Manuscript on paper of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: several bull's heads including Piccard Ochsenkopf V.636 and similar in design to V.305-13., Script: Written in hybrida script, perhaps by a single scribe., Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line. Paragraph marks, initial strokes and underlining in red; rubrics added sporadically., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Sewn on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covers lined with parchment documents; text side pasted down and illegible. Covered in white tawed skin with two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Remains of label with title on spine; traces of inscription on upper board. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Herolt, Johann.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
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”.
