Homilies for Lent

Germany?, 15th century, last quarter, or 16th century, first quarter

paper

11 leaves

320 × 110 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1r–3r) Homily for Laetare Sunday

Rubric: Dominica in medio xl^me

Incipit: Letare iherusalem et conuentum facite omnes qui diligitis eam ysaias vltimus In dominica septuagesime incipit mater nostra spiritualis agere memoriam

Explicit: Donet dominus deus vt obseruetis hec omnia in vitam eternam ingrediendo Amen

2 (ff. 3v–6r) Homily for Sexagesima Sunday

Rubric: Dominica lx^me

Incipit: Exiit qui seminat semen suum lucas viii Videmus quod unus \est/ sol et tamen eius splendor vehemens super res huius mundi

Explicit: et seminet hic in lacrimis et penitencia vt in morte cum iustis in exultacione metet Quod nobis donare dignetur deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus Amen

3 (ff. 6v–11r) Sermon

Incipit: In iudicio extremo faciet homo racionem de anima sua et eius potenciis Et de corpore et eius sensibus et vtriusque cogitationibus Locutionibus et Operibus

Explicit: 3^o peccator descendit et recedit a deo tamquam per gradus deorsum quando post mala verba et illicita venit ad opera peccati

Physical Description

Support

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–11v

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 320 × 110 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 2–11,

Motif: Mount with three coupeaux, an extended cross above and a six-pointed star above the cross.

Note: Similar to Piccard XVI:2, VII, 2547.

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, 1-11.

Collation

Note: The manuscript is a booklet consisting of five bifolia, the four innermost of which are half the size of the outermost. The outer bifolium has been folded vertically twice, with the first centre fold left uncut, so that the folding renders this bifolium as two leaves on the left side (f. 1 and f. 2) and one double-layered (i.e. folded) leaf on the right (f. 11), resulting in a total of six leaves on the left side but only five on the right. The gutter exhibits three holes from a former binding, but the booklet is now held together by two small wads of paper stuck through the top and bottom hole respectively.

Condition

Textblock

First and last leaf stained, indicating that the booklet has been stored without any covers.

Layout

Columns: 1

Written lines: 37–43

Written area: 260 × 75 mm

Note: Guidelines in ink.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1r–3r)Semi-hybrida.

Hand 2

(ff. 3v–11r)Hybrida with the very occasional looped ascender.

Additions

Textblock

(f. 1r) Top of page in black in by an early modern hand: ‘Homiliae in dominica quadragesima et Sexagesima.’.

(ff. 2r–10r) Marginal notes indicating the contents in at least two, maybe three contemporary hands.

(f. 5r) Correction of an omission in the scribal hand.

(f. 10v) Manicule.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink; rubrics and quotations underlined in red; capitals touched in red. Last two folios lack rubrication.

Initials:

(f. 6v): initial ‘I’ in outline over 2 lines in same ink as text with simple red flourishing in the counter space.

Binding

Description:

The booklet is stored in a folded piece of paper. LCO, top left corner in pencil, the current signum; mid page, in ink by a modern hand: ‘Homiliae in dominica quadragesima et sexagesima’.

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

Germany? 15th century, last quarter, or 16th century, first quarter. Origin and dating based on comparison of the watermarks to the similar designs recorded by Piccard, vol. XVI, no. 2, chapter VII, nos. 2443–2487, which all date from between 1493 to 1508 (nos. 2443-45 date to 1520/21) and occur in around 30 locations throughout a geographical swath stretching from Braunschweig in the north to Montbéliard in the southwest and Innsbruck in the southeast.