SERMONES
Vellum, 5 x 3.5, ff. 290 + 6, 21 lines to a page. 13th, 14th cent., well written.
Donor, T. Baker. ex dono ornatissimi viri Zach. Grey.
Collation : a6, 114 212 – 2412.
Contents:
List of Sermons on the
flyleaves.
A note partly in French at
the end, and a multiplication table with Arabic
numerals from 1 to 10.
Sermones per annum.
Rex tuus uenit. mt.
xix. Karissimi captiuorum liberator
olim.
The last is on Uere dominus
est in loco isto gen. 28.
The Sanctoral begins on p.
269. It includes Thomas of Canterbury,
‘Doctor
Antonius,’ Translation of St Francis, Anthony, Francis, Edmund
(of Canterbury).
After All Saints are some
supplementary sermons belonging to the Proper of
Time. The last of all are
on the Dedication of the Church.
The collection is apparently
Franciscan. English words and phrases
are of fairly
frequent occurence.
J. B. Schneyer, Repertorium der Lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters Vol. 7 (Münster, Westfalen, 1976), p. 202.