New York University, Fragment 063, 064, 065, 066

Metadata

DS ID:

DS431

Shelfmark:

Fragment 063, 064, 065, 066

Title:

Sermons
Dominica 20 post festum trinitatis

Author:

John Felton

John Felton WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

s. XV(2); 1450-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Other decoration, ff. 1-4v (2 bifolia): One 2-line initial survives, in blue with red flourishing; 1-line initials within the text washed in yellow; red and blue paragraph marks; some underlining in red, including the marginal notes and some of the running headlines (other running headlines in red ink); rubrics in red surviving only on Fragment 063, recto.
Script, ff. 1-4v (2 bifolia): Secretary but with Anglicana g.
Layout, ff. 1-4v (2 bifolia): 2 columns of 52 lines, fully ruled in lead (but with no center rule between the columns); many marginal notes citing sources of the text.

Former Owner(s):

This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.

Homer Lewis Bartlett WIKIDATA

by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
ff. 1-4v (2 bifolia): Two triangular areas in the lower left sections of the columns on Fragment 066 verso are left blank, as if the parchment had been badly prepared to receive writing (no text missing here, but with shadow from script on the reverse side). Running headlines that propose a different order from the one established here by the library: Fragment 063, "Sermo 54"; Fragment 064 on...
ff. 1-4v: See Rodney M. Thomson, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Wolfeboro, N.H., USA : Published on behalf of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln by D.S. Brewer, 1989) pp. 479-484 for sermons written by John Felton and contained in the Chapter Library's MS 204 with, on p. 484, the sermon that here begins with the rubric on Fragment 063...
Explicit, ff. 1-4v: Amice quomodo huc intrasti non habens vestem nupcialem Mt. 22o. Dicunt doctores quod in cuiuslibet operis principio debemus mittere ad deum oracionem tamquam bonum initium ut ipse sit nobis adiutor. Sed oratio tripliciter impeditur.

Holding Institution:

New York University