Manuscript on paper of the Sermones de sanctis of Conradus de Brundelsheim, O. Cist. (Soccus, d. 1321); 119 numbered sermons; and includes marginal notes, table of feasts to which the sermons of artt. 1 and 7 relate, table of themes of the sermons in art. 1, table of contents of artt. 2-7, detailed index of subjects
Description:
In Latin., Script: Main text, art. 1, copied by scribe Konrad Hildebrand (Conradus Hilprandi) in a highly abbreviated Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, with the first line of each sermon in large, clumsily executed Northern Gothica Textualis. The remainder of the manuscript copied at least partly by other hands in the same kind of script., Decoration: Red stroking of majuscules and punctuation, red headings, paragraph marks and underlining up to f. 282r. C. 4-line red initials, plain or with interior reserved shapes or/and with penwork in the same colour or in green., and Binding: brown leather over heavy rounded wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. Both covers blind-tooled with a frame and diagonal lines in double fillets. On each cover there are five brass bosses. There were originally two leather straps, fixed to the rear board over two brass pins. An iron staple, attached to a four-link iron chain ending in a ring, is fixed to the top of the rear board. On the front board, the 15th century shelfmark “h” is written in black ink.
