Geoffrey Babio, sermons, etc.; England, 12th century (?middle)

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Title

Geoffrey Babio, sermons, etc.; England, 12th century (?middle)

Shelfmark

MS. Lawn medieval 1

Place of origin

English

Date

12th century (middle (?))

Language

Anglo-Norman

Latin

(fols. 1r–78r) Geoffrey Babio Sermones

(fol. 1r) Babio 7, ending only, the rest lost.

(fol. 1r) Babio 8

(fol. 2v) Incipit: Diligenter attenditis frates karissimi, omnes sacerdotes domini non solum episcopos

(fols. 4r–18r) Babio 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, (fol. 12r) 16, 17, 18, (fol. 16r) 15

(fols. 18r–19v) Rubric: \Sermo de passione Christi/

(fols. 19v–60v) Babio 22, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, (fol. 38v) 52, 53, 64, 59, 65, 60, 61, 62, 68 (= Ps.-Augustine, Serm. 393 De poenitentibus), (fol. 48r) 35 (incomplete due to loss of a leaf after fol. 48), 36 (beginning incomplete for the same reason), 37, 38, (fol. 52v) 50, 51, 67, 55, 57, 56

(fols. 60v–61v) Rubric: \Sermo ad sacerdotes/

(fols. 61v–70v) Babio 58, 66, 63, 72, (fol. 68v), 46, 47

(fols. 70v–71r) Items ii-iv are associated with Geoffrey Babio serm. 47 in some manuscripts; item i also occurs with sermons of Babio in Cambridge, St John's College MS. 42 (12th century, ?Worcester): see J. E. Cross, 'Wulfstan's "De Anticristo" in a twelfth-century Worcester manuscript', Anglo-Saxon England 20 (1991), pp. 203-220, arts. 28, 31-4.

i. (fol. 70v) Incipit: De hoc quod omnes diuites dicuntur fures. Preterea aliud est fratres karissimi de diuitibus

ii. (fol. 70v) Incipit: Est et aliud contrarium genus hominum qui libenter dant

iii. (fols. 70v–71r) Incipit: De sacrificio. Hec solum raptores

iv. (fol. 71r) Rubric: De ultione rapine

v. (fol. 71r–v) Rubric: De ultione sacrilegii

(fols. 71v–77r) Babio 48, 49, 70

(fols. 77r–80r) Incipit: Nunc uobis dicemus qualiter debeat infans pugnari[sic] sicut antiqui solebant facere, quamuis nunc aliter faciunt presbiteri nostri. Primum debet interrogare sacerdos eum quem debet presignare an renuntiet diabolo

(fols. 77v–79v) Additions in several 13th-century hands on the lower margins of fol. 77v-78r, and on the originally blank 78v-79v include:

Fol. 77v: verses (WIC 15245)

Fol. 78v: theological notes (i) quoting Chrysostom, Augustine (ii) on the fourteen signs of Domesday (iii) on the dies dominicus.

Fol. 79r: a medical recipe in French and Latin; form letters, one to 'fratri et concanonico domino N. de N.'; further theological notes

Fol. 79v: verses and proverbs (inc. WIC 6345); further theological notes; medical recipes in French.

Form

codex

Support

parchment (occasional flaws in the text area; early repairs, e.g fol. 48), HSOS

Physical extent

iii (early modern paper) + 79 + iii (early modern paper)

Hands

Protogothic; one hand (?) except for the additions.

Decoration

2- or 3-line arabesque initials, sometimes with elaborate marginal extensions, in red, green-and-red, red-and-blue, green, and blue

Marginal sketch of intertwining forms, fol. 38r.

Binding

17th-century: blind-tooled calf over pasteboards; sewn on four bands. Three stamps of a Tudor rose in gilt on the spine.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Provenance

Extensive evidence of early readers: annotations throughout in several contemporary and later hands, mostly in Latin, occasionally (e.g. fol. 48v) in French.

Gwysaney library: shelfmarks 7 (front pastedown; cf. HMC 6th Report App. 419), 11 (front pastedown, cf. the 1740 catalogue), 35 (spine, cf. the 1778 catalogue). (For the numbering in the 1740 and 1778 catalogues see 'The Gywsaney manuscripts', National Library of Wales Journal 7/4 (1952) 326-343 at 329-30.)

Sotheby's 15 June 1959, lot 206; bought by Maggs.

Bought from Maggs by Brian Lawn (1905-2001) in the same year.

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