Sermons

Description

Title: Sermons
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1325]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thin, poor quality) of unidentified sermons
Description: In Latin.
Written by three (?) scribes in small, neat Anglicana. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-145r, 174r-188v, rubrics and marginal notes throughout. Scribe 2) ff. 145r-173r. Scribe 3) f. 173v (traced over hand of Scribe 2?).
Crude 3- and 2-line initials in red, the initial on f. 1r with red flourishes. Many small initials not executed. Rubrics and paragraph marks in red, many missing or erased. Guide-letters for rubricator.
Numerous folios were end pieces; corners and edges have been squared and straightened by adding pieces of coarse paper. Folio 84, very poor quality and thin at the center, was reinforced on verso (blank) with a strip of paper.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a red gold-tooled label "Manuscript." Earlier fastenings covered over. Boards detached.
Provenance: Purchased from S. Harrison Thomson in 1970, with the Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. ii + 189 + ii : 220 x 147 (170 x 110) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 472
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Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons
Sermons, Latin
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons > Early works to 1800
Sermons, Latin
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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