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Sermones Quarelli, sermons for the temporal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [apparently England, late thirteenth century]
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
142 leaves (plus 2 original endleaves at front and another at end), 135mm. by 100mm., complete, collation: i-xi12, xii10, single column, 31 lines in dark brown ink in a single early gothic minuscule hand, rubrics in red, spaces left for initials, some discolouration to a number of leaves, else fair and presentable, marbled endleaves, eighteenth-century gilt-tooled calf over pasteboards
Provenance
provenance
1. Medieval names on the flyleaf are "Galfridus goddsone, Henricus hortleze, matilda mowthles and Cecilia sonedone". There is a later name, apparently Thomas Adman, at the end.
3. Bergendal MS.57; bought by Joseph Pope from Bernard Rosenthal in 1983: Bergendal catalogue no.57; Stoneman, 'Guide', p.189.
Catalogue Note
text
The same sermons occur in Paris, Bibl. Mazarine ms.1042, opening "Ecce rex tuus ... [Matthew 21:5] In verbis istis persone venientis dignitas ...", and ending on fol.138v, "Expliciunt quarrelli vocaliter concordati ...". There was a copy at St. Augustine's, Canterbury in the late fourteenth century (B. Barker-Benfield, St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, 2008, pp.776-77; recording no other copy).