Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sermons

Authors

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 (http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872)
• Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage (http://viaf.org/viaf/100179090)

Other related names

• Kartause Sankt Barbara (Cologne, Allemagne), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/195880087)
• Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/34580474)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/73979081/)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 23
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1583570
• deRicci: 115

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a compilation of sermons, almost all by Augustine, copied in Germany in the first half of the fifteenth century. The first section of the volume is a group of sermons by Augustine that concludes with Cyprian's De mortalitate (attributed to Augustine in its rubric, with a correction by a somewhat later reader, fol. 72r). The second section of the volume is a second group of sixty-four sermons by Augustine, numbered and listed in a table of contents (fol. 74r-74v), on the gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John. These are followed by a longer work on the Sermon on the Mount (fol. 183v), a homily attributed to Bede (fol. 213v), and two more sermons by Augustine. Textual corrections by the scribe appear in the margins. Parchment tabs with decorative knots along the fore edge of the book mark the beginning of the first group of sermons; the beginning of the second group of sermons; the twenty-fourth sermon in the second group, on "Qui vos spernit me spernit"; the thirty-eighth sermon in the second group, on "In principium erat verbum" and against the Arian heresy; the work on the Sermon on the Mount; and possibly the homily attributed to Bede. Each of these, except the last, is also marked with a more elaborate decorated initial.

Notes

• Spine has become detached from text block and text block is split; quire 11 (fols. 82-89) is almost detached
   
• The sermon numbers in the table of contents are from the Patrologia Latina; they do not appear in the manuscript
   

Extent

217; 295 x 210 mm bound to 306 x 220 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-8 (8), 9 (9, +9), 10-27 (8)

Signatures

Quires 1-9 signed a-i on the first four leaves of each quire, for example a1-a4; quires 10-26 signed somewhat more erratically, a-c, dd, d-h, j, k-q, on the first four leaves of each quire, but many of these signatures have been trimmed away

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, usually lower right last verso, although several have been trimmed partly or completely

Binding

Original calf over wooden boards; blind stamped with diagonal lines; remains of clasps; labels on the spine with the numbers 48 and 89 and possibly the letter G

Layout

Two columns of forty-one lines; frame-ruled in lead; written area: 210 x 140 mm

Decoration

Four six-line puzzle initials in red and blue, flourished with red, blue, or purple penwork (fols. 1r, 75r, 119r, 183v); one five-line initial in red flourished with blue and purple penwork (fol. 136r); three- to five-line initials alternating between red and blue throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Carthusian monastery of Saint Barbara at Cologne (catalogue entry from the 1910 sale of the Manuscript of Thomas Phillipps pasted inside the front and back covers)?; Leander van Ess (sold 1824); Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 474 (manuscript number written in ink, fol. 1r; sold 1910) to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate inside front cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W.J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2045, no. 115.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 29, no. 23.

Keywords

• Collection of Sermons
• Germany
• Puzzle initial
• 15th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sermon 384; incipit: Sancta et divina eloquia, fr[atr]es uigiter ymo cotidie nob[is] salub[ri]ter recita[n]t[ur] ut a[n]i[ma]e n[ost]re pasca[n]tur [fol. 1r]
• fol. 1v — Sermon 131
• fol. 3v — Sermon 163
• fol. 6r — Sermon 153
• fol. 9r — Sermon 154
• fol. 12r — Sermon 155
• fol. 15v — Sermon 165
• fol. 17v — Sermon 174
• fol. 19v — Sermon 175
• fol. 21v — Sermon 176
• fol. 23r — Sermon 26
• fol. 25v — Sermon 30
• fol. 27v — Sermon 156
• fol. 31r — Sermon 294
• fol. 36r — Sermon 169
• fol. 40v — Sermon 158
• fol. 42v — Sermon 159
• fol. 44v — Sermon 161
• fol. 48r — Sermon 178
• fol. 50v — Sermon 27
• fol. 52r — De diversis questionibus LXXXIII, 1.71
• fol. 53v — Sermon 164
• fol. 56r — Sermon 157
• fol. 57v — Sermon 167
• fol. 58r — Sermon 100
• fol. 59r — Sermon 99
• fol. 60v — Sermon 43
• fol. 62r — Sermon 180
• fol. 65r — Sermon 181
• fol. 66v — Sermon 182
• fol. 68v — Sermon 183
• fol. 70v — Sermon 172
• fol. 71r — Sermon 173
• fol. 72r — De mortalitate, Cyprian; incipit: Freque[n]t[er] fr[atr]es k[arissi]mi ac manifeste de dei dignatione p[re]ceptu[m] nob[is] e[st] ... [fol. 72r]; explicit: Qui cu[m] p[at]re [et] sp[irit]u s[an]c[t]o vivit [et] regnat deus p[er] o[mn]ia s[e]c[u]lor[um] s[e]c[u]la amen [fol. 73r]
• fol. 74r — Sermons on Matthew, Luke, and John; Table of contents
• fol. 75r — Sermon 109
• fol. 76r — Sermon 54
• fol. 77r — Sermon 268
• fol. 77v — Sermon 55
• fol. 78v — Sermon 61
• fol. 81r — Sermon 62
• fol. 84v — Sermon 100
• fol. 85v — Sermon 67
• fol. 87v — Sermon 70
• fol. 88v — Sermon 69
• fol. 89r — Sermon 71
• fol. 97v — Sermon 72
• fol. 98v — Sermon 76
• fol. 100r — Sermon 72
• fol. 100v — Sermon 83
• fol. 102v — Sermon 82
• fol. 105v — Sermon 84
• fol. 106r — Sermon 88
• fol. 112r — Sermon 82
• fol. 112v — Sermon 75
• fol. 114r — Sermon 97
• fol. 115r — De diversis questionibus LXXXIII 1.59
• fol. 116v — Sermon 93
• fol. 119r — Sermon 102
• fol. 120r — Sermon 367
• fol. 120v — Sermon 103
• fol. 121v — Sermon 104
• fol. 122v — Sermon 84
• fol. 123v — Sermon 105
• fol. 126v — Sermon 106
• fol. 127r — Sermon 110
• fol. 129r — Sermon 112
• fol. 131r — Ennarationes in psalmos, in psalmum 70
• fol. 132r — Sermon 113
• fol. 133v — Sermon 115
• fol. 135r — Sermon 171
• fol. 136r — Sermon 117
• fol. 140v — Sermon 108
• fol. 142r — Sermon 122
• fol. 143v — Sermon 123
• fol. 144v — Sermon 124
• fol. 145r — Sermon 128
• fol. 148v — Sermon 98
• fol. 150r — Sermon 129
• fol. 152r — Sermon 132
• fol. 153r — In Johannis evangelium tractatus CXXIV
• fol. 155r — Sermon 134
• fol. 156v — Sermon 137
• fol. 160r — Sermon 138
• fol. 162v — Sermon 139
• fol. 163v — Sermon 96
• fol. 164v — Sermon 354
• fol. 166v — Sermon 142
• fol. 169r — Sermon 97
• fol. 169v — Sermon 246
• fol. 171r — Sermon 87
• fol. 174v — Sermon 143
• fol. 175v — Sermon 144
• fol. 176v — Sermon 146
• fol. 177r — Sermon 52
• fol. 180v — Sermon 127
• fol. 183v — De sermone Domini in monte
• fol. 213v — Omel[ia] ven[erabilis] Bede p[res]b[yte]ri
• fol. 215r — Sermon 231
• fol. 216r — Sermon 237

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner's bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Inside front cover — Inserted catalog entry
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 75r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 76r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 77r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 77v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 78v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 85v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 119r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 136r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 168r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 183v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 198v — Decorated initial M
• Inside back cover — Inserted catalog entry