Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sermons

Authors

• John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407
• John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407
• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379

Other related names

• Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, recipient
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 712
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615193
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487515

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of sermons and other works of St. John Chrysostom, plus a copy of a letter from St. Basil to St. Gregory (f. 1r-3v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Description of contents of volume in Latin bound in front.
   

Extent

150 leaves : 275 x 200 (188 x 104) mm. bound to 285 x 203 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (19th-century paper) + 150 + ii (19th-century paper); [1-150] modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century leather with gold stamped coat of arms with the motto "Esse quam videri" on upper and lower covers.

Layout

Written in 39 long lines; ruled in ink and lead.

Decoration

Alternating red and blue used for initials and paragraph markers.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by 2 different hands (f. 1r-139v, 139v-149v).

Provenance

• Sold by Thomas Thorpe in 1836 (no. 58) to Sir Thomas Phillipps; Phillipps ms. 9471.
   
• Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines
• Orthodox Eastern Church--Doctrines
• Spirituality--Catholic Church
• Spirituality--Eastern
• God--Knowableness--Sermons
• Eunomianism--Sermons
• Jews--Early works to 1800
• Judaism--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800
• Judaism--Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800
• Christianity and other religions--Judaism--Early works to 1800
• Asceticism--Early works to 1800
• Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Collection of Sermons
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Bassilii ep[isto]la Gregorum theologum, f. 1r
• fol. 4r — Sermo Sancti Iohanis Chrisostomi contra Iudeos feliciter [sermones sex], f. 4r
• fol. 57r — Adverssus Anomoeos q[uod] D[ominus] inco[m]prehenssibilis sit [sermones quinque], f. 57r
• fol. 89v — Ad Stagirium Arrepticium monacum [libri tres], f. 89v
• fol. 139v — Paradoxa Ioannis Chrisostomi : neminem ledi nisi a se ip[s]o, f. 139v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner note, Inside front cover