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Gospel Sermons, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Germany, mid-fifteenth century]
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
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315 leaves, 216mm. by 150mm., wanting one or two leaves from beginning and index at end, contemporary foliation, single column, 30 lines in brown ink in a good hybrida hand, initial letters touched in red, biblical quotations underlined in red, water damage to upper and outer edges has left areas of the volume stained, faded and paper brittle in places (with significant loss to edges of leaves at each end), else fair condition, in late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century binding of dark leather over pasteboards, with armorial bookplate of the Rt. Rev. Charles Brodrick, archbishop of Cashel, Ireland (held office 1801-22)
Catalogue Note
This extensive collection of sermons on the Gospels contains numerous citations to the works of Hugh of St. Victor (c.1078-1141) and Hugh of St. Cher (c.1200-63), and a carefully referenced index. It was most probably made for a preacher, and some leaves are marked up for reading on particular days. However, the copyist's interest was not completely confined to the religious, on fol.261r he adds as an afterthought a cross-reference to De arte magica astro(no)mia astrologia.