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

Title

Postilla epistolarum dominicalium

Authors

• Matthias de Liegnitz ca. um 1379 (https://viaf.org/viaf/32389733)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 216
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript on paper is a copy of sermons on the Epistles by Matthias de Liegnitz, professor of theology at the Univerzita Karlova in Prague. After a brief introduction, the sermons are arranged according to the liturgical calendar, with rubrics from the Sundays of Advent through the Sundays after Trinity Sunday. The text is written in Gothic cursive script in two columns, with one decorated initial at the beginning and rubrication throughout.

Notes

• Probably written by multiple hands, with varying line height and number of lines per page
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Cloche 3959-3983, similar watermarks appearing in northern Italy, Germany, Holland, and France throughout the second half of the fourteenth century and the first quarter of the fifteenth

Extent

I+210+i; 308 x 210 mm bound to 320 x 225 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

Collation

1 (11, +11), 2-6 (12), 7 (15, +15), 8 (12), 9 (10), 10-17 (12), 18 (6)

Signatures

Quires 1-18 signed 1-18 (mostly roman numerals, a few arabic numerals), lower center last verso

Support

Paper

Binding

Leather, blind-tooled; damaged paper label on spine with ... thia de Legnit ... 1408

Layout

Two columns of forty-one to forty-four lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 190 x 147 mm

Decoration

Six-line decorated initial (fol. 1r) with first five lines of text in double-height textualis semi-quadrata; three- or four-line initial in red at the beginning of each sermon followed by one line of textualis script; rubrication, paragraph marks, underlining, and initials touched in red ink throughout; occasional nota marks including one manicule (fol. 17v) in red ink in margins and one decorated ascender incorporating a drawing of a fish (fol. 88v)

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Theology

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 17v — Manicule
• fol. 88v — Marginal decoration, Fish