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Summary Catalogue no.: 2299

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Ivo of Chartres, Sermons

Here without title or author's name. The first sermon is preceded by a list of all the twenty-one which correspond with Migne's Patrologia Latina, tom. clxii, col. 505, sermm. 1-21, except that no. 5 begins 'Qualiter ueteris ac noui', wanting the first part as printed, and that the place of no. 6 is taken by the Prologus in Decretum (clxi, 47: fol. 28v).

Incipit: De sacramento baptismatis ... Quoniam populus ad fidem uocatus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 62 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.625 × 7.25 in.

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 227)

Binding

White parchment on boards, 13th cent. (?) work (or original (?)).

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see removed from Sherborne in 1078: 'Liber ecclesie cathedralis Sarum' (s. xv/xvi). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Apparently acquired by the Library between 1605 and 1611.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 297

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.