SERMONES
Vellum, 8.25 x 5.5, ff. 112, 35, 34 and 29 lines to a page. 15th cent., in three or four good hands.
Ex dono Mag. Gent.
Collation : 18 – 98 108 | 118 128 (wants 7) 138 148 (wants 4) 158 (wants 3-6?).
Contents:
I. Sermon on the Sunday Gospels after Trinity.
Dominica prima post festum S. Trinitatis Luc. 27(!).
Homo quidam erat diues . Crist seide to his disciplis in
parable to undirstonde what it is to mene a parable is a word
of story, etc.
Ends 78b (on Dom. 25) : blissid and worschipid mote he ben.
Amen.
II. Sermons on the Gospels.
Begins imperfectly apparently on first or second Sunday after
Epiphany . . . . . . f. 79
The first complete sermon is Cum descendisset Ihesus de monte
Matheu. viii.
{TH}is gospel tellith of two miraclis {th}at crist dide and conteyne{th}
meche wit.
Ends in Whitsuntide (imperfectly) : on Erat home ex phariseis
Jon. iiio. {th}is gospel undir a storye telleth of ye trenyte.
Arnold, Select English works of Wycliffe, I, p. xx (and p. iii)
calls this copy S. Part I contains Sermons not by Wycliffe.
Given by John Gent (d. 1651), BA St John's College 1625-6, Rector of Birdbrook, Essex, 1632-51.
A. Hudson, 'Contributions to a Bibliography of Wycliffite Writings', Notes and Queries 228 (1973), 443-53.
A. Hudson (ed.), English Wycliffite Sermons (Oxford, 1983).
H. Leith Spencer, English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Oxford, 1993) pp. 224, 280-4, 405 n. 132, 455 n. 112, 472 n. 22.
See A Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons