Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Jacobus de Voragine: Sermones etc.

Authors

• Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298 (http://viaf.org/viaf/100198644)
• Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349 (http://viaf.org/viaf/95296771)

Other related names

• Kartause Erfurt, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/141918870)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

20
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• Call_Accession_number: MS 20

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century collection of devotional works, including the sermons of the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacobus de Voragine; the Postilla de dominicis of the late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra; and the Itinerarius eternitatis. Written in Germany in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands, the manuscript is simply decorated in red ink and has frequent marginal readers' notes and marks. Text divisions are marked with leather finding tabs on the fore edge of the volume. The pastedowns (back pastedown now free as a flyleaf) are fragments of parchment leaves from a larger manuscript written in two columns of Gothic textualis script with one-line initials in red, with texts including hymn lyrics.

Notes

• Different works written in Gothic cursive script by multiple hands; final work written in Hybrida script
   
• Final leaf, foliated 264, is a fragment of a parchment leaf from a larger manuscript; it was formerly a pastedown, matching the pastedown inside the front cover
   
• Two back flyleaves, one paper and one a parchment former pastedown, foliated as 263 and 264; flyleaves not included in collation
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Cercle 3225 (Ferrara, 1371, fol. 106) and Cercle 3228 (Udine, 1376, fol. 182)

Extent

255+ii; 290 x 205 mm bound to 290 x 215 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, upper right recto; the foliation sequence (3-106, 110-132, 134-204, 206-225, 225-261, 263-264) includes missing leaves (1-2, 107-109, 205, 262, no obvious loss of text) and foliation errors (133 skipped, 225 duplicated); references in this record are to the foliation as it appears in the manuscript

Collation

1-8 (12), 9 (11, +4 -9 -10 -11), 10-12 (12), 13 (10), 14 (14), 15-16 (12), 17 (12, -11), 18-21 (12), 22 (8)

Signatures

Leaves in the first half of quire 19 (fols. 219-223) may be signed including the numbers 1-6, lower center recto

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower right last verso, except at the end of a work

Binding

Original (fifteenth-century) pigskin over wood boards with worm holes; remnants of two metal clasps; damaged fifteenth-century label pasted on front cover with text in Latin concludes with a description of contents; spine title in ink, Itinerarius aeternitatis, sermones Lyrae et Jacobi de Voragine etc.; paper label at bottom of spine, 65

Layout

Written in two columns of thirty-nine to sixty-six lines; frame-ruled in ink; pricking visible in two works (fols. 183-204, 206); written area: 235 x 165 mm

Decoration

Rubrication, two- and three-line initials, paragraph marks, and underlining in red ink throughout, except in the last work, in which spaces left for initials were not used and there is no rubrication (fols. 254r-261r); occasional manicules by multiple readers (fols. 87r, 191r, 218v, 224r, 231v)

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Hybrida

Provenance

• Formerly held in the library of the Kartause Erfurt, the Carthusian monastery in Erfurt (ownership inscriptions, fols. 3r, 263v)
   

Related resources

• Faye, C.U., continued and edited by W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 469, no. 20.

Keywords

• Collection of sermons
• 15th century
• German
• Gothic
• Manicules
• Germany
• Devotion
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Sermones, Jacobus de Voragine
• fol. 110r — Postilla de dominicis, Nicholas of Lyra
• fol. 183r — De dedicatione templi Salomonis
• fol. 207r — Itinerarius eternitatis
• fol. 254r — Treatise on the eleven joys of the Virgin

Decorations

• fol. 207r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 241v — Manicule