Sermons (DS9632) (Q42900)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861856x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861856, mssHM 58202)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Sermons (DS9632) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861856x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861856, mssHM 58202) |
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Babion, Geoffroy, 1103?-1158
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between 1125 and 1150
12. century
1125Gregorian
1150Gregorian
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Extent: ff. iii + 220 + i : parchment ; 165 x 285 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Pregothic.
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Layout: Mainly gatherings of 8 leaves; the 18th quire has 6 leaves (and foresees a change of scribal hand). Original quire signatures sometimes survive (e.g. quires 2-6, lower-case roman numerals between dots); late medieval quire signatures or catchwords frequently survive; 26 long lines, ruled in plummet with single vertical bounding lines the full height of the page, the first and second...
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Written by several scribes: there appear to be changes of script after the first six lines of the main text (f. 3); at the end of quire 18 (f. 134v), and after the first nine lines and two words of quire 19 (f. 135); at f. 146v line 14 or 15; at the end of quire 23 (f. 178); and at f. 201 line 14; it may be that the volume was copied in two "halves" simultaneously, starting at quires 1 and 19...
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Assigned Date: s. XII2/4.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
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Written in England, perhaps East Anglia, possibly at or for the Augustinian Priory of St. Osyth, about 5 miles southeast of Colchester, Essex, as suggested by Sotheby's (1989) and accepted by Jeremy Griffiths, "Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Copied or Owned in the British Isles before 1700," English Manuscript Studies, 5 (London, 1995), 42, although there is no firm evidence for this...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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