(Q20667)

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Collection of Sermons
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Extent: 217; 295 x 210 mm bound to 306 x 220 mm; parchment
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Spine has become detached from text block and text block is split; quire 11 (fols. 82-89) is almost detached
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The sermon numbers in the table of contents are from the Patrologia Latina; they do not appear in the manuscript
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Binding: Original calf over wooden boards; blind stamped with diagonal lines; remains of clasps; labels on the spine with the numbers 48 and 89 and possibly the letter G
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Layout: Two columns of forty-one lines; frame-ruled in lead; written area: 210 x 140 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
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Decoration: Four six-line puzzle initials in red and blue, flourished with red, blue, or purple penwork (fols. 1r, 75r, 119r, 183v); one five-line initial in red flourished with blue and purple penwork (fol. 136r); three- to five-line initials alternating between red and blue throughout
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W.J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2045, no. 115.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 29, no. 23.
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Provenance: Carthusian monastery of Saint Barbara at Cologne (catalogue entry from the 1910 sale of the Manuscript of Thomas Phillipps pasted inside the front and back covers)?; Leander van Ess (sold 1824); Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 474 (manuscript number written in ink, fol. 1r; sold 1910) to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate inside front cover); given by his widow, Anne...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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