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MS. Laud Misc. 199

Summary Catalogue no.: 1513

Sermons; Jean Gerson, De celebratione missae; German, 15th century, middle-second half

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 1*r)
Table of contents
1. (fols. 1r-71v)
Sermons
1.1. (fols. 1r-12r)
Rubric: Sermo de natiuitate Domini nostri Ihesu Christi capitularis
Incipit: Uideamus hoc verbum quod factum est. Scribitur Luce secundo capitulo et in hodierne sollempnis misse secunde ewangelio. Reuerendissimis patres, doctores, magistri, similique totisdem titulis precellentium dignitatum multivarie(?) insigniti
1.2. (fol. 12v)
Rubric: Thema ad sermonem de omnibus sanctis
Incipit: Merces vestra copiosa est in celis. Scribitur Matteus in quinto capitulo et in hodierne festiuitate celeberrime sacro ewangelio. Reuerendi patres, domini doctores, magistri, ceterique simili in Christo Domino sinceriter delecti
1.3. (fol. 13r-20r)
Rubric: Sermo capitularis in natiuitate Domini nostri Ihesu Christi
Incipit: Pastores loquebantur ad inuicem ... Scribitur in hodierne festiuitatis secunde misse ewangelio, originatur vero Luce secundo.
1.4. (fols. 20r-27r)
Rubric: Sermo capitularis de Sancto Spiritu
Incipit: Verbo domini celi firmati sunt ... Scribitur Ps. 33º. Reuerendi patres et domini doctores magistri ceterique in Domino Ihesu (?) Post illam singularem insignemque victoriam

Fols. 27v-36v blank.

1.5. (fols. 37r-45v)
Rubric: In purificatione virginis Marie sermo capitularis
Incipit: Venit in spiritu in templum. Scribitur originaliter Luce secundo, transumptiue vero in ewangelio presentis festituitatis. Reuerendi patres, doctores, magistri, et domini, ceterique in Christo honorandi. Agamus gratias redemptori
1.6. (fols. 46r-53r)
Rubric: In annuncciacione sancte Marie festiuitate sermo capitularis
Incipit: Inuenisti gratiam. Scribitur originaliter Luce primo capitulo, transsumptiue vero in sacro hodierne festituitate ewangelio. Venerabiles et egregii patres, doctores, magistri, ceterique in filio Virginis venerandi
1.7. (fols. 53v-60v)
Rubric: Sermo de passione Domini enim Ihesu Christi
Incipit: Inclinato capite emisit spiritum. Scibitur Ioh. 19 et recitatum est in hodierne dici officio. Reuerendi patres, domini, magistri, ceterique in Ihesu Christo dilecti.
1.8. (fols. 61r-71v)
Rubric: In annuncciacione sancte Marie virginis sermo capitularis
Incipit: Ecce concipies in utero et paries filium. Luc. primo. Et in hodierne solemne festiuitate lectum est ewangelium. Presentam mi(?) patres, doctores egregii, magistri venerandi, ceterique quarumcunque dignitatum tytulus insigniti viri digne recolendi. Inmensa sunt et ineffabilia hodierne sollemnitas sacra

Fols. 71v-72v blank.

2. (fols. 73r-90v)
Henricus de Langenstein, Sermo de proprietate
Rubric: Sermo siue tractatus de conuiui uita ad canonicos regulares et per eas ad omnes regulares contra proprietatem eorum
Incipit: Ecce nos reliquimus omnium et secuti sumus te. Novistis fratres dilectissimi in Domino nostro regulariter congregati quorum sint verba hec iugiter vobis meditanda
Final rubric: Expicit sermo bonus ad Regulares canonicos de vita communi

cf. Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Ms 594, fol. 2r-10r. Bloomfield 1863.

3. (fols. 91r-114r)
Sermon
Rubric: Sermo ad prelatos
Incipit: Diligenter agnosce vultum pectoris tui. Scribitur Proverbiorum 27. Percolendi viri, sicut vult Ysidorus libro tertio de summo bono
4. (fols. 114v-125v)
Jean Gerson, De pollutione nocturna et praeparatione ad missam
Rubric: Tractatus de celebracione misse editus a magistro Johanne Gerson sacre theologie professore
Incipit: Dubitatum est apud me frequenter et presertim diu post susceptum sacerdocium
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus bonus et utilis de celebratione misse editus a Magistro Johanne Gerson sacre theologie professore ex studii parisiensis summe Cancellario etc.
5. (fols. 126r-131v)
Sermon
Rubric: Sermo capitularis valde notabilis et bonus cuiusdam prioris predicatorum Wyenne in assumptione B. M. Virginis
Incipit: In omnibus requiem quesivi etc. Verba hec Eccl. 24 sunt scripta et in epistolarum leccione crastine festiuitatis et officii recitanda, pro eiusdem festiuitatis commendatione qua scilicet benedicta dei genitrix et virgo sempere Maria
Final rubric: Hanc sermonem prior monasterii predicatorum Wyenne fecit de assumptione.

cf. Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M I 398, fols. 151r-154r.

6. (fols. 131v-139v)
Cristannus de Hurben, Sermon on Assumption
Rubric: Sequitur sermo de eodem festo, scilicet assumptionis, M. Cristanni de Hurben
Incipit: Dilectus meus loquitur michi. Surge, propera, amica mea, et veni. Cant secundo. Reverendi patres, doctore, magistri, ceterique diu(ersi) in Christo dilecti. Insignum hodierne festiuitatis leticiam

Fols. 140r-144v blank.

7. (fols. 145r-154v)
Johannes de Werden OM, Sermon
Rubric: De aduentu Domini nostri Ihesu Christi sermo
Incipit: Hodie sancta mater ecclesia incipit sollempniter adventum Domini nostri

cf. Clm 8087, f. 1 (Schneyer, Wegwiser, 291), Clm 9730, f. 1

8. (fols. 155r-184r)
Sermon
Rubric: Secuntur ea quae predicavi de universali et extremo iudicio in Adventu ad sanctum Iacobum in Wyenna, A. D. 1430
Incipit: Congregabo omnes gentes et deducam eas in vallem Iosaphat et disceptabo ibi cum eis. Scribitur Iohelis tertio capitulo, in quibus verbis propheta Iohel loquitur de disceptacione
9. (fols. 184v-196v)
Johannes Geuss, Sermo de ludo choreae et instrumentorum musicalium
Rubric: Sermo de chorea
Incipit: Sumpsit ergo Maria prophetissa tympanum in manu sua, egresse quoque sunt omnes mulieres post eam cum tympanis et choreis quibus precinebat, dicens etc. Scribitur Exodi 15º. Ex istis verbis accipi potest et intelligi
10. (fols. 196v-213r)
Sermon
Rubric: Sequitur sermo de restitutione proximo lezo in rebus, in fama, in corpore, in bonis anime facienda. Et hec materia dividiur in ^octo^ quinque questiones. Item de usuariis. Item de novem alienis peccatis.
Incipit: Festinans descendit et excepit illum gaudens, ubi supra in precedenti sermone visum est
Explicit: quod nobis prestare dignetur Ihesus Cristus Dominus noster. Amen etc.

Fols. 214r-217r blank.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: iii + 215 + iii leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 152–168 × 92–108 mm.
Foliation: i-iii, 1–217 (fol. 1 doubled) in pencil; fols. 1–214 foliated in ink by a contemporary hand

Layout

Written in 33–36 long lines.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Binding

Rebound in calf, 19th century

History

Origin: 15th century, middle or second half ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

Nuremberg, Benedictine abbey of St Giles: ownership inscriptions: "Iste liber pertinet ad monasterium sancti Egidi in Nuremberg" (fol. 1*r, 1r) and on a glued on strip (fol. 1*v).

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1636.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen (September 2020) from the Quarto Catalogue (with additional description of ex libris on fol. 1*r-v, contents and physical description):
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, provenance, acquisition]

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2020-09-30: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project.