A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

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.

(fols. 1r–122v)
Sermon collection
(fols. 1r-115r)
Sermons for Lent,

'Quadragesimale bonum' (table of contents)

Incipit: Tu autem cum ieiunas unge capud tuum Mt vi. In hoc ieiunii capite necessarium nobis est ut taliter ieiunemus [first sermon]
Incipit: Homo quidam fecit cenam magnam […] Luc. 14 Homo iste est Iesus Christus vt dicit Glossa, qui vt famelicas animas saturaret factus est cibus hominum [last sermon]
(fols. 115r-117r)
Rubric: Sermo communis
Incipit: Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile […] Notandum est quod triplex est dies. Prima est temporalis vite
(fols. 117r-118r)
Rubric: De confessione
Incipit: Confitemini alter utrum peccata […] Circa confessionem salutiferam quinque per ordinem sunt notanda. Primum est quod confessio debet esse festina
(fols. 118r-119r)
Rubric: Sermo communis
Incipit: Confitemini alter utrum etc. Notandum quod homines tripliciter peccant, ut dicit Ysidorus, primo in patrem per infirmitatem ut gulosi et luxuriosi, et taliter peccauit Dauid
(fols. 119r-121r)
Rubric: X aliena peccata
Incipit: Ab occultis meis munda me domine et ab alienis parce seruo tuo. Sic orauit sanctus Dauid
(fols. 121r-122v)
Rubric: Questiones de vij mortalibus peccatis
Incipit: Queritur de septem viciis capitalium quando quodlibet eorum possit dici mortale et quando veniale, ad quod respondeo secundum Augustinum
Colophon: Finito libro sit laus et gloria cristo. Expliciunt sermones ewangeliorum completi post .................................................. anno domini Mº.CCCº.xciiº in die Inuencionis sancte Crucis.
(fols. 123r–124v)
Sermon
Rubric: (fol. 122v) Sequitur sermo in die parascheue et de sancta cruce
Incipit: Baiolans sibi crucem exiuit in eum qui dicitur calvarie locus Io. 20. Hodie mater ecclesia uniuersis filiis suis
Explicit: Crux cristi clauis est paradysi.
(fols. 124v–125v)
Sermon
Rubric: Sermo de eodem
Incipit: Item preter illa que dicta sunt notanda alia quatuor bona
Explicit: Vulnerata crura pendant. Cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.
(fol. 125v)
Incipit: Wo man den saltir sal laze lousin. Man sal eyne salm
Explicit: und sprich disse besc⟨h⟩werunge.
Language(s): German
(Crossed through and effaced.)
(fols. 126r–127v)

Alphabetical subject index to the sermon collection, using both the arabic and roman foliations.

Schneyer, Beobachtungen zu lateinischen Sermoneshandschriften der Staatsbibliothek München (1958), no. 5197 (p. 45) lists other copies of a Quadragesimale beginning with the sermon here beginning fol. 1r and ending with the sermon here beginning fol. 123r.
(fols. 127v–128v)
Sermon
Rubric: De extremo iudicio
Incipit: Arguet mundum de iudicio quia non timent. quo nichil est terribilius. Heb. x. Terribilis quidem est expectacio iudicii
Explicit: non potest sic et illa summa dampnatorum.
(fols. 128v–130r)
Sermon
Incipit: Humiliamini sub potenti manu dei. iª. pet. ult. Homini remanentem quatuor habere oportet
Explicit: unam des heiligen geistis.

'De humilitate sermo' (table of contents)

Language(s): Latin, with the closing formula in German
(fols. 130v-132v)
Declaraciones breves de concordancia epistolarum et ewangeliorum dominicalium (Title from list of contents on pastedown.)
Incipit: Introitus collecta leccio et ewangelium concordant quia peccator
Explicit: ita monet apostolus ut cum ipso resurgamus.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: proximum pertinencia
Form: codex
Support: Paper, watermarks steer's heads (three varieties) cf. Briquet 14448, 14675, 14912, circle and lines cf. Briquet 2948; parchment binding fragments (endleaves; repairs to fols. 121 and 132; tabs marking openings of sermons)
Extent: 134 + ii leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155–160 × 90–100 mm.
Foliation: numbered i–lxi, lii–cxv on the recto and 1–61, 52–115 on the verso sides in medieval in red ink (i.e. repeating lii–xli and 52–61), refoliated 1–134 in modern pencil

Collation

112–1112

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

Origin: 1392 ; Germany

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

Texts on penance and confession
(endleaf, fol. 133r–v)
Pope Eutychianus, Exhortatio ad presbyteros

PL 5, col. 163–167B, ‘propter quosdam infideles’ (fol. 133v)

Burchard of Worms, Corrector Burchardi

Fol. 133v, extract: PL 140, col. 950C ‘sacerdos interroget penitentem’– ending imperfectly col. 951C ‘si fecisti’.

(fol. 134r-v lifted pastedown)
Burchard of Worms, Corrector Burchardi

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

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: Apparently three leaves from the same manuscript, cropped but preserving the written area

Layout

1 col., c. 39–46 lines, written above top line.

Hand(s)

Protogothic

Decoration

Red initials.

History

Origin: Early 13th century ; Germany

Additional Information

Record Sources

Typescript description (n.d.) by anonymous Bodleian Library staff, revised (Dec. 2020, March 2021) by Andrew Dunning and Peter Kidd with reference to the manuscript and to secondary literature as cited.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2020-12-08: Andrew Dunning Revised with consultation of original.