Sermons

Description

Title: Sermons
Published / Created: 1377.
Publication Place: Southern Germany or Austria
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (thick with heavy chain lines) of Sermons by Graeculus O.F.M. (early 14th century) and Conradus de Waldhausen Can. Reg. (d. 1369). With additional sermons
Description: In Latin.
Script: 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.
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.
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.
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, Oct. 1984.
Extent: ff. 138 : 225 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Sermons
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Franciscans
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons
Subjects: Catholic Church > Sermons
Franciscans > Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons > Early works to 1800
Germany > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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