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17 - Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. th. d. 1 (Q)

from Part I - The Collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Siegfried Wenzel
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Summary

The sermons in this volume represent a unified collection because we know the name of its collector. The volume is also written in a single hand and has a medieval foliation and index, and its sermons seem to be unique to this collection. The manuscript is made up of paper and parchment and was written in the 1430s. Unfortunately the codex is in very poor physical condition: water damage occurs throughout and is so severe that from the opening leaves of the sermon collection, now ff. 5–29, only fragments remain. The medieval table at the end (f. 178r–v), however, gives some help by listing the themata of the sermons contained in the volume together with their occasions and the medieval folio numbers. It also shows that the traces of an alphabetical collection of theological articles that appear at the beginning and end of the volume were not part of it when the table was entered.

The book is written in a single fifteenth-century Anglicana bookhand with some Secretary features. It contains sixty-two sermons and several scattered narraciones; the latter and occasional non-sermon material are usually topically related to the sermon they follow, sometimes even with explicit references. F. 43v (the recto is blank), a smaller parchment leaf, begins a list of “Themata dominicalia,” which extends to f. 45 and includes saints’ feasts. It provides occasions and sermon themata (usually with biblical source) but no folio references.

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Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England
Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif
, pp. 95 - 99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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