1(ff. 1ra–95vb)Sermons for Sundays throughout the year
DIcite filie syon (Mat. 21:5) [...] Primo uideamus quales debent esse illi qui debent hoc dicere
id est cadet fratribus et corruet et non erit qui suscitet eum ysaia xvi Audiuimus superbiam moab superbus est ualde superbia eius arrogancia eius et (Isa. 16:6)
Modern foliation in pencil. From f. 290r onwards the foliation is corrected in places (e.g. f. 290r first foliated as ‘f. 300’). f. 306 is a flyleaf and not part of the textblock.
Contemporary foliation in brown ink: ff. 1r–95r: ‘i a - xxxv b’; ff. 96r–303r: ‘i c - xxvii f’.
Quire signatures in Roman numerals at the end of each quire. The two texts in the manuscripts have separate quire signatures. ff. 1–95 carry the signatures ‘Ius
’ to ‘VIus
’ (signatures on last two quires lost due to trimming and missing leaf); ff. 96–305 carry the signatures ‘Ius’ to ‘XIIIIus
’ (q. 18 and q. 19 both carry the signature ‘Xus
’, q. 24 has lost its signature due to trimming, q. 25 lacks signature).
Catchwords by the scribe.
Condition
Textblock
Strips cut from the bottom part of over 50 leaves. The size of the missing piece is usually about a fifth of the entire leaf, e.g. on f. 15. The strips seem to have been cut just under the last line of text. In some places the excised strips are smaller, e.g. f. 53 and f. 123. (The excisions were probably done due to the need for scrap parchment in the monastery.)
Layout
2
34
140 ×
105 mm
Guidelines and ruling in lead.
Script
Textblock
Hand 1
Gothic minuscule.
Additions
Binding/Endleaves
(LCI)
Top of page: faded or partially erased notes by several hands; below in ink by a medieval hand: ‘liber monasterii Sancte marie virignis in watzstenum’; bottom left corner, in ink by a modern hand: ‘NESCHER 228’.
(f. L1r)
Top of page, in ink by a medieval hand: ‘E primo 4us
’;
(f. L1v)
Top left corner, in ink by a modern hand: ‘NESCHER 228’.
(f. L2v)
Top of page, in ink by a medieval hand: a table of contents.
(f. 306v)
Top of page, in ink by a medieval hand: ‘probacio?’; below: ‘liber Monasterii Sancte Marie Virignis in Watzstenum’; below: ‘amgo ’(pentrial).
(RCI)
Top of page, in ink by a modern hand: annotations in Swedish which seem to concern the price of parchment.
Textblock
(ff. 1r–301v)
Frequent additions in the margins. Most of the additions are made in brown ink by contemporary hand and consist of short chapter titles, corrections and nota marks. On many leaves, e.g. (f. 156r), there are also annotions by a medieval hand at the very bottom of the page. Most of these are only partially legible due to trimming. In some places, especially on (ff. 192r–196r), there is copious, but barely legible glossing in lead point.
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in black ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red. Pilcrows alternating in red and blue.
(f. 1r), (f. 96r): each of the two texts is opened by a puzzle initial ‘D’ and an plain initial ‘H’ over 4 lines in blue and red. Flourishing in red and blue. The letter extends into a border along the inner margin;
(ff. 2v–295r): plain initials over 2-3 lines in red or blue with flourishing in the contrasting colour.
(ff. 161v–162r): bound bookmark of red and yellow yarn.
Binding
Medieval binding. White/light brown leather over wooden boards. 6 double raised bands and endbands. 2 pin clasps with pins on RCO. Spine, in ink: ‘Sermones in ewangelio [--- 12 chars ---]
’; stamped in gold: ‘A 188’.
At some point during the late middle ages the manuscript was acquired by Vadstena abbey (see owner's marks on LCI and f. 306v, and the shelf mark on f. L1r). After the dissolution of the monastery the manuscript may have ended up on the private market. During the late 18th/early 19th century it belonged to the book collector Daniel Georg Nescher.
