Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Iohannes Herolt OP (d. c. 1468), Sermones de tempore, incomplete: from the first Sunday of Advent till the fourth Sunday after Easter.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Parchment over light wooden boards; leather spine with three raised bands; marks of two clasps. At the top of the rear board there is an excavation for the staple to which a chain was attached. On the spine parchment label with the handwritten title (19th century?) “JOHANNES HEROLT / Sermones Discipuli / De Tempore / saec. XV. 1436.” At the top of the rear cover close to the spine a printed paper label containing space for a shelfmark covering a large capital “W”; the handwritten shelfmark is “5867”., Leaves are badly waterstained in the outer lower corner in the second half of the manuscript., Red stroking of majuscules and underlining, red plain generally 3-line initials., and Script: Copied probably by one scribe writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria. When the first letter on a page is a majuscule it is as a rule made larger, with some calligraphic development.
Subject (Name):
Dominicans and Herolt, Johann
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library