MS. Lat. th. d. 35
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Homiliary; English, late 12th cent.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
By Guillelmus de Merula (nos. 2–19 in Schneyer, Rep. II, pp.494–6) with others interspersed.
A large collection of sermons arranged roughly according to the church year, including sermons by Bernard of Clairvaux , Ivo of Chartres , Geoffrey Babion , Hildebert of Lavardin , Gébouin of Troyes , Petrus Comestor , Hugh of St. Victor and ‘ Odo canonicus ’, also a group by Caesarius of Arles (fol.213–21v) and another group found in Carolingian homiliaries including a homily by Haymo of Auxerre (fol.187v–91v, 192v–5v)
Further sermons and short pieces, including extracts from Gregory, Moralia in Job and from sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux , and sentences from the school of Anselm of Laon .
Added by a hand different from the main scribe, in spaces originally left blank.
Physical Description
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 233)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Ex libris of Pipewell Abbey, 15th century: 'Pipwell' (original front pastedown). Annotations by a 16th cent. hand, probably pre-Reformation, which also annotated MS. Rawl. A. 388, from Pipewell.
George Brudenell, Deene Park, Northamptonshire
Sotheby's 10 July 1967, lot 46; bought.
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.