Johannes Merkelin, Expositiones Epistolarum dominicalium

15th century, second half

parchment

i, 169 leaves

305 × 210 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 2va–169vb) Johannes Merkelin, Sermons on the Sunday Epistles

1.1 (ff. 2va–3va) Prologue

Rubric: Prologus in exposicionem epistolarum dominicalium fratris iohannis merkelyn lectoris ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini

Incipit: In christo reuerendissimo patri ac domino domino henrico diuina et apostolice sedis digna prouidencia warmiensis ecclesie episcopo frater iohannes merkelyn

Explicit: contemplandum qui est via veritas et vita valeatis feliciter peruenire

Note: f. 2r: ruled, but no text.

1.2 (ff. 3va–160vb) Expositiones Epistolarum dominicalium

Rubric: Dominica prima de aduentu domini

Incipit: FRatres scientes romanos 13 gloriosus doctor beatissimus augustinus in epistola prima ad Ieronimum

Explicit: dignetur ipse rex glorie qui in eternum viuit et regnat Amen

Note: Begins with the First Sunday of Advent and ends with the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost.

1.3 (ff. 160vb–169vb) Index

Rubric: Vt legentibus in presenti libro prompcius occurrere valeant ea que in ipso continentur decerni tabulam immediate sequentem secundum ordinem alphabeti ordinare ad quam si quis voluerit habere recursum poterit illa que diffuse sunt in ipso tradita et in diuersis locis dispersa faciliter inuneire

Note:

Alphabetical index, keyed to the medieval foliation.

f. 170: ruled, but not text.

Physical Description

Secundo folio

sis sapiens apud te

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, 1, RCI

Note: f. 1 is an inserted parchment flyleaf of later date.

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 305 × 210 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 2–170

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 305 × 210 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Running chapter numbers and letter in red and black ink in the margins.

Collation

Formula: 1-17(8), 18(10), 19-20(8), 21(8, lacks 3)

Note: VisColl collation

Catchwords: Catchwords at the end of each quire, possibly by a second hand.

Condition

Textblock

Parchment somewhat stained in places and signs of contemporary repairs, e.g. f. 31.

Layout

Columns: 2

Ruled lines: 36

Written area: 220 × 150 mm

Note: Ruling and guidelines in black ink. Pricking in the margins.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Cursiva antiquior.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(f. 1r) Top of page in brown ink by an early modern or modern hand: ‘Expositiones Epistolarum Dominicalium fratris Johannis Nickeliin (!) Lectoris ordinis Heremitarum Sancti augustini’.

Textblock

(ff. 2rb–169va) Corrections in the margins by a contemporary hand. Occasionally longer additions are found in the margins; six notes of varying sizes containing additions written by the same hand as the mian text have been bound with the manuscript ((ff. 25Av, 30Ar, 79Av, 97Ar, 115Av, 156Ar–156Ar)). All additions are keyed to the text with signes-de-renvoi. On (f. 132r) a longer addition by a different medieval hand is found in the margin.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red.

Initials:

(f. 2va): prologue opened by plain intial I extending along half the outer margin, in blue with flourishing in red. (f. 3va): main text opened by puzzle initial F over 6 lines (and extending into the margin) in red and blue with flourishing in red and blue. (ff. 4vb–169vb): plain initials over 2-3 lines alternating in blue and red with flourishing in the contrasting colour.

Edges:

Head, in brown ink: ‘epistol. dominic. exp. io. merc.’.

Binding

Description:

Medieval binding. White leather over wooden boards. The primary binding is covered by a secondary cover in chamois with overhang, see Szirmai (1999), pp. 165–166. 4 double raised bands and endbands. Brass bosses in corners and centre on both covers. Long-strap fastening on two sides, fastening plates with pin on LCO. Spine, in ink: ‘12’; in ink: ‘48’; ink on label: ‘N^o 38 Expositiones Epistolarum Dominicalium Fratris Johannis Merkeliin’; stamped in gold: ‘A 207’; ink on label: ‘38’; ink on label: ‘e 30. 4. 13.’. LCO, top of cover, in brown ink: traces of writing. LCI: pastedown consists of parchment leaf containing an unidentified theological text, possibly Thomas Aquinas, written in a Gothic cursiva antiquior. RCI: pastedown consists of parchment bifolium containing four columns of an unidentified thelogical text of uncertain date. (Both fragments are partially covered by the secondary cover. However, this cover is not glued to the the pastedown, which makes it possible to slightly lift it to read most of the text on the fragments.)

Binding dimensions: 330 × 235 × 100 mm

Condition: Leather worn. Two of the four straps appear to be modern replacements. Primary binding visible on Head and Tail.

Contemporary: Unknown

History

Origin

15th century, second half

Provenance

Origin and early provenance unknown. The manuscript has belonged to the National Library since at least the 18th century.

Two of the signa on the spine correspond to older library catalogues. ‘38’ corresponds the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e); ‘e 30. 4. 13.’ to Hammarsköld's catalogue from the 19th century (U 133). The signa ‘12’ and ‘48’ have not been identified.