MS. Lyell 55
Sermons
Contents
Language(s): Latin
PL 56, col. 1151–4.
Serm. App. 38, PL 39 col. 1821–2; Caesarius, Serm. 122, ed. G. Morin in C.C. 103–4, pp. 509–11. No. 35 in the collection of sermons on the Old Testament in MS. Bodl. 199, henceforth referred to as O; see Morin, loc. cit., pp. lix–lxii.
Serm. App. 39, PL 39 col. 1822–3; Caesarius, Serm. 123, C.C. 103, pp. 512–14. No. 36 in O.
Serm. App. 40, PL 39 col. 1823–6; Caesarius, Serm. 124, C.C. 103, pp. 514–18. No. 37 in O.
Serm. App. 41, PL 39 col. 1826–7; Caesarius, Serm. 127, C.C. 103, pp. 523–6. No. 39 in O.
Serm. App. 42, PL 39 col. 1827–30; Caesarius, Serm. 128, C.C. 103, pp. 526–30. No. 38 in O.
Serai. App. 270, PL 39 col. 2247–503; Caesarius, Serm. 182, C.C. 104, pp. 739–43.
Serm. App. 43, PL 39 col. 1830–2. No. 41 in O.
Serm. App. 44, PL 39 col. 1832–4; Caesarius, Serm. 129, C.C. 103, pp. 531–4. No. 40 in O.
Serm. App. 45, PL 39 col. 1834–6; Caesarius, Serm. 130, C.C. 103, pp. 535–7 1. 31.
Serm. App. 46, PL 39 col. 1836–7. No. 42 in O.
Augustine, Serm. 36, PL 38 col. 215–21, ed. Lambot in C.C. 41, 434–43.
Bede, parts of Expos, in Parab. Salomonis, Lib. 1 cap. 1 and iii, PL 91 col. 942C5–943A11, adiungitur; 949B4, Fili mi–951B14, tenemus.
Augustine, Serm. 348, PL 39 col. 1526–9 1. 38
Bede, Expos, in Parab. Salomonis, parts of Lib. I cap. iii–iv, PL 91 col. 951D4–955A14.
Pr. Io. Chrys. Opera, Basle, 1547, v, col. 927–9.
Bede, Expos. in Parab. Salomonis, parts of Lib. 11 cap. xv–xvi, PL 91 col. 984D9–988A9.
Ps.-Aug., Serm. App. 297, PL 39 col. 2313–15; Rabanus Maurus, Hom. de Festis 54, PL 110 col. 99–101.
Serm. App. 52, PL 39 col. 1844–5; Caesarius, Serm. 132, C.C. 103, pp. 542–5. No. 43 (44) in O.
Serm. App. 50, PL 39 col. 1841–2. No. 45 (46) in O.
Serm. App. 51, PL 39 col. 1842–4; Caesarius, Serm. 131, C.C. 103, pp. 539–41. No. 44 (45) in O.
Bede, parts of Interp. in librum Tobiae, PL 91 col. 923–8A8, haereticis (MS. erraticis); 930A13, ingressus–932D12, in gentibus; 933B8, Dimisit–934D4, exspectamus; 935B12 Rediturus–936A6, petatis.
Ps.-Aug., Serm. App. 47, PL 39 col. 1838–9. No. 48 (49) in O.
Serm. App. 48, PL 39 col. 1839–40. No. 49 (50) in O.
Serm. App. 49, PL 39 col. 1840–1. No. 50 (51) in O.
Rabanus Maurus, parts of Expos, in librum Esther, cap. IV and v–xi, PL 109 col. 649B6-C12; 650D12–661A1; 661A4, nisi quod–D4.
Rabanus Maurus, Comm, in I Macc., cap. III v. 38-IV v. 24, PL 109 col. 1151D13–1157B7.
Rabanus Maurus, Comm, in I Macc. cap. iv v. 28–48, PL 109 col. 1157D2–1160C12.
Serm. App. 71, PL 39 col. 1880–4.
Leo I, Serm. 91, PL 54 col. 450–3.
Leo I, Serm. 92, PL 54 col. 453–6.
Leo I, Serm. 94, PL 54 col. 458–60A14
Rabanus Maurus, Comm, in I Macc., cap. v v. 1–28, PL 109 col. 1163–7C11.
Augustine, Serm. 85, PL 38 col. 520–3.
Rabanus Maurus, Comm, in I Macc., cap. v v. 37–54, PL 109 col. 1168 B4–1171C7.
Augustine, Serm. 48, PL 38 col. 316–20 1. 8; pr. Lambot, C.C. 41, pp. 605–11. He uses our MS.
Serm. App. 59, PL 39 col. 1855–6; No. 46 (47) in O.
Serm. App. 60, PL 39 col. 1857–8. No. 47 (48) in O.
Augustine, Serm. 38, PL 38 col. 235–41; pr. Lambot, C.C. 41, pp. 476–87.
Serm. App. 280, PL 39 col. 2274–6; Rabanus Maurus, Hom. de Festis, 41, PL 110 col. 76–8.
PL 110.83-5; = Ps.-Aug., Serm. App. 108, PL 39 col. 1959–61.
Ps.-Aug., Serm. App. 291, PL 39 col. 2296–7; Rabanus Maurus, Hom. de Festis 47, PL 110 col. 87–8.
Ps.-Aug. Serm. App. 302, PL 39 col. 2323–4; Rabanus Maurus, Hom. de Festis 48, PL 110 col. 88–90.
Ps.-Aug., Serm. App. 98, PL 39 col. 1932–4; Rabanus Maurus, Hom. de Festis 52, PL 110 col. 95–7.
Rabanus Maurus, Hom. de Festis 51, PL 110 col. 93–5.
Ps.-Aug., Serm. App. 290, PL 39 col. 2294–6; Rabanus Maurus, Hom. de Festis 50, PL 110 col. 92–3.
Augustine, Serm. 127 Mai, ed. Morin, Misc. Agostiniana 1 (1930), 368–70.
Also found, with same ending, but attributed to St. Jerome, in MS. Vienna 994, 9th cent., from Salzburg Cathedral, fol. 99; see Lambot in Rev. Bén. 45 (1933), 97, and, for provenance and date, H. J. Hermann, Die ilium. Hss. der Nat. bibl. Wien I (Beschr. Verzeichnis der illum. Hss. in Oesterreich viii), Leipzig, 1923, pp. 173–4, no. 64.
A patchwork of fragments also found in MS. Vienna 994 cit., fol. 100v:
Augustine, part of Serm. 302, § iv–v, PL 38 col. 1387 11. 7–12; ed. Lambot, Stromata Patristica et Mediev. 1 (1950), 102, 1. 18–20.
Slightly fuller at beginning and end than the fragment from MS. Vienna 994 attributed by Lambot to St. Augustine and pr. by him in Rev. Bén. 51 (1939), 25–7.
Augustine, part of Serm. 302, § v–viii, PL 38 col. 1387 1. 12–1388 1. 44; pr. Lambot, Stromata cit. 1, p. 102 1. 20–104 l. 18.
Version of Serm. App. 310, PL 39 col. 2340–2. The same version is in MSS. Vienna 994 cit., fol. 105, and Vat. Reg. Lat. 500, fol. 155v.
Augustine, Serm. 84, PL 38 col. 519–20. In MS. Vienna 994 cit., fol. 122. Ends fol. 115 (pastedown).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled space 225 × 135 mm. : 30 long lines ruled with a hard point
Decoration
Titles in red capitals.
There are a number of early marginal scribbles, many of them done with a stylus.
The MS. has a series of fifty-one fine initials, mostly of the vinescroll type, akin in style to those of the 12th-cent. Salzburg school. They are outlined in mauve ink, except for the last four, which are in brown ink, and occasionally shaded in green, with solid backgrounds of blue, green, and pink.
The following have figures: fol. 29v, a naked boy, bird and monster heads; fol. 55v, a man, bird and dog; fol. 67, naked boy and monster; fol. 77v, man and monster; fol. 79, man and monster; fol. 88v, naked man and bear; fol. 91, naked man; fol. 93v, man and monster; fol. 97v, man; fol. 99v, young man standing holding two monsters; fol. 102v, bearded man seated between two monsters; fol. 103v, man and monster; fol. 106v, naked green man. Others have animals only: birds (fol. 22, 43, 70), monsters or monster heads (fol. 13, 27, 36, 44, 46, 54v, 74v, 92), a bear (fol. 105r). Pächt and Alexander i. 73, pl. VI, (fol. 77v).
Binding
Monastic binding of original wooden boards covered in rough white leather; original sewing; two clasps on modern straps (1 missing); parchment title (15th cent.?) on front cover: ‘Sermones dominicales post Penthecosten b. Augustini et aliorum sanctorum doctorum’; remains of a later title on spine.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly in the library of the Benedictine abbey of Lambach in Austria, where it was MS. xxiv: the shelfmark ‘M. memb. xxiv’ (early 19th cent.) is on the spine, where there is also an earlier label: ‘MS. 21’. On the front cover is the number ‘D. 6’ in red (parchment label, 15th cent.?) and on fol. 1 ‘24’ (18th–19th cent.). Not in the library catalogue of c. 1210 but listed in later inventories; see K. Holter, ‘Zwei Bibliotheksverzeichnisse des 13. Jh.’, M.I.Ö.G. 64 (1956), 275, no. 141; idem, ‘Stift Lambach. Die Hss. und Inkunabeln’, Österreichische Kunsttopographie xxxiv, ii (1959), 236, Hg. 283.
Bought by Lyell in May 1940 from Maggs Bros.: see their Cat. 542 (1930), no. 37, and pl. (fol. 43r) and Cat. 687 (1940), no. 216, pl. 22 (fol. 103v) and cover (fol. 106v). Exh., Gladbacher Handschriften-Ausstellung, Mönchengladbach, April–May 1964, no. 32.
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
MS. Lyell 55 - pastedown
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The front pastedown is a leaf from a 12th-cent. monastic Antiphoner (?) with a portion of matins for the Innocents, responsories only.
Physical Description
Layout
18 lines
Adiastematic half-rhythmical neums
History
Additional Information
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-09-18: art 42: noted as Rabanus Maurus, as well as Ps.-Augustine; ex inf. Christoph Galle.