Manuscript on paper of Jacobus de Voragine, O.P. (ca. 1230-1298), Sermones Quadragesimales. Also contains two collections of excerpts from various sermons, with lemmata; and Pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury, Planctus de passione Domini
Description:
Script: The main body of the manuscript (artt. 2-5) is copied by various hands in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens. Art. 1 is in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda); and art. 6 is in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria., Decoration: Limited; art. 1 is undecorated; artt. 2-6 contain red headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks, and 2-line plain initials. There are three identical 15th century ownership inscriptions of the Salvatorberg Charterhouse, belonging to the Carthusians in Erfurt, Germany., Binding: Original undecorated red pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs. There are remnants of two leather straps attached to the rear that would clasp to the front board by (now lost) pins. Five bosses on each cover., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298., Catholic Church, Dominicans., and Carthusians.
Manuscript on paper of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: several bull's heads including Piccard Ochsenkopf V.636 and similar in design to V.305-13., Script: Written in hybrida script, perhaps by a single scribe., Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line. Paragraph marks, initial strokes and underlining in red; rubrics added sporadically., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Sewn on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covers lined with parchment documents; text side pasted down and illegible. Covered in white tawed skin with two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Remains of label with title on spine; traces of inscription on upper board. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Herolt, Johann.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
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.
Manuscript on paper of Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), 1) Sermones de diversis, nos. 1-32 and 40-42. 2) In psalmum XC sermones XVII. 3) Super "Missus est" homiliae (In laudibus Virginis matris).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Two hands writing careful Gothic scripts: A (ff. 3r-71v) Cursiva Libraria; B (ff. 72r-136r) Hybrida Libraria., Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Red stroking of majuscules. Red plain initials (2-3 lines; 4 lines f. 3r, 7 lines f. 73r); red flourished initials with black penwork (9 lines, f. 72r, 7 lines and of a less careful execution f. 116v). All initials have guide letters in the margin., Most pages slightly damaged by the acid ink. Water stains at the bottom of the outer margins of the leaves in the final quires., and Binding: Original brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs; plaited leather headbands; spine missing. The covers are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of triple fillets and the following stamps: a lare and a small lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis; a large and a small rozette; a circular Pascal Lamb; a rectangular stamp with inscription "MARIA". Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the front board.
