Shelfmark
MS 74
Author
Jacobus,, ca. 1229 - 1298 de Voragine
Title
Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones dominicales. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Postilla Januensis · s · Januensis sermones dominicales
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1425 and ca. 1475.
Physical description
1 volume (iii, 190, iv leaves) : parchment ; 26 x 18.2 cm.
Note
Sermons, three for each Sunday, from Advent to the twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost (ff. 1-182) followed by a table (ff. 182v-190) referring to sermon numbers and subdivision of sermons by letters and numbers placed in the margins.
Note
In the table, lettered subdivisions often employ numbers doubly, the leading number being placed in a circle or underlined for distinction; the stories in the sermons are listed at "Narracio" under 73 heads.
Note
In sermon 7 (f. 6v) an interpolated passage "similiter Notyngam ... et Rabanus dicunt vt dicit Repingdon" comes presumably from the margin of the exemplar; this mislead a 15th-century reader who wrote in the margin "Hic nota quot Notyngam et repyngdon erant ante Ianuensis".
Note
Another marginal note on f. 61: "Nota contra fratres pred[icatores]".
Note
Leaf 190v was left blank.
Note
15th-century additions on the flyleaves and on the blank page at the end: f. iii: extracts from De animalibus, De celo et mundo, etc. headed "secundum Aristotelem at alios philosophos in libro et tractatibus rerum precipue aristotelis"; f. iii verso: note on the twelve "effectus" of the eukarist, according to G. de Baysio on the Decretum, De consecratione, distinctio 2; f. iii verso, from "Paris' in opere 40li sermo 53" on Sapientia dei; f. 190v: from "Ianuensis in opere 40li dominica 4a sermo. Inuenit ihesus in templo vendentes ..."; ff. 191-2: a list of the pericopes of the sermons in the main text.
Note
In the margin of the note on Sapientia dei on f. iii verso, a reader's note begins: "I loue better terrestria quam celestia ...".
Note
Leaves iii, 191-2 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Note
Written space: ca. 192 x 130 mm (but less at first).
Note
Two column sof 32-45 lines.
Note
Frame ruling.
Note
Collation: 1-13¹² 4-7⁸ 8-18¹⁰ 19⁸ , but quires 4-9 have a ninth leaf places in each of them after leaf 2 (ff. 39, 48, 57, 66).
Note
Quires lettered from a in the usual late medieval manner.
Note
Script: ff. 1-7 in a neat hand in which secretary predominates, and the rest in a mixture of current anglicana and secretary, mainly by one hand.
Note
Initial in blue patterned in red on f. 1; red patterned in white on f. 182v; 3-line blue initials on ff. 1-7; and 2-line red initials.
Note
Secundo folio: animam suam.
Note
Listed in the college accounts for 1608-9 as one of 14 specified manuscripts bound by Williamson, but now in an 18th century binding.
Note
16th century ownership inscriptions on ff. 1 and 192: "Pertinet ad M' Walterum Smyth" (see provenance note below).
Note
At Eton by 1608-9.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.6.1.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 690-1
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 74
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 74
Provenance
Probably given to Eton by Walter Smyth (d. 1524, Fellow of Eton, 1501-1524), but not either of the books referred to in his will.
Binding
18th century plain calf binding; see above for evidence of previous Williamson binding.
Subject
Sermons Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Smyth, Walter, ? - 1524 former owner.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50001