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[Sermones anonymi].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church.
- Bible. Gospels--Early works to 1800.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.
- Sermons, Latin.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commentaries
- sermons
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Sermons.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Hans Mehltretter (Luzern), 1956.
- Physical Description:
- 322 leaves : paper ; 195 x 148 (143 x 102) mm bound to 204 x 145 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany], [14--]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-168r: Sermons for the liturgical year, incipit: Ecce rex tuus venit tibi pius.
- 2. f.170r-241v: Sermons, incipit: Hora est iam nos de sompno surgere in hiis vitiis monet...
- 3. f.243r-269v: Three long sermons or tracts on the passion of Christ, incipit: Sanctus Anshelmus longo tempore...
- 4. f.270r-277r: Commentaries/summaries on the 4 gospels, beginning with Matthew, incipit: Liber et numerus...
- 5. f.278r-299r: Sermons, incipit: Honora deum et honorifica sacerdotes...
- 6. f.300r-311r: Benedictum est lignum, per quid sit iustica...
- 7. f.312r-318r: Quotations from the Bible, classics and fathers of the Church.
- 8. f.318r-322v: Five short sermons, incipit: Ad laudem et gloriam omnipotentis dei...
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Foliation: Paper, i (parchment) + i (paper) + 322 + i (parchment); [1-322]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 2 columns of 28-32 lines; ruled in ink.
- Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script, with the main text in a single hand, quotations (f. 312r-318r) in a second hand, and sermons (f. 318r-322v) in a third hand.
- Decoration: Rubricated headings, capitals, initials, and some underlining.
- Binding: Contemporary leather over wooden boards, with brass studs.
- Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Wrapped in a parchment leaf from Section XV, "De quatuor virtutibus," of the Declamationes de Colloquio Simonis cum Jesu of Geoffrey of Auxerre (Patrilogia Latina, Vol. 184, Col. 447C-447D) with decorated initials in red and blue penwork.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 18 (Ms. Latin 84).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 718
- OCLC:
- 212115489
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