Sermones de tempore

Description

Title: Sermones de tempore
Creator: Herolt, Johann
Published / Created: [1436?]
Publication Place: Southern Germany or Austria
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Iohannes Herolt OP (d. c. 1468), Sermones de tempore, incomplete: from the first Sunday of Advent through the fourth Sunday after Easter
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied probably by one scribe writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria. When the first letter on a page is a majuscule it is as a rule made larger, with some calligraphic development.
Red stroking of majuscules and underlining, red plain generally 3-line initials.
Leaves are badly waterstained in the outer lower corner in the second half of the manuscript.
Binding: 15th-16th century. Parchment over light wooden boards; leather spine with three raised bands; marks of two clasps. At the top of the rear board there is an excavation for the staple to which a chain was attached. On the spine parchment label with the handwritten title (19th century?) “JOHANNES HEROLT / Sermones Discipuli / De Tempore / saec. XV. 1436.” At the top of the rear cover close to the spine a printed paper label containing space for a shelfmark covering a large capital “W”; the handwritten shelfmark is “5867”.
Provenance: Purchased from Sam Fogg on the Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper Fund in Memory of Lathrop Colgate Harper Litt. D.
Extent: ff. 384 : 215 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 864
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Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Herolt, Johann.
Dominicans.
Subject (Topic): Church year sermons
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Herolt, Johann
Dominicans
Church year sermons > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Austria > 15th century
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Iohannes Herolt, Sermones de Tempore. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.