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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6472

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 188

Title:

Miscellany of sermons] /

Sermons

Author:

Caesarius, of Arles, Saint, 470?-542

Caesarius of Arles WIKIDATA

Eucherius, of Lyon, Saint, -449?

Eucherius of Lyon WIKIDATA

Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340

Eusebius of Caesarea WIKIDATA

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141

Hugh of Saint Victor WIKIDATA

Benedict XII, Pope, -1342

Benedict XII WIKIDATA

Urban V, Pope, 1310-1370

Urban V WIKIDATA

Faustus, of Riez, active 5th century

Faustus of Riez WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 213 : parchment ; 128 x 90 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Created during the pinnacle of Avignon's historical importance, this small miscellany of texts with various sermons features whimiscal drawings in its margins. The marginal ink drawings, all carefully colored, include decorated pointed hands (maniculae) with elaborate sleeves, angels, lions, and a man in a boat. The texts gathered include sermons and monastic rules and the commentaries, which...
Binding: Eighteenth-century binding of smooth taw leather over cardboard with three sewing supports, green and white endbands, label in brown ink at head of spine reading "Semon | es Sancti | Ca'sarij," imports and holes remaining on front and back cover from two ties, traces of which are visible through paper pastedowns, paper bookplot in inner pastedown of the Bibliotheque du...
Collation: [original first gathering missing] i8 [-1 through 5, first five leaves missing with text loss], ii8, iii8 [-8, final folio cancelled with no text loss], iv-xxii8, xxiii7 [structure uncertain, no text loss], xxiv, xxv-xxvii8.
Decoration: Majuscules, letter ascenders and descenders are flourished and washed in yellow throughout. Paraphs marks in blue. Rubics in red. Numberous 2-to-8-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes. 6-line parted red and blue initial with pen decoration (f. 92v). One initial in brown holds the face of a young monk (f. 28r). Catchwords, most in banderoles, in...
Marginalia: Many small marginal drawings which include maniculae extending from sleeves of red, blue, and yellow, often reaching from twinkling clouds and holding flowers, vines, or banderoles containing notae or catchwords. Other miniatures, some also holding notae and catchwords, are of rosy-cheeked angels with yellow hair and their garments, halos, and wings highlighted in red, blue...
Script: Text written in 17-21 long lines on ff. 1-184 and 16-19 long lines on ff. 184v-213v by several contemporary scribes in a compact script, except ff. 184v-213v in a larger and freer hand, all in a skilled French cursive tending towards lettre batarde featuring documentary-style flourishing in bottom, outer, and occasionallly upper margins. Frame ruling in faint graphite with bounding...
Written in several hands at the end of the 14th century or beginning of the 15th century in southern France, possibly Avignon, as suggested by the style of the initials, and to a lesser extend the script, which features some elements borrowed from the Papal Chancery, then in Avignon. Datable between 1369 (it includes a papal bull by Urban V (r. 1362-70) issued on 4 April 1369) and ca. 1400...

Keyword:

Papal documents

Sermons

decorated initials

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Michigan--Kalamazoo

Bible

Commentaries

Early works

Caesarius, of Arles, Saint, 470?-542

Excerpts

Regula (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

France

Fifteenth century

Sermons, Latin

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21366636370002436

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Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University