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MS. Lyell 6

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(fols. 3r-217r)
John Halgrin of Abbeville, Sermones de tempore

Fol. 3-6: list of the sermons with summaries of contents. Fol. 6 is blank.

Rubric: (fol. 7) Incipit tractatus magistri Iohannis de Abbevile [sic] super epistolas et evangelia cuiuslibet dominice tocius anni
Incipit: Cum sacrosancta mater ecclesia
Explicit: (fol. 217) dominum laudans.

Fol. 217 was originally blank. For lists of further MSS. see P. Glorieux, Rep. 1, no. 113ª, p. 272; J. B. Schneyer, 'Einige Sermoneshandschriften aus der früheren Benediktinerbibliothek des Mont Saint-Michel', Sacris Erudiri, 17 (1966), 151–4.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -tur homo
Form: codex
Support: parchment
217 leaves (fol. i-ii, 1-2, are flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 230 mm.
Dimensions (written): 243 × 154 mm.

Collation

1 original (?) flyleaf (fol. 2), 1(4), 2(10)-21(10), 1 leaf; some traces of catchwords.

Layout

2 cols. of 42 lines ruled in crayon; pricked for ruling in both inner and outer margins; writing above top line

Decoration

On fol. 7, foliage initial in red, blue, and green on a square yellow-brown background outlined in green.

Other initials: red flourished in blue or blue in red. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 311)

Added marginal sketches, (a) in pencil: fol. 43, 131v, foliage; fol. 197-198v, interlacing; fol. 206, 207, figures of saints; (b) with stylus: fol. 117-118, hands, and heads of knights(?).

Additions:

There are additions: (fol. 184v) in crayon, 13th cent., verses beg.: Ecce crucis longum latum sublime profundum. 4 lines. Walther, Initia, no. 5072. Also in MSS. Ashm. 1280, 13th cent., fol. 18v; Lat. theol. e. 39, 13th cent., fol. 14 and B.M. Royal 6 B. XI, 14th cent., fol. 61

On fol. 1, flyleaf added later, in a 15th-cent. hand, are notes to facilitate the use of the Bible, partly erased, beg.: Hic si quis, cui inest parum sapere, inspexerit, facile modum huius libri legendi cognoscere licebit, ends: Iam igitur asculta, followed by 'Nomina librorum' and a list, from Genesis to I-IV Kings.

Binding

19th-cent. binding in white parchment with foliage ornament imprinted in black and blue, bearing the ticket of E. Parry, Bookseller and Stationer, Bridge Street Row, Chester.

History

Origin: 13th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol. 217v (erased) are the following notes: 'Thomas Thurlyth' (15th cent.?), twice; 'Iohannes Rocheste (?)' (15th cent.)

St Osyth, Essex, Augustinian abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Osyth: 'Iste liber pertinet Monasterio Sancte Osythe Virginis et Martyris', and the first six words repeated (fol. 217v, 15th-16th cent.): Ker, Med. Lib.2, p. 170. (MLGB3)

Later in the Mostyn Library: on fol. 2 armorial bookplate with 'Thomas Mostyn 1744 no. 24' (i.e. the 4th Baronet) written on it: on the front pastedown is the Gloddaeth Library ticket and 'Nº 92', the number of the MS. in Hist. MSS. Comm., 4th report, 1874, App., p. 350.

Lot 120 in Mostyn Sale, Sotheby's 13 July 1920.

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948: bought in May 1942 from Quaritch, see their Catalogue of Illuminated and other MSS., 1931, no. 64, and Cat. 566 (1939), no. 464.

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Record Sources

A. C. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)
Catalogue, p. 13
Catalogue, p. 14

Bibliography

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-09: Add all information from printed catalogue.

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