Homiliae in Evangelia; Homilies on the Gospels (DS499) (Q2459)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Poole 32)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Homiliae in Evangelia; Homilies on the Gospels (DS499) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Poole 32) |
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The ducal library of Arenberg, Brussels, probably acquired by Duc Engelbert-Auguste d'Arenberg (1824-1875); one of two leaves sold by the tenth duke, Engelbert-Charles d'Arenberg (1899-1974), Hauswedell, Hamburg, Auktion 52-53, April 1953, lot 7a; bought in February 1954 by George A. Poole from W.H. Schab, New York dealer, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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s. IX(in); 800-815
9. century
800Gregorian
815Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Other decoration, One leaf: Headings in pale red half uncials, each sentence beginning with an enlarged capital infilled with wash, usually in two colors (orange and dark blue, yellow and purple, etc.) characteristic of insular or Irish manuscripts, and from continental houses established by insular monks.
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Script, One leaf: Miniscule, early.
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Layout, One leaf: Faint ruling in blind, 23 lines, written space 188 mm x 115 mm, pricking in outer margins.
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Manuscript note: Some staining and creasing.
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One leaf: Scribe also wrote the collection of homilies in Merseburg, Bibliothek des Domkapitals, MS 89 (Bischoff 1998). Spacious miniscule that leans slightly to the right, de Hamel notes it as flamboyant and distinctive. Parallels to these large initials are found in mss tentatively attributable to Würzburg.
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One leaf: Latin.
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One leaf r-v: Book I of Gregory's Gospel homilies, the recto showing the end of homily 8, on Luke 2:1-15, and verso ending on the Gospel reading for homily 10, Matthew 2:1-11. Omission of homily 9. A similar omission of homily 9 occurs on fol. 34v of an edited anthology of texts in Munich, Clm. 27152, prob. s. Bavaria in VIII__^in___ soon after 816. It may be that they share a common exemplar...
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Incipit, One leaf r-v: magno valde, et intrantes.
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Explicit, One leaf r-v: ante redemptoris adventum angeli.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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