St John's College MS. 235 (fragment 47)

Two unidentified sermons (binding fragment)

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: Sermo in die epiphanie

Incipit: ⟨V⟩bi est qui natus est rex iudeorum uerbum illud regum est querencium dominum […]

Rubric: Sermo in purificacione beate marie uirginis

Incipit: ⟨C⟩onstituite diem solepnem in condempsis etc. Iudei obserua\ba/nt iiij^or. festiui […]

Two unidentified sermons,

with the end of one preceding them, not in Schneyer or PL.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fols. 4 (two bifolia, originally the centre of a quire).

Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.

Layout

In double columns, each column 190 × 60 mm. , with 10 mm between columns, in 42 lines to the column. No prickings; bounded and ruled in brown ink.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii in. (above top line).

Decoration

Headings in text ink; blanks for initials unfilled (guide letters).

Running titles give the sermon numbers (li–liii).

History

Origin: s. xiii in.

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 47 only.

Record Sources

Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Availability

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

Bibliography

Johannes Baptist Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150-1350, 11 vols. (Münster i. W., 1969–90).

Funding of Cataloguing

Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2022-04: First online publication

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges