Priest's book (Lections, Epistles, sermons) : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Priest's book (Lections, Epistles, sermons) : in Latin
Description:
A portable book for the use of a priest with extensive marginal and interlinear additions.
Date:
[1480–1520]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
Gothic scripts
Marginalia
Numbers (Provenance)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Sermons, Medieval
Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
Catholic Church--Germany--Sermons--Early works to 1800
Catholic Church--Germany--Liturgy--Early works to 1800
Places:
Germany
Extent:
114 leaves : paper ; 156 x 107 (99 x 62) mm bound to 16 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8910t0179
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Germany]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: early liturgical addition, incipit faded.
2. fol. 1v: blank.
3. fol. 2-73: Lections, Temporale.
4. fol. 73v-76v: Sermons, for a Sunday and for Pentecost.
5. fol. 77-77v: Lections, feriae ii and iii after Pentecost.
6. fol. 78-113: Epistolary readings and sermons, beginning with Quadragesima.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Germany in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...et notam...
Collation: Paper, with watermark: three peaks surmounted by a cross, similar to Piccard 151579 (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1480) ; fol. i (modern paper endleaf) + 114 + i (modern paper endleaf) ; bound too tightly to collate, but with partial leaves tipped-in before fol. 5, 43 and 51 and lacking two leaves, presumably cancelled, before fol. 114. Occasional modern pencil arabic foliation.
Layout: 1 column, 10 lines, with wide margins and inter-linear space for additions and commentary. Bounding lines in black ink, doubled and full-length.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line red initials throughout.
Binding: 19th-century patterned paste-paper over pasteboards, tan laid paper pastedowns with conjugate flyleaves at front and back.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018736
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.257
Barcode:
39999090789627