Sermons for Sundays and Holy days throughout the year, Short sermons for Sundays, Short sermons for Holy days, Index, Treatise on Canon Law (Constitutiones Clementinae, Bk. V) — 15th century, early; Italy (?)

Title

Sermons for Sundays and Holy days throughout the year, Short sermons for Sundays, Short sermons for Holy days, Index, Treatise on Canon Law (Constitutiones Clementinae, Bk. V) — 15th century, early; Italy (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 293

Associated place

Split

Italian

Bribir

Place of origin

Italy (?)

Date

14th century

15th century, early

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 113leaves

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. Spine replaced with light brown leather, late 19th century, Bodleian

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 Bribiron the Dalmatian coast; with a later owner from Split

Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian Library in 1817 from Giovanni Perissinotti. On the purchase, see Digital Bodleian

Provenance

Colophon (see above) startes that an index was added in 1428, in Dalmatia

Owned in the 16th century by 'Nicolaus de Spaleto [Spalatro]'

Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727– c. 1806)

Following Canonici's death, the collection passed to his brother, Giuseppe Canonici, and then to Canonici's nephew, Giovanni Perissinotti, in 1807 following Giuseppe Canonici's death

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].'.