MS. Add. A. 288

Summary Catalogue no.: 29494

Thirty sermons by various authors on St Mary the Virgin.

Incipit: (first sermon) Hier begint een seer schoon Cappittel vander grooter goedertierentjz enn werdichz van Maria. Sinte Ambrosius seet, alzo ghenadig was Maria

Colophon: Desen boeck heeft ghescreuen Suster lysbeth lenaerts ... ende is voleynt Jnt Jaer ons heeren Anno xv^c lxxviij Den xv^en dach Junij ...

Language(s): Dutch

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 144 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 160 mm.

Dimensions (written): 160–5 × 115–20 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 26–31 lines.

Decoration

Coloured initials and headings.

Binding

Blind-stamped leather over boards, late 16th century.

History

Origin: Netherlands; 1578

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought from H. Grevel on Feb. 19 1885 for £1 1s.

Record Sources

Adapted (2017) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, and the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 636

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 637

Bibliography

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 14

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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