Sermons

Description

Title: Sermons
Published / Created: 1377
Publication Place: Southern Germany or Austria
Description: Binding: Damaged original limp parchment with flap, made from several pieces of parchment sewn together by means of parchment strips. The sewing runs through the spine and is gathered in decorative patterns over two strips of heavy leather.
Collection of Count Wolfgang Engelberg von Auersperg. The paper label on the spine, with the number 186, is typical of this library. Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, Oct. 1984.
Headings, heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red applied very irregularly and totally missing on ff. 26v-29v, 30v-118v, 119v-130v and 135v-138v. Some 2- or 3-line initials of coarse execution, with or without guide-letters; most initials are not executed.
Manuscript on paper of sermons by Graeculus OFM (early 14th century) and Conradus de Waldhausen Can. Reg. (d. 1369). With additional sermons. Thick paper with heavy chain lines. Copied by various hands all writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens. Scribes in quires I-V often make remarkable extensions to majuscules or ascenders on the first line, decorated with foliage or grotesque heads.
Sermons. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Extent: ff. 138 : paper ; 225 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Access: Public
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Orbis Record: 9615820
Object ID (OID): 9998929
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms649.htm