Leaves [45]-[46] contain a series of short verses, each with titles such as "Juvenalio", "Plato", "Aristoteles", "Salustrio", "Solomon", "Macrobius", "Socrates", "David", "Thobias", "Origenes" and "Seneca". Verso of leaf [46] is signed "Fr[atr]i Joha[n]ni Bouchardi", whose name also appears on verso of last leaf. Text of sermons in brown ink, in several different hands; some unadorned, others contain large initials in red, one with grotesque head and ornamentation in brown; some paragraph marks, underlining, line fillers, and instructions in red; some sermons lightly ruled in brown. Bound with [76] ms. leaves are [20] printed leaves containing sermons by Olivier Maillard: "Passio[nis] d[omi]ni n[ost]ri Jesu Christi" from his Sermones quadragesimales, printed by Antoine Caillaut in Paris, 1498 (cf. colophon on verso of leaf x5 of printed sequence, and BMC 15th cent. 8:53); and "De iusticia" (gathering A6; 45 lines per page), from his Sermones de aduentu (cf. BMC 15th cent... Signatures of printed leaves: v8 x6 A6. Ms. marginal annotations on printed leaves. Bookplate of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead. Laid in: small playing card of eight of spades (80 x 54 mm.) with ms. note in French on verso in an 18th-century [?] hand: "Sermones e manuscrits et imprimés d'Olivier Maillard et de Jacques de Lenda, les derniers imprimés l'an 1499."
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