MS. Bodl. 172
Summary Catalogue no.: 2034
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Latin sermons for holy days and other special occasions: but according to a list at fol. ii the first fourteen and part of the fifteenth are lost at the beginning, and one leaf is wanting after fol. 56: there were originally at least seventy-four sermons.
The first sermon of which the beginning is preserved.
Two sermons are directly attributed to Petrus Comestor (fols. 19, 63) and others are by him, but not all, in spite of a nearly contemporary title 'Sermones magistri Petri Manducatoris' (fol. ii verso).
Later theological notes are on foll. iv, ii, 63v, 64v, and scattered about the volume: one on fol. 63v begins 'Mandata secundum Abuyle super Evangelium', on the Decalogue.
Part of the preface, added 13th century.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., with wide margins
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Binding
White leather on boards, English 14th cent. (?) work.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Windsor, collegiate chapel: evidence of the binding (MLGB).
Presented by the dean and canons of Windsor in 1612.
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-21: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.