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SERMONES DE TEMPORE, attributed to Thomas de Lisle, O.P. (d.1361), in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.
[Italy, 14th century]
168 x 120mm. 173 leaves (lacking one leaf and one or more quires at the beginning and one quire at the end; all with loss of text), collation: 1-412, 58, 612, 79 (of 10, lacking vi), 8-1512, horizontal catchwords in lower right corner on last versos, leaves in the first half of each quire signed on the recto in the center of the lower margin with letters of the alphabet beginning each time with a, 34 lines, double columns, ruled in lead, justification: 118 x 85mm, written in pale brown ink in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, each sermon with a two-line Lombard initial in red or blue flourished in mauve or red, paragraph signs alternately in red and blue, headlines in red, neat marginal corrections or additions in a contemporary hand, some contemporary cancellations and corrections in text, instructions for the rubricator in the extreme lower margin (the first and last leaves torn and mended with tape, the margin of f.73 partially trimmed away, faint waterstains in margins throughout, margins of the last leaves stained and frayed). Modern case binding of pasteboard covered with a portion of a leaf cut from a choir book on vellum (binding nearly detached from textblock).
PROVENANCE:
Early notes in Italian, signed B. Beltrandus, S. Martignonus, F. Zappola (f.73v, sermon LXI). - Fratrum verecundorum ... Bologna MCCCXX (lower margin, f. 170v, sermon CXXI; probably in the hand of the notes on f.73v, retraced by the same hand that wrote the note on f.95). - Quest'opera imparaggiabile fin'hora con maggiore profitto Joannes Guttemberg seduto anchegli un mare di ... stampo quest'opera ogni particolorita. Alexander VI. Roma. 1500 (lower margin, f.95, sermon LXX) - Frh. Lud. Andas. Machiavellus (f.1v). - Engraving of a coin with the Greek inscription NEOPOLITON (pasted to f.1).
TEXT:
This collection of sermons for the Sundays of the church year circulated in the later Middle Ages under the title Sermones Britonis. J.B. Schneyer, in Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, attributes it to the Englishman Thomas of Lisle, a Dominican friar of Winchester from 1322, who became bishop of Ely in 1345. Others, including J. Ruysschaert in his catalogue description of the manuscript Vat.lat.11524, identify the author as Guibert of Tournai, O.F.M. (ca. 1210-1285). Schneyer lists 31 manuscripts, all in European libraries.
[Italy, 14th century]
168 x 120mm. 173 leaves (lacking one leaf and one or more quires at the beginning and one quire at the end; all with loss of text), collation: 1-412, 58, 612, 79 (of 10, lacking vi), 8-1512, horizontal catchwords in lower right corner on last versos, leaves in the first half of each quire signed on the recto in the center of the lower margin with letters of the alphabet beginning each time with a, 34 lines, double columns, ruled in lead, justification: 118 x 85mm, written in pale brown ink in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, each sermon with a two-line Lombard initial in red or blue flourished in mauve or red, paragraph signs alternately in red and blue, headlines in red, neat marginal corrections or additions in a contemporary hand, some contemporary cancellations and corrections in text, instructions for the rubricator in the extreme lower margin (the first and last leaves torn and mended with tape, the margin of f.73 partially trimmed away, faint waterstains in margins throughout, margins of the last leaves stained and frayed). Modern case binding of pasteboard covered with a portion of a leaf cut from a choir book on vellum (binding nearly detached from textblock).
PROVENANCE:
Early notes in Italian, signed B. Beltrandus, S. Martignonus, F. Zappola (f.73v, sermon LXI). - Fratrum verecundorum ... Bologna MCCCXX (lower margin, f. 170v, sermon CXXI; probably in the hand of the notes on f.73v, retraced by the same hand that wrote the note on f.95). - Quest'opera imparaggiabile fin'hora con maggiore profitto Joannes Guttemberg seduto anchegli un mare di ... stampo quest'opera ogni particolorita. Alexander VI. Roma. 1500 (lower margin, f.95, sermon LXX) - Frh. Lud. Andas. Machiavellus (f.1v). - Engraving of a coin with the Greek inscription NEOPOLITON (pasted to f.1).
TEXT:
This collection of sermons for the Sundays of the church year circulated in the later Middle Ages under the title Sermones Britonis. J.B. Schneyer, in Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, attributes it to the Englishman Thomas of Lisle, a Dominican friar of Winchester from 1322, who became bishop of Ely in 1345. Others, including J. Ruysschaert in his catalogue description of the manuscript Vat.lat.11524, identify the author as Guibert of Tournai, O.F.M. (ca. 1210-1285). Schneyer lists 31 manuscripts, all in European libraries.