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

Title

Sermons

Other related names

• Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/34580474)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 194
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 150

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a collection of sermons for the Temporal cycle, copied in Germany in the second half of the fifteenth century. The sermons are arranged in two sections, the first for Sundays from the first Sunday of Advent through the twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity Sunday (fols. 1r-53r), and the second for the days of Lent, from Ash Wednesday through Good Friday (fols. 55r-118v). The two sections are ruled slightly differently and written by multiple hands, but the same watermarked paper appears throughout the volume and the foliation is also consistent throughout the volume except for stubs and a skip in foliation between 53 and 61, between the two sections.

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Lettre P 8606 (Troyes, 1470) and 8625 (Douai)

Extent

Ii+118+i; 285 x 205 mm bound to 293 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink, in the upper outer corner on both sides, 1-53 and 61-124 (modern fols. 55-118); references in this record are to modern foliation

Collation

1-4 (12), 5 (10, -6 -7 -8 -9), 6-9 (12), 10 (16)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords, lower right last verso, quires 1, 6-9 (fols. 12v, 66v, 78v, 90v, 102v)

Binding

Later marbled paper over paper boards

Layout

Two columns of forty to fifty-four lines; first part frame-ruled in ink (fols. 1-54), second part frame-ruled in lead (fols. 55-118); running titles for feast or ferial days in upper margin; written area: 210 x 140 mm

Decoration

Initials in red, mostly two or three lines in height, except for a simple nine-line initial at the beginning of the Sunday sermons (fol. 1r), and a six-line initial ornamented with green penwork at the beginning of the Lenten sermons (fol. 55r); paragraph marks, underlining, rubrication, capitals touched in red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Hybrida

Provenance

• Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 307; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 691 (inscription, fol. 1r); his sale Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, 727, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (armorial bookplate inside front cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Collection of Sermons

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Temporal sermons]
• fol. 55r — [Lenten sermons]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 29v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial C
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry