Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones de beata virgine; Sermon on the Trinity

Germany?, 15th century

paper

i, 152, i' leaves

295 × 205 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1ra–145ra) Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones de beata Virgine

Rubric: Incipit speculum de beata virgine Iacobi de voragine

Incipit: ⟨A⟩Bstinecia multipliciter fuit in beatissima maria virgine gloriosa

Explicit: Illa tamen licet specialiter designatur que materna transfixit uiscera domino in cruce moriente Deo gracias laus deo

Note: No modern edition of the text exists. It was printed in Paris 1503.

2 (ff. 145va–147rb) Sermon on the Trinity

Rubric: Sermo de trinitate bonus

Incipit: Amen amen dico tibi quia quod scimus loquimur (John 3:11) [...] Nos igitur alta sapientibus relinquentes humilia et plana dicamus

Explicit: Synodus nycena edidit et sanctus Ieronymus ipsum in fine psalmorum decantandum instituit Rogemus et cetera Laus deo

Note: ff. 147v–151v: guidelines, but not text; f. 152: blank.

Physical Description

Secundo folio

iudicis nostre et mater

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, SL1, SR1, RCI

Note: Spine-liner in the form of a strip of paper with text visible underneath the pastedowns.

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 295 × 205 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. SL1/SR1,

Motif: Bunch of grapes, above band with the letters PH?.

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–152

Support: Western paper

Leaf dimensions: 295 × 205 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 1–40,

Motif: Unidentified motif.

Watermark 2

Locus: ff. 41–152,

Motif: Mountain with three coupaux, on top double line rod with cross.

Note: Similar to Piccard XVI:2, VII, 2415.

Foliation

Medieval foliation with Arabic numerals in ink. In places where the medieval numerals could cause confusion an early-modern or modern hand has added foliation above the medieval (e.g. ff. 40–59).

Chapter numbers in red ink in the upper margin, only in some sections of the manuscript.

Collation

Formula: 1-14(10), 15(12)

Note: VisColl collation

Signatures: Quire signatures partially visible at the beginning of each new quire.

Catchwords: Catchwords visible on quires 12-14. The rest lost due to trimming.

Condition

Textblock

Minor staining throughout. f. 1 has a contemporary repair in the inner margin.

Layout

Columns: 2

Written lines: 43–47

Written area: 215 × 135 mm

Note: Guidelines in lead.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Gothic hybrida.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(f. SL1r) Upper part of page, in brown ink by a 19th century hand: ‘Jacobi de Voragine Speculum de Beata Virgine (Sermones CLI.)’; centre page: National Library stamp.

Textblock

(f. 1r) Bottom of page, in brown ink by an early modern hand: ‘Alexander Pauli filius Petauius senator Parisiensis 1649’.

(ff. 1v–146r) Copious marginal additions by several hands. Examples: On (f. 2v) there are Bible references in the same ink as the main text and corrections in a darker ink, both appear to be by the scribe or a contemporary hand. This type of additions appear throughout the entire manuscript. From (f. 4v) on additions by an early modern hand start to appear. From (ff. 64v–128v) on chapter references by a modern hand in pencil.

(f. Note_1r) An note attached by the scribe or a contemporary hand. It contains 8 lines from Jerome's Commentary on Osee (PL, vol. 25, col. 879).

(f. 152v) The entire leaf is covered by two layers of additions. Layer 1: an older medieval hand has written scattered phrases which can be read from two directions, e.g. the phrase ‘lach lieb lach’. Layer 2: a later medieval hand has covered most of the page with references to and excerpts from different books of the Bible and the Church Fathers. The first line of these additions read: ‘Sermo feria 3^a penthecostes Anno domini 1513’.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, pilcrows in red, green, and blue.

Initials:

(ff. 1va–145va): The majority of the sermons are opened by plain initials over 2-3 lines alternating in red and green with flourishing in contrasting colour. Some of the initials feature more complex flourishing, e.g. (f. 109ra) where a face has been drawn in the counterspace (similarily on (f. 145va)). Around ten sermons feature larger plain initials over 5-7 lines, some of these have reserved interior space or complex flourishing, e.g. on (f. 84va). (f. 49rb), (f. 50vb): two puzzle intitials over 3-5 lines in blue and green with red flourishing. (f. 1r): space reserved for intial. The space reserved extends over 8 lines, but above more than half the leaf is left blank, which may indicate further decoration was intended.

Binding

Description:

Early modern binding. Parchment over cardboard. 5 raised bands and endbands. Spine, in ink: ‘SPECVLVM B. VIRGINIS IACOBI DE VORAGINE’; in ink: ‘J. de Voragine ⟨S⟩peculum de beata Virgine’; stamped in gold: ‘A 161’; ink on paper label: ‘N^o 49.’; ink on paper label: ‘e. 30. 5. 8.’; ink on torn paper label: ‘156’.

Binding dimensions: 300 × 220 × 40 mm

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

Germany?, 15th century. The origin and dating is tentatively based on the watermarks. An addition in German on f. 152v (‘lach lieb lach’) also indicates Germany.

Provenance

Early provenance unknown. On f. 152v there is an addition dated to 1513. Later the manuscript was acquired by Paul Petau, whose son Alexandre Petau's signature is found on f. 1r (dated to 1649). The manuscript was acquired from Petau by Queen Christina and brought to Sweden. Of the labels on the Spine, ‘49’ refers to the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e) where it is listed as ‘Theol. in fol. no 49’; ‘e. 30. 5. 8. ’refers to Hammarsköld's catalogue from the 19th century (U 133). The signum ‘156’ has not been identified.