Sermons, etc

Description

Title: Sermons, etc
Creator: Conrad, of Saxony
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1475]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (with parchment of poor quality for inner and outer bifolios of each gathering) of a collection of sermons and materials for the construction of sermons
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: unidentified crown in gutter.
Script: Written by two scribes in Secretary script: Scribe 1 (pp. 1-141) uses a looped d; Scribe 2 (pp. 142-502) uses an unlooped d.
Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, red with blue designs and vice versa throughout manuscript. Brackets, initial strokes and underlining, in red, throughout. Opening words or line of each sermon in a careful text hand.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled title ("Sermones") on spine; dark blue cloth sides. Impression of oval label in upper register of spine.
Provenance: Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 2768). Presented to Yale in 1933 by Henry Barrett Hinckley.
Extent: ff. i + 252 + i : 219 x 146 (149 x 93) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Conrad, of Saxony.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons
Sermons, Latin
Subjects: Conrad, of Saxony
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons > Early works to 1800
Sermons, Latin
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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