Sermones quadragesimales

Description

Title: Sermones quadragesimales
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: Italy (Northern Italy?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment containing a collection of sermons with a commentary on the Passion and Events of sacred history
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria with many abbreviations, especially in the Biblical quotations. Abundant annotations and additions by various hands, which on some pages may cover all four margins.
Many irregular lower edges and lower outer corners. A repair of a tear on f. 80 made before writing.
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 2- or 3-line red and blue plain or slightly flourished initials, with guide letters.
Binding: remnants of an early binding: heavy bevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten, formerly covered with a fragment of a parchment manuscript; sewn on three split leather thongs. Endleaves from a missal on parchment (Italy, 14th century), erased.
Provenance: Purchased from H.P. Kraus on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. ii + 86 : 270 x 195 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Lenten sermons
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Lenten sermons
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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