MS. Lat. th. f. 24
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no full description available
Contents
Sermons on the Gospels for the Church year.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
i (paper) + 275 + i (paper)
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 105 × 62 mm.
Foliation: Modern pencil, i-iii, 1–274
Collation
I2 (original flyleaves) (fol. i-ii) | II10–1 (3rd leaf missing, after fol. 2) (fol. 1–9), III-XXVIII10 (fol. 10–269), XXIX2 (fol. 270–271) | XXX2 (original flyleaves) (fol. 272–273)
Layout
25 lines, in 1 column
Hand(s)
Fine rounded gothic
Decoration
Plain red initials.
Illuminated initial cut out on fol. 1r leaving part of the border, with a butterfly.
Binding
Sewn on three thongs and bound in plain parchment over thin boards; with traces of two pairs of green or yellow silk ties at the fore-edge; the spine inscribed '1430' at the top, and '[Au?]g serm[...] Evangeliorum', from top to bottom, in large letters
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Swann Gallery, New York, 11 Oct. 1979, lot 255, bought by Quaritch for the Bodleian.
Record Sources
Draft description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.