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., and 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”.
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Cloche 3934, Briquet Cloche 3979, and Briquet Tete de cerf 15499., Script: Written in a running hand by five scribes: 1) ff. 3r-85r; 2) ff. 85r-115r; 3) ff. 116v-117r; 4) ff. 115v, 117v-129v, 130v (art. 58); 5) ff. 131r-137v., Crude 3-line initials, in red, at beginning of each sermon; guide-letters for rubricator. Underlining of names of authors and of Biblical quotations, and initial strokes, all in red. Rubrics often lacking., Rodent damage in outer margins, from f. 68 on; no loss of text., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on four tawed, slit strap supports laced through tunnels in the edge of flush beech boards to a groove on the inside and pegged. The spine is square, back cornered, and lined between sewing supports with stubs of vellum that extend on the inside of the boards (in front: partially visible document in Latin, written in 14th/15th-century chancery hand; in back: Missal, Germany, ca. 1150, initials in orange, with neumes, small format: part of a bifolium). Plain, wound endbands on tawed cores which sit on the spine. Covered in tawed (?) skin, originally white, with a small tab of a single layer of skin at head and tail. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board and two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board, and both boards cut in to accomodate the straps. Rodent damage, and all but two bosses wanting. Most quires reinforced in center with narrow strips of parchment, including portions of a leaf used for pen trials (15th century); and of an unidentified text written in batarde with a pen-and-ink drawing (15th century). On outside of upper cover, written in ink: "Super epistolis dominicalibus/ Sermo de preceptis".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing sermons for the church year cycle
Description:
In Latin., Annotations and pen trials on endleaves., These sermons also in Paris, Bibl. Mazarine ms. 1042., Script: Early gothic minuscule., and Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, gilt-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin