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Title

Sermones a cena Domini usque ad vigiliam Paschae

Authors

• Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, ca. 1303-1373

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1203
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943226263503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232610158
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4322626

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1420

Place

Germany

Summary

Begins with a quotation from John 13:4. Sermons based upon the Last Supper and Passover vigil, including citations from a variety of authors, including Nicolaus Tinkisbogil (i.e., Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl; f. 12v), Alchabitus (f. 13r), Ganfredus (f. 18r), and the Revelations of St. Bridget (f. 63r). There is a cursive brief of sermo de passione (f. 74r), and medical recipes (f. 74v) (Zacour-Hirsch).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Alternate title from 19th-century description (f. ii recto).
   
• Incipit: Surgit a coena et ponit vestimenta sua (f. 1r). Explicit: ...qui pro nobis passus sit nobis via in vitam aeternam (f. 74r).
   

Extent

74 leaves : 283 x 195 (230 x 130-142) mm. bound to 290 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (modern paper) + 74 + i (modern paper); [1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century boards.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 35 lines, with vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink.

Decoration

Ink sketch of an initial S with flourishes (f. 1r); ink sketches of initials H and A with flourishes (f. 37v and 38r); small ink sketch of man, possibly in Roman garb, holding large sword attacking what could be a monster or wild animal (f. 62v); small manicules in margins throughout. There are many spaces for missing initials throughout.

Script

Written in a Gothic hybrid script, with later notes in another hand (f. 74r-74v).

Provenance

• Gift of Richard W. Foster (sold by R. Wolfle, Munich), 1967.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800
• Sermons, Latin.--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Sermons
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 15th century
• Collection of Sermons
• Christian
• Paper
• German
• Germany
• Science -- Medicine

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Table of contents

• fol. 74r — Sermo de passione, f. 74r
• fol. 74v — Medical recipes, f. 74v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Unfinished initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 5v — Manicule, f. 5v
• fol. 7r — Manicule, f. 7r
• fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v
• fol. 13v — Manicule, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Manicule, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Manicule, f. 14v
• fol. 16v — Manicule, f. 16v
• fol. 19r — Manicule, f. 19r
• fol. 20r — Manicule, f. 20r
• fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
• fol. 23v — Manicule, f. 23v
• fol. 26v — Manicule, f. 26v
• fol. 27v — Manicule, f. 27v
• fol. 28v — Manicule, f. 28v
• fol. 31v — Manicule, f. 31v
• fol. 34v — Manicule, f. 34v
• fol. 36v — Manicule, f. 36v
• fol. 37v — Unfinished initial, Initial A, f. 37v
• fol. 38r — Unfinished initial, Initial H, f. 38r
• fol. 44v — Manicule, f. 44v
• fol. 46v — Manicule, f. 46v
• fol. 47v — Manicule, f. 47v
• fol. 55v — Manicule, f. 55v
• fol. 62v — Drawing, Man holding sword and fighting beast[?], f. 62v