Preaching materials: tracts and sermons

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Title

Preaching materials: tracts and sermons

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 190

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii/xiv or xiv 1/4

s. xiii2/4

s. xiii med

s. xiv in

s. xiv in.

s. xiii ex. and s. xv med.

ss. xiii2/4–xiv in., with later additions

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Anglo-Norman

Latin

MS 190 - binding leaf (a)

a. Fol. 312 The remains of a bifolium, its conjoint stub immediately preceding it, is blank except for an added note (see Provenance); fol. 312v has very faded theological notes in brown crayon.

MS 190 - binding leaf (b)

a. Fol. 313rab: Incipit: ⟨S⟩amaritanus uulnerato apropians curacioni cius sacramentorum alligamenta adhibint quia contra peccati

Manuscript 1 = Fols. 1–8

c. Fols. 1v–3: An unidentified sermon. Preceded (fol. 1) by a note on figural reading of scripture in the same hand; fols. 4, 5, and 8v have very faded theological notes.

Manuscript 2 = Fols. 9–14

1. Fols. 9ra–13vb Incipit: Decem sunt canones ewangelistarum canon est regularis collectio capitulorum in quibus conueniunt uel differunt euangelia

2. Fols. 14ra–vb: STEPHEN LANGTON Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum

Manuscript 3 = Fols. 15–69

3. Fols. 15–63v: Flores from Gregory the Great

4. Fols. 64ra–69rb: Rubric: A in propria potentia

5. Fols. 69rb–vb: Incipit: Humilitatis attende exercicium que ducit ad dexteram | Cognitis ciuibus babilonie

Manuscript 4, Booklet 1 = Fols. 70–120

6. Fols. 70ra–120va: BONAVENTURE Breviloquium

d. Fol. 120vb De trinubio Annae

Manuscript 4, Booklet 2 = Fols. 121–8

7. Fols. 121ra–27vb: BONAVENTURE Itinerarium mentis in deum

Manuscript 5, Booklet 1 = Fols. 129–50

8. Fols. 129ra–30vb: Rubric: Sermo de dominica proxima ante aduentum

9. Fols. 131ra–46rb: ROBERT GROSSETESTE Incipit: Deus est quo nichil melius excogitari potest cu\i/ posse maximum scire uerissimum

e. Fols. 146rb–48rb: Incipit: Omne regnum in se ipsum diuisum desolabitur etc. Istud omne in 3bus. consistit bene enim scitis quod tria sunt regna

f. Fols. 148va–50vb: Incipit: Amice ascende superius Luce 14. Ista uidentur conuenire festibus que concurrunt hodie videlicet cristi ascensioni

Manuscript 5, Booklet 2 = Fols. 151–82

10. Fols. 151ra–54va: Rubric: Sermo de commemoracione animarum et generaliter ad penitentes

11. Fols. 154va–55vb: Rubric: Sermo in die cene

12. Fols. 155vb–57rb: Rubric: Sermo in assupcione [sic for assumpcione] beate Marie uirginis

13. Fols. 157rb–164va: Rubric: Sermo de omnibus sanctis et generaliter de pace

14. Fols. 164va–68rb: Rubric: Tractatus de decem preceptis decalogi

15. Fols. 168va–176ra: Speculum spiritualis amicitae

16. Fols. 177ra–180vb: Sermon

17. Fols. 180vb–2vb: Sermon

Manuscript 5, Booklet 3 = Fols. 183–214

18. Fols. 183ra–84vb: THOMAS OF HALES Sermon

19. Fols. 185ra–8vb: Sermon

20. Fols. 189ra–vb: Rubric: alius

21. Fols. 190rb–99rb: EDMUND RICH Mirour de seinte eglyse

22. Fols. 200va–2ra Rubric: de assupcione [sic for assumpcione] beate uirginis

23. Fols. 202ra–7rb: Rubric: I. dominica post octab’ pasche

24. Fols. 207rb–9ra: Rubric: sermo de sancta cruce

25. Fols. 209ra–10vb: Rubric: dominica infra octab’ pasche

26. Fol. 211: Incipit: Exultabit cor meum in domino cantabo domino qui bona tribuit michi etc. exultacio est quando tantum est gaudium quod non potest contineri

27. Fols. 211v–13v Incipit: Quis dabit ex sion salutare israel sion maria propter nominis interpretacionem interpretatur enim tvrris et de hac ysaie 5. plantauit

Manuscript 5, Booklets 4–9 = Fols. 215–311

At this point, the MS becomes simply a sermon collection. The sermons appear to form a set, including cross-references from the discussion of ‘ignis’ in one sermon to that in another. Those of booklet 6 uniquely include English. Only one of the fifty-nine main text items in this portion (ignoring a variety of added theological notes in blank spaces), seems to appear elsewhere (item 40). Only some of the main text items have been described below, including the first five texts.

28. Fols. 215ra–16vb: Rubric: Sermo de Natiuitate beate uirginis Marie

29. Fols. 216vb–17v: Rubric: dominica 24. post trinitatem

30. Fols. 218ra–221rb Rubric: dominica 3. aduentus

31. Fols. 221rb–23va: Rubric: Dominica 4. aduentus

32. Fols. 223va–5ra Rubric: dominica infra natale

39. Fols. 236ra–238rb: Rubric: Sermo tempore penitencie

40. Fols. 238va–40vb: Rubric: Sermo de angelis

Form

codex

Support

Comprising five originally separate MSS, all on vellum (3–4 HSOS/ HFFH, the remainder FSOS/FHHF)

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 311+ v (numbered fols. 312–13, iv–vi).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on three thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf (the date 1879 on the verso) and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two vellum flyleaves from MS, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled leaf (12–13, iv–vi).

Provenance

'Anno domini MoCCCoNonagesimo sexto dominus Thomas de Arundell Archiepiscopus eboracensis et domini Regis cancellarius celebrauit dominica apud Westm’ die sancte pentecostis et feria secunda proxima sequenti’ (fol. 312; anglicana s. xv in.).

'Liber iste ecclesie beati petri Westmonasteriiex procuracione fratris Willieimi de hasele fuit domni Willielmi de feltham uicarii quondam de bauhe cuius anime propicietur altissimus’ (fol. 1, in red with a faded blue initial; textura, s. xv) (Ker, MLGB197, 314) . Hasele’s floruit is c.1266, and he also donated BL, MS Additional 8167; but his book can have included no more than the first three MSS here. The remainder must represent a Westminster preaching collection.

'Liber Richardi Butler rectoris de Aston in le walles ex dono Magistri Albani Butler senioris24 Decembris 1607’ (fol. 1, upper margin).

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