Lot 57

Cordulus and others, Sermons, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [France, early thirteenth century]

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Vellum

66 leaves, 145mm. by 100mm., complete, collation: i^{10, ii-viii^{8, single column, 23-25 lines in dark brown ink in several tiny early gothic hands, rubrics in red, 3-line initials in red,}}large initial (5-line) in red with contrasting penwork extensions into two margins on fol.11r, first leaf discoloured, small stains throughout, else good condition, pastedowns from fifteenth-century Latin manuscript, eighteenth-century calf over pasteboards, front board slightly bowed

Provenance

provenance

1. Frater Johannes, an Augustinian friar: his fifteenth-century inscription on fol.66v, "Iste liber est fratris Johannis de ord Sancti Augustini pac' ordinis sancti augustini".

2. Joseph Fabert: his eighteenth-century ownership inscription on fol.1r, with another inscription on a front endleaf reading, "Ex Museo Josephi de Fabert D.M. 1782".

3. Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris.

4. Bergendal MS.122; bought by Joseph Pope from Les Enluminures: Bergendal catalogue no.122.

Catalogue Note

text

The manuscript comprises: fourteen prayers of devotion to be said before or after receiving Holy Communion (fol.1r), with an indulgence issued by Pope Innocent IV added to fol.7v; Sermons for the whole year (fol.11r), opening "Cum appropinquasset Jesus ...", recorded by Schneyer, Lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, 1978, VIII:597-600 and VII:604-11, and ascribed to Cordulus on the basis of two manuscripts: Berlin, SB. lat.qu.609 and Munich, Clm.16036. Other sermons added in margins.