182r); sermons on the Ascension and the Trinity (f.194r), ending at f.202v. Four endleaves, at front and back, are from a 14th-century noted hymnal. Several of the sections of text begin and/or end imperfectly; a modern list of contents is inserted at the back, and a much more detailed description is N.R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II (Oxford, 1969), pp. 33–35.
PROVENANCE
The Benedictine Abbey of St Godehard, Hildesheim: inscribed in the 15th century, ‘Liber monasterii sancti Godehardi prope hildens’ ordinis sancti Benedicti’, and ‘Sermones de tempore, et de aliquibus sanctis, et Stella clericorum’ (f.i verso); probably acquired, with many other Hildesheim manuscripts, by: Adrian Towers, monk of the English Benedictine house of Lamspringe, near Hildesheim (until its dissolution in 1802), and subsequently of: Ampleforth Abbey Yorkshire: listed in the Appendix to the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Second Report, 1874, p. 109 no. 9 as MS 83, later renumbered MS 191.
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