Sermones quadragesimales

Description

Title: Sermones quadragesimales
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: Italy (Northern Italy?),
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) containing a collection of sermons with abundant annotations and additions by various hands, which on some pages may cover all four margins. With a Commentary on the Passion and Events of sacred history believed to have occurred or to occur in the future on a Friday.
Description: Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 2- or 3-line red and blue plain or slightly flourished initials, with guide letters.
Binding: Remnants of an early binding: heavy bevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten, formerly covered with a fragment of a parchment manuscript; sewn on three split leather thongs. Endleaves from a missal on parchment (Italy, 14th century), erased.
Many irregular lower edges and lower outer corners. A repair of a tear on f. 80 made before writing.
Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria with many abbreviations, especially in the Biblical quotations.
Extent: ff. ii + 86 : parchment ; 270 x 195 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics
Material: parchment
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Lenten sermons
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Sermones Quadragesimales. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9884310
Object ID (OID): 11007474
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS899.pdf