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B.15.2

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Shelfmark B.15.2
Manuscript Title

Nicholas de Gorran, Sermones de tempore etc
Alternative Title

Themata Super Epistolas et Euangelia etc
James Number 339
Century 14th15th
Physical Description

I. Double columns of 60-64 lines. Two hands. II. Four and three columns on a page.
Provenance

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On the fly-leaf is stuck a label of early xvith or late xvth cent. formerly on the binding. diuisiones thematum super epistolas et euangelia. dominicaliacum aliis 2o. fo. miam et Bracebr(idge). Cf. St John's College, I. II, which has a similar label with the same name. Both books belonged to Syon Monastery. See Miss Bateson's edition of the Catalogue of that Library, pp. xvii., xviii. On the fly-leaf is also Liber Petri Le Neve. On the edge of f.55 are the names (xvi) Richard Irelame.Richard Johnson.
Second Folio misericordiam et
Religious House Syon, Middlesex, Bridgettine Abbey
Size (cm) 36.5 x 25
Folio 163 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

Collation : 1 fly-leaf a12-d12 e16 f12-i12 (wants 12 blank) || k12-n12 o4.
Notes

No ff.111 or 113.
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Contents

I.

1. f.1 Themata super Epistolas et Euangelia dominicalia per annum
Dom. 1. aduentus domini.
Hora est iam nos etc. Sicut dicit sapiens. Ecc. 13o omnia tempus habent.
Among the Saints commemorated are
Petrus de Mediolano Martir.
Geruasius et Protasius.
Dominic.
Maurice.
Francis.
Denis.
Ends with a series of 45 themata de penitencia followed by two de sepultura mortuorum.
The last
Beati qui per portas intrant (in) ciuitatem.
2. f.58b Table
f.64 blank.
3. f.65 Themata de Sanctis
De S. Sebastiano
Uacillantes confirmauerunt manus tue Job iiii.
De S. Sebastiano legitur quod sub habitu militari.
Agnes, Vincent, Conv. of Paul, Purification, Agatha, Chair of Peter, Matthias, Gregory, Benedict, Lady day, Ambrose.
George, Mark, Peter Martyr.
The Sanctoral is identical with that in Part I.
The Common of Saints follows, ending with
Unius virginis.
Omnium dominus dilexit eam. pl. vii.
ff.109b, 110 blank.

II.

In another hand, four and three columns on a page.
1. ff.114 Concordantiae Bibliae
Incipiunt concordantie biblie distincte per quinque libros. primus liber agit de hiis que pertinent ad depriuacionem primi hominis cum suis oppositis cuius IIIIor sunt partes . prima est de peccato et eius effectibus . secunda de septem viciis principalibus et eorum rubricis . tercia est de viciis oris et suis rubricus et eorum oppositis . quarta est de predictis viciis coniunctim multiplicatis et eorum oppositis.
Prima pars primi libri inc. de peccato et eius effectubus.
The analysis of the book is continued until f.116b.
Text begins f.117
i. contra peccatum simpliciter.
Job. xxvi. e . ostetricauit manu eius.
Ends f.150(149)
d xxv. quod per dilectionem dei debemus ad contemplacionem subleuari.
Explicit etc.
f.150b blank.
1. In the same hand.
f.151 Sermones Augustini ad fratres suos in eremo
Quando christus sit querendus et ubi c.i.
Audistis fratres karissimi sanctissimos reges.
In 25 chapters followed by a list.
Expl. sermones b. Aug. ep. morales ad fratres suos in heremo (P.L. xl. 1317).
Hic inc. tabula sermonum et capitulorum precedencium.
1 as above.
25 de fortitudine constancie in tribulacionibus.
Expl. tabula etc. etc.
f.163b is blank.

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

Gillespie, V.,and A. I. Doyle, ed., Syon Abbey, with The Libraries of the Carthusians, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 9 (London, 2001), SS1.708

de Hamel, C., Syon Abbey : the library of the Bridgettine nuns and their peregrinations after the Reformation (Roxburghe Club, 1991)

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