Accession number
MS M.899
Object title
[Commonplace Book of homiletic and canonistic texts] (MS M.899).
Display Date
early 16th century.
Created
Possibly France, early 16th century.
Binding
Saddlebag binding: long and narrow, meant to fit into a saddlebag (carried by an itinerant preacher), blind-stamped, brown calf over wooden boards, decorated "in the French manner" with a broad rectangular frame surrounding vertical strips of roll-tooling; paper label pasted on spine written: SERMONES.
Credit line
Purchase; Ifan Kyrle Fletcher; May, 1960.
Description
377 leaves (1 column, 32-56 lines), bound : paper, vellum, ill. ; 199 x 68 mm.
Provenance
17th-century inscription on fol. 2: F[ra]t[rum] minorum recollectorum conventus Flexis catalogo inscriptus, probably the Recollect Friars of Flexia in the town of La Fleche on the Loire in the Dept. of Sarthe; inside front cover, pasted down, a sliver of printed catalogue entry:S. Cyrilli Sermones, MS, on vellum and paper; purchased from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, London, in May, 1960.
Notes
Ms. commonplace book, written in France? ca. 1500-1510. The first and last quires are of vellum and the remaining leaves (361 folios) are of paper.
The manuscript is a miscellany of homiletic and canonistic texts and citations from the Fathers of the Church and later authors, such as Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure, Gratian, and Thomas Aquinas.
The manuscript is a miscellany of homiletic and canonistic texts and citations from the Fathers of the Church and later authors, such as Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure, Gratian, and Thomas Aquinas.
Script
cursive
Language
Latin
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