Sermons for Sundays and Holy days — 15th century, early; Italian (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 293
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Sermons for Sundays and Holy days — 15th century, early; Italian (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 293
Associated place
Bribir
Split
Italian
Place of origin
Italian (?)
Date
15th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Binding
15th century, c. 1428 or after, Dalmatian coast: wood boards, left bare, slightly polished; spine formerly of red leather (later replaced), stretched about one third across each board, no signs of fixing nails; remains of a single broad central fore-edge strap of red tawed leather, nailed into a slot at front board and running to a lost catch-plate at the back; edges plain; paste-downs and conjoint flyleaves from a large Latin canon-law manuscript, 14th century, Italian (Constitutiones Clementinae, Bk. V). Spine replaced with light brown leather, late 19th century, Bodleian. 185–189 135 c. 33–35 (book closed).
The binding of this early 15th-century Italian(?) manuscript incorporates at the end (fols. 102–110) a table and index added 1428 by a Croatian Franciscan at Bribir on the Dalmatian coast; with a later owner from Split.
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Title
Short Latin sermons
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 293
Summary
Short Latin sermons for Sundays (fol. 1) and holy days (fol. 60) throughout the year: the first for the 1st Sunday in Advent beg. 'Deus iudex noster ... Duo notate primo, filii, Dei dingnitas, id est Deus iudex noster 2. ipsius in mundum aduenie[n]tis humilitas.'
A leaf or two are torn out at the end, and an index is added later with the following colophon:--'Hanc tabulam Dei adiutorio ... per alphabetum notabilia de isto libro extrahens composui ad profectum & utilitatem predicancium ego frater Petrus scriptorum de Scardona ordinis Minorum manu propria scribens 1428 Breberij [Brebir] post congregationem Chatarj [Cattaro, in Dalmatia] celebratam eodem modo Jn festo beati patris nostri Francisci.'
The fly-leaves are from a Latin treatise on Canon Law of the 14th cent.
Date
Written early in the 15th century in Italy (?)
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, in double columns, binding, boards partly covered with red leather, 15th cent.
Physical extent
113 Leaves
Custodial history
Owned in the 16th cent. by 'Nicolaus de Spaleto [Spalatro].'.
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Short Latin sermons
