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., and Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria with many abbreviations, especially in the Biblical quotations.
Subject (Topic):
Lenten sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library