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., and 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.
Manuscript on paper of Leonardus de Datis Florentinus OP (Leonardo Dati, c. 1365-1425), Sermones quadragesimales de flagellis peccatorum. Moral sermons for Lent addressed to a Florentine audience, each dealing with a particular vice
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: mountain, var. Briquet 11663 or 11652?., Script: Copied by one hand in small and even Gothica Hybrida Libraria with very few abbreviations. The Biblical themes with which the sermons open are by the same hand writing a large Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus) of mediocre quality., Red headings and 3-line (4-line f. 1r) plain initials at the beginning of each sermon in the same colour., Waterstains in the upper and in a lesser degree in the lower margins, but especially in the fold, where the text in the first part and towards the end of the codex is badly affected., and Binding: Contemporary quarter brown leather and square-edged wooden boards, the leather secured by means of a strip of parchment (largely lost) fixed with iron nails with floral engraved head. Spine repaired in parchment, three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover; one engraved brass catch preserved on the rear cover. Handwritten title in ink at the top of the rear board, very faded: “Sermones Quadragesimales” (16th century?).
