Sermons

Description

Title: Sermons
Published / Created: [between 1225 and 1250]
Publication Place: Hautecombe (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (poor quality: heavily speckled, thick, holes, end pieces) of a collection of anonymous sermons. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in a cramped and highly abbreviated gothic bookhand, above top line.
Crude initials, 5- to 2-line, red with uninspired penwork designs in black and/or red. Rubrics and notes for rubricator. Paragraph marks in red or stroked with red.
Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides and a green gold-tooled label: "Sermones de Incarn. Uarii Manuscript". A second label covered by a paper one. Edges spattered blue-green. The same distinctive bindings also found on Marston MSS 50, 125, 135, 151, 153, 158, 159, and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance.
Provenance: Purchased in 1957 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 99 + i : 173 x 137 (140 x 105) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cistercians.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons
Sermons, Latin
Subjects: Cistercians
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons > Early works to 1800
Sermons, Latin
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Sermons. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.