Sermons, mostly for Lent, with texts on confession; Germany, 1392

Title

Sermons, mostly for Lent, with texts on confession; Germany, 1392

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. e. 22

Place of origin

Germany

Date

1392

Early 13th century

Language

Latin

German

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper, watermarks steer's heads (three varieties) cf. Briquet 14448, 14675, 14912, circle and lines cf. Briquet 2948; parchment binding fragments (endleaves; repairs to fols. 121 and 132; tabs marking openings of sermons)

Physical extent

134 + ii leaves

Hands

Cursiva antiquor (Ältere gotische Kursive).

Decoration

Plain red initials.

Binding

Medieval binding. Sewn on four double bands laced into horizontal channels and pegged into wood (beech?) boards, covered with leather dyed red; the single (intact) strap fastening from the back to the front board with shield-shaped clasp and catch-plates. Fore-edge tabs. The front board with a title ‘Sermones quadragesimales’ writing in a large formal gothic script on a parchment slip, too long to be attached horizontally and therefore placed vertically.

Acquisition

Purchased from Bernard Halliday booksellers, December 1935 (fol. 1r).

Provenance

Charterhouse of Salvatorberg Iste liber est cartusien’ prope Erfford’ (fol. 1r, 15th century); est Carthus’ prope Erffordiam (fol. 1r, 15th century); Est Carthusien’ prope Erffordiam (fol. 132v). Probably 038 or 39 in the catalogue by P. Lehmann, Mittelalt. Bibliothekakataloge Deutschlands II, 496.

Label 77 (19th century) on spine.

Several 19th(?)- and 20th-century pencil annotations, some erased, including prices and price-code (upper pastedown), e.g. ‘K/K/’, perhaps Bernard Quaritch’s code for £1 1s.