MS. Lat. th. e. 22
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Sermons, mostly for Lent, with texts on confession; Germany, 1392
Contents
Language(s): Latin
15th-century table of contents pasted on to the upper pastedown.
'Quadragesimale bonum' (table of contents)
Alphabetical subject index to the sermon collection, using both the arabic and roman foliations.
'De humilitate sermo' (table of contents)
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
29–32 long lines
Hand(s)
Cursiva antiquor (Ältere gotische Kursive).
Decoration
Plain red initials.
Binding
Medieval binding. Sewn on four double bands laced into horizontal channels and pegged into wood (beech?) boards, covered with leather dyed red; the single (intact) strap fastening from the back to the front board with shield-shaped clasp and catch-plates. Fore-edge tabs. The front board with a title ‘Sermones quadragesimales’ writing in a large formal gothic script on a parchment slip, too long to be attached horizontally and therefore placed vertically.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Charterhouse of Salvatorberg ‘Iste liber est cartusien’ prope Erfford’’ (fol. 1r, 15th century); ‘est Carthus’ prope Erffordiam’ (fol. 1r, 15th century); ‘Est Carthusien’ prope Erffordiam’ (fol. 132v). Probably 038 or 39 in the catalogue by P. Lehmann, Mittelalt. Bibliothekakataloge Deutschlands II, 496.
Label ‘77’ (19th century) on spine.
Several 19th(?)- and 20th-century pencil annotations, some erased, including prices and price-code (upper pastedown), e.g. ‘K/K/’, perhaps Bernard Quaritch’s code for £1 1s.
Purchased from Bernard Halliday booksellers, December 1935 (fol. 1r).
MS. Lat. th. e. 22 (binding fragments)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
PL 5, col. 163–167B, ‘propter quosdam infideles’ (fol. 133v)
Fol. 133v, extract: PL 140, col. 950C ‘sacerdos interroget penitentem’– ending imperfectly col. 951C ‘si fecisti’.
Extracts (?): beginning imperfect PL col. 981A ‘leguminibus siccis’–984A ‘genu flexiones pater noster cantet [fol. 134v] ... centies prosternat ...', apparently followed by PL 985A (c. 31) 'Mensuram autem temporis ...', then by passages from bk. 18 (PL 940).
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., c. 39–46 lines, written above top line.
Hand(s)
Protogothic
Decoration
Red initials.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2020-12-08: Andrew Dunning Revised with consultation of original.