(Q43614)
Statements
Northern homily cycle
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Sermons--Ireland--15th century
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between 1400 and 1415
15. century
1400Gregorian
1415Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 231 : parchment ; 145 x 217 mm
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Title from printed catalog
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Anglicana formata.
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Layout: 1-48 5-612 7-118 1212 138 14-1512 16-1710 1812 19-218 2212 23-248 258(-8). Catchwords in inside lower margin, enclosed in red ink frames, except for 3 in brown ink frames (f. 108v, end of quire 12; f. 128v, end of quire 14; f. 140v, end of quire 15). 38 to 52 long lines, frame ruled on 3 sides in plummet, or occasionally in ink; slash prick marks at 4 corners of text frame.
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Span folios: ff. 1-231v.
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Other Decoration: Rough drawings in red ink placed at the beginning of texts on ff. 1, 207, 213v, 218; in black ink, on f. i a rough drawing of a lion (?) and on f. 231 an initial (?). Rubrics for the feast in red, or filled in red in left margin or at head of page; New Testament verses filled with red. Each text beginning with "narracio" or "relacio" has a red ink hand with sleeve (e.g. ff...
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The scribe signed his name on f. 202 (W. K. or W. R.?) and on f. 231 (William Kame or Thame?).
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Assigned Date: s. XVin.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/14/2012.
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Written in Ireland, given the spelling forms of the scribe; see M. Benskin and A. McIntosh, "A Mediaeval English Manuscript of Irish Provenance," Medium Aevum 41 (1972) 128-31, and A. McIntosh, "Some Words in the Northern Homily Collection," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972) 196-208. On f. 231v, a series of cancelled notes in a fifteenth century hand, of which the last appears to read...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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