Sermons

Description

Title: Sermons
Published / Created: [between 1200 and 1210]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a collection of anonymous sermons, mostly drawn from the Italian Homiliary
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in a nice large early gothic script, above top line.
Attractive pen-and-ink drawings throughout the manuscript, in red, though much of manuscript now stained. Folio 1r with a partial border formed of fantastic beasts, dragons and grotesques. Other drawings in margins include a fantastic bird, f. 9r; a dragon with a human head issuing forth stylized scrolls, f. 40v; a scroll inhabited by a fantastic bird, f. 49r; a lizard-like creature, its tail forming a partial border, f. 53r; a grotesque, f. 73v. Several drawings in the lower margin have been trimmed. Plain initials in red, some with penwork scrolls or simple flourishing. Headings and underlining of Biblical passages in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century (?), Italy (?). Brown leather case with title, in ink, on spine: "Homil. in Evangel". Fragment of an unidentified 13th-century Latin document (monastic register?) bound in as second front flyleaf.
Provenance: Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + i + 193 + i : 234 x 163 (170 x 104) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

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

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Citation: Sermons. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.