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Title

Sermones dominicales

Authors

• Felton, John

Other related names

• Ingilby, William Henry, Sir, 1874-1952, former owner
• Lyell, James P. R. b. 1871, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 680
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615132
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487466

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Place

Oxford?, England

Summary

57 sermons for Sundays and feast days, arranged according to the liturgical calendar, with an alphabetical subject index (f. 182r-188r); Sermon, "De cruce," (f. 189r-v) in a second hand, explicit: Gregorius libro primo et quarto de pharetra, with a second table of contents (f. 190r-v). Also includes Middle English poem of 16 lines, beginning, "I ham as I ham and so will I be..." added in a later hand (f. iii recto).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Latin, with a poem in Middle English.
   
• Title, attribution, and date supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit: Penuria studentium in materia morali paupertasque juvenum qui copia privantur librorum...
   
• Felton's sermons exist in the following mss., Royal Ms. 8 BXII, Harleianen Mss. 537, 1327, 4238, Oxford, University College LXV, New College CCCV.
   

Extent

194 leaves : 228 x 160 (154 x 100) mm. bound to 240 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, 194; [iv], [1-190]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern leather.

Layout

Written in 36 long lines; ruled in ink; prickings visible.

Decoration

3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation and extensive rubrication throughout.

Script

Written in a semi-cursive Gothic script in a single hand, except for f. 189r-190v in a second hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by James P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Sir William Henry Ingilby at auction at Sotheby's, 21 Oct. 1920, lot 153, to Maggs Bros.; appears in Maggs catalog 404 (1921), lot 15.
   
• Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 61.
   
• Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800
• Sermons, Latin
• English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500

Genres

• Codices
• Sermons
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Collection of Sermons
• Literature -- Poetry
• Christian
• England

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 181r — Index, f. 182r
• fol. 188r — Sermon, f. 189r
• fol. 189r — Table of contents, f. 190r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 25r — Manicule, f. 26r
• fol. 49r — Manicule, f. 50r
• fol. 56v — Manicule, f. 57v
• fol. 62v — Manicule, f. 63v
• fol. 67r — Manicule, f. 68r
• fol. 70r — Manicule, f. 71r
• fol. 124v — Manicule, f. 125v
• fol. 125r — Manicule, f. 126r