Layout: 1 column, 25-33 lines Script: German Gothic currens hand. Decoration: Initials and rubrication in red ink. Binding: Original parchment-covered wood boards, heavily wormed, both covers detached. Early vellum label on front board not deciphered. Binding: Boards lined with strips of an earlier Latin manuscript on vellum, visible on rear board where pastedown is detached. Remnants of metal staple, once used to attach a chain, on rear board. Remnant of a single clasp, now missing, on rear board. Leaves 64-66 skipped in numbering sequence. Watermark description: Fauna / Ox head / free, with upper symbol / with single-contoured bar / star (single-contoured) / six-pointed (ends straight) / without further symbol / with eyes and nostrils / without circle on forehead / eyes with connecting lines (from Watermarks of the Middle Ages project at wzma.at). Watermarks of this motif were common in west central and southwestern Germany, particularly in the first half of the fifteenth century. Provenance: Gift of Nathaniel Huggins Jr., 2014. Provenance: Chained binding probably indicates early ownership in a religious institution (monastery, etc.). Text is the Lenten Sermons, or Sermones Quadragsimales of Jacobus de Voragine. This group of Lenten sermons has also been attributed to Antonius de Parma (Sankt Florian) and Luca de Bitonto. The group of sermons was particularly popular in Central Europe. Scholars typically agree that, if written by Voragine, the collection was first compiled before 1286. Incipit: “Conp(ar)at(us) sum luto (et) assi(mi)latus sum fauille et cineri. Iob xxxio”. Marginal annotations in a variety of late medieval hands, indicating use.
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