MS. Lat. th. d. 36
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
A: Homiliary. B: Theological summa. English, 15th century.
Physical Description
Binding
15th cent. binding in wooden boards covered with white leather, rebacked. Traces of one clasp fastening to outer edge of lower cover.
Accompanying Material
The flyleaves (fol.1–4, 118–20, originally four bifolia: leaf wanting after fol.118) are from an early 13th cent. commentary on Vacarius, Liber pauperum, books VIII (fol.118–20) and IX (fol.1–4), 2 cols., fol.1–4, 54–63 lines, text space 230–40 × 134–44mm.; fol.118–20, 59–60 lines, text space 242–3 × 158 mm. The fragments are not from the same MS. as the Magdalen College, Oxford fragments in N.R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford bindings (Oxford Bibliog. Soc. N.S.V, 1951–2), nos. 16, 905.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
' Batho de Ugstall ' (?Uggeshall, Suffolk), 16th cent. (fol. 112)
Tollemache family, Helmingham Hall: Helmingham Hall, MS. 54
Sotheby's 8 July 1970, lot 62
Charles Traylen, Cat. 75, item 107, bought 1971.
MS. Lat. th. d.36 – Part 1
Contents
Based on Haymo of Auxerre , Easter - Advent followed (fol.89) by saints' days, Philip and James - Matthew, 150 homilies, of which 53 are by Haymo, 20 are taken from Haymo's commentary on the Epistles, and 33 are found in the interpolated version of Haymo's homiliary as pr. P.L. 118 (see H. Barré, Les Homéliaires carolingiens de l'Ecole d'Auxerre (Studi e Testi 225), 1962, esp. pp.50–4). There are also several genuine homilies of Bede (fol.83, 90, 91v(extracts), 93, 103), one of Leo the Great (fol.25) and B.H.L. 7851 on Stephen (fol.98). Three homilies on texts from Matthew (fol.95v, 97, 102) have not been identified. The remainder are found in other Carolingian homiliaries (chiefly of Smaragdus , Rabanus Maurus and Ps.-Bede ) or are taken from commentaries by Ambrosiaster , Bede and Alcuin . Up to fol.85v the collection in our MS. corresponds very closely with the collection in Trinity College, Cambridge MS.B.3.26(105), 12th cent.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
2 cols., 47 lines up to fol.44v, then 45 lines, ruled in ink
Hand(s)
Written in a small text hand
Decoration
Red initials and headings in first quire, remainder unrubricated.
MS. Lat. th. d.36 – Part 2
Contents
A short summa, on the Apostles' creed, the Lord's prayer, the ten commandments, sacraments, virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, beatitudes, vices. Followed by a table of beatitudes, etc.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
2 cols., 45 lines, ruled in crayon
Hand(s)
Written in a current anglicana
Decoration
Plain red initials.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.