Sermons (fragment)

Sweden, Vadstena, 1505

Paper

12 leaves

225 × 160 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1r–11r) Sermon, Pentecost

Rubric: in die pentecostes 1505

Incipit: Ad eum venimus et mansionem apud eum faciemus iohannes 14 karissimi postquam dominus noster ihesus christus cum discipulis suis cenauit et pedes eorum cum maxima humiliate lauit

Explicit: celebrando missam de sancta trinitate et colligant pauperes lauentque humiliter pedes eorum

2 (ff. 11r–12v) Sermon, Fourth Sunday of Advent

Rubric: Dominica 4a adventus ewangelium

Incipit: Miserunt iudei ab iherosolimis sacerdotes iohannis primo luce 3o Historia huius ewangelii facta est anno Christi 31

Explicit: Videre autem eam sicuti est perfecta et summa felicitas est

3 (f. 12v) Sermon on Saint Lawrence

Rubric: de sancto laurencio

Incipit: Refert sanctus gregorius in 3o libro dyalogorum quod in sabina quedam sanctimonialis fuit que carnis quidem continenciam habuit

Explicit: Vnde confusus decius dixit puto quod iam victi sumus et cetera d 49 [mut.]

Physical Description

Secundo folio

michi huius

Support

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–12

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 5–8,

Note: Unidentified watermark with flower-like shape.

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 225 × 160 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Contemporary foliation in ink on the verso: ‘d 14 - d 25 ’(‘d 14’ on both recto and verso).

Layout

Locus: ff. 1r–12v

Columns: 1

Written lines: 36–41

Written area: 170 × 120 mm

Note: Pricking in the margins. Guidelines in brown ink.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Gothic cursive. Letter L without loops on the ascender. Probably written by Michael Nicolai, monk in Vadstena 1487-1516, see Hedlund (1980), p. 45, n. 26.

Additions

Textblock

(f. 1r) Lower margin in blue crayon by G.E. Klemming: ‘Postilla 1505’

(ff. 2r–12v) Additions and corrections in the margins in black ink by the scribe or a contemporary hand in the form of numbers, single words, and short phrases.

(ff. S1Ar–S1Av) Loose paper slip, 175x25 mm. Text by two different medieval hands. (f. S1Ar):‘ In quacumque hora peccator ingemuerit salus erit ezechiel prima misit deus uerbum suum et sanauit eum et cetera aureis litteris psalmus’; (f. S1Av): ‘In illo tempore dixit ihesus discipulis suis Cum uenerit paraclitus quam ego mittam uobis [...] ego dixi uobis.’

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text written in black ink, text references underlined in red, capitals touched in red.

Initials:

(ff. 1r–11r): Plain initials in red over 2 lines.

Binding

Description:

Wrapped in modern paper.

Binding dimensions: 235 × 175 × 10 mm

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

Sweden, Vadstena, 1505. Monica Hedund argues that the text was probably written by Michael Nicolai, monk in Vadstena 1487-1516, see Hedlund (1980), p. 45, n. 26.