MS. Hamilton 14

The same collection apparently found (in shorter form?) in Gotha, Chart. A 24c, and BSB, Clm 12293, (E. Wunderle, Katalog der mittelalterlichen lateinischen Papierhandschriften ... Gotha'schen Stiftung (2002), p. 83).

Three sermons for each feast, except as noted: SS Andrew, Barbara, Nicholas, Conception BVM, Lucy, Thomas, Stephen, John the Evangelist, Innocents, Fabian and Sebastian, Agnes, Vincent, Conversion of Paul, Purification BVM, Blaise, Agatha, Dorothy, Peter in cathedra, Matthias, Gregory, Annunciation, George, Mark, Philip and James, Invention of the Cross, John ante portam latinam, 'x milium militum', John the Baptist, 'de sancto petro tantum' (one sermon), Paul (one sermon), Peter and Paul (two sermons), 'de commemoratione sancti pauli' (one sermon), Margaret, 'de divisione apostolorum', Alexius, Mary Magdalen, James, Anne, Peter in chains, Laurence, Assumption BVM, Bartholomew, Augustine, Decollation of John the Baptist, Felix and Aduactus, Nativity BVM, Exaltation of the Cross, Matthew, Maurice (one sermon), Wenceslas (one sermon), Michael (four sermons, the fourth 'uel de animabus'), Jerome, Luke (two sermons, followed by 'vita S. Luce' (cf. BHL 4973, PL 95.1530–5, but abbreviated and ending differently), 11000 Virgins ('sequitur passio pro iijo sermone'), ... (text lost between fols. 130 and 131), All Saints (three sermons, followed by 'sermo iiijus de omnibus sanctis et de animabus', followed by three sermons 'de animabus'), Martin, Livinus (one sermon), Elizabeth, Cecily (end of the final sermon missing between fols. 148 and 149), Katherine.

The incipits of the first three and final three sermons as follows:

Followed by two notes: (1) that the third sermon for St Matthew may be used for the feast of the dedication; (2) why continence is easily endangered, quoting Bernard of Clairvaux ep. 182 (PL 182.261). Rest of fol. 151rb blank.

Note of indulgences granted by fourteen bishops, including 'our bishop' Witko (Witigo of Kolditz, bp. of Meissen 1312–1342, or perhaps Witigo de Wur, bp. of Meissen 1266–1293), and note of local miracles performed by St Quirinus, mentioning 'Stargrat', 'Stregow' (Strzegow), and 'Mulkenicz' (Mulknitz), one miracle dated 1391.

Fol. 153v blank.

Fol. 154r blank, except for cancelled opening passage of the text. Fol. 179vb blank.

Graesse, cc. 1 (treated as one unit with the prologue), 2 (sections 1–9), St Barbara (see below), 3 (ending 'omnibus generatur', Graesse p. 29); Conception of the Virgin (see below), 4–8, , 9 (sections 1–12), 10–11, 12 (without the prologue), 13 (ending 'rediit ad locum suum', Graesse p. 86), 14–17, 19, 21, 22–26, 28, 31 (with the preceding paragraph 'De festivitatibus'), 32–36, 37 (section 1 only), 38–39, 210 (207, Dorothy, varied), 42–44, 45 (ending 'populo demonstratur', Graesse p. 187), 46 (sections 1–17), 47, Gertrude (see below), 49–51, 53–58, Passio S. Georgii (see below), 59 (ending shortly after the beginning of sect. 2), 61, 63 (ends imperfect, fol. 233vb 'die fuisset sepultum. Plura et ||', cf. Graesse p. 283 near bottom). Fol. 234r-v contains part of c. 67, St James the Less, 'sicut in calcaneis ... monicionibus conuerterentur', Grasse pp. 296–9.

Often shorter than the text printed in Graesse. Many chapters are followed by a paragraph of 'merita' summarizing or giving additional reasons for a saint's veneration, e.g. (fol. 184rb) 'sancta barbara habet sibi omnes seruientes a subita morte custodire...', (fol. 186va) 'Sancta lucia habet contra fluxum sanguinis opem ferre...'.

The following texts are not printed by Graesse:

Glosses or notes in German, fol. 195v.