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B.3.32

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Shelfmark B.3.32
Manuscript Title

Sermons (Augustine and others)
Alternative Title

Augustini et Aliorum Sermones.
James Number 111
Century 12th
Physical Description

26 lines to a page. In the Canterbury hand. Fine initials: see contents.
Provenance

Given by Whitgift.

On 1b is a mark ·6· [with a sideways 8 above the 6]: on 5a is ·p·

The book is from Christ Church, Canterbury. It occurs in the catalogue in Edwards, p.124, and in Ingram, no.86. Aug. de agone christiano cum questionibus Orosii 2 fo. set qui perseuerauerit.
Second Folio set qui
Religious House Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine Cathedral Priory (Christ Church)
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 30.5 x 22
Folio 117 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

a4 | i8-iv8 v6 || i8-ix8 x? (four left).
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.3.32/manifest.json
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Contents

On f.1a is
Augustinus de agone Christiano. (Item questiones orosii lxv et reponsiones).
D.I a. G. xius.

On f.1b is a list (late) of the Questiones of Orosius and an early table of contents, headed Hec continentur in hoc uolumine. Also these lines in the original hand.
Seruus thiodricus (over the line thidericus) dominis me scripsit amicus.
Pro quo dic lector. sibi parce deus pie rector
Huic et parce deus qui sic fuerit memor eius.

1. f.1(2) Sermo B. Augustini de aduentu Domini (lvii. 843)
Propitia diuinitate.

2. f.2(3) Eiusdem unde supra
Sanctam ac desiderabilem.
f.3(4)b is blank.

II. 3. Hand and vellum change. A fine initial of buff, green, blue, and purple.
f.5 Inc. liber b. Aug. Ep. et Doct. eximii de agone christiano (xl. 289)

4. f.17b Inc. questiones lxv orosii presbiteri et totidem responsiones b. Aug. Ep. (xl. 733)
Initial of plaited work, uncoloured.

5. f.38b Sermo B. Aug. Ep. in natiuitate domini (xxxix. 1977)
Rogo uos fratres karissimi ut libente animo.

III. 6. Initial of red, blue and purple mainly, with four animals (white and green and white quadrupeds) and interlaced work.
f.42 Sermo b. Maximi Ep. ante Natale domini (lvii. 221)
Letitia quanta sit.

7. f.44 Sermo b. Petri Ep. de natali domini (lii. 596)
Hodie fratres esternum debemus.

8. f.46 Unde supra
In aduentu domini et salvatoris.

9. f.47b Sermo b. Faustini de natali domini (xxxix. 1982)
Legimus et fideliter retinemus.

10. f.50 Sermo b. Aug. Ep. de S. Stephano (xxxix. 2145)
Good initial: on a purple ground a human figure among branches. The letter mostly blue, red, and white.
Fratres karissimi celebrauimus hesterno.

11. f.53 Sermo Eusebii cariensis (sic) Ep. de S. Stephano (Bibl. Max. P.P. Lyons, vi. 621)
Satis notum est beatos martires.

12. f.55b Unde supra (xxxviii. 1435)
Martyr Stephanus beatus.

13. f.57b Unde supra (Mai, Nova P.P. Bibl. i. 241)
Hesterno die natalem habuimus.

14. f.58 Unde supra (xxxviii. 1440 or xxxix. 2141)
Donet mihi dominus pauca salubriter dicere.

15. f.59b Unde supra (lvii. 905)
Inter purpureos martyrum choros.

16. f.61 Sermo b. Petri Ep. de S. Stephano (lii. 608)
Sicut dominum prediorum semper liminibus.

17. f.62 Sermo b. Petri Rauennatis Ep. de Herode et infantibus (ib. 609)
Zelus quo tendat.

18. f.64 Unde supra (ib. 607)
Fratres humani sensus non est.

19. f.64b Unde supra (Mai, 1.c. 339)
Admoniti sunt magi.

20. f.66 Sermo b. Petri Rauenn. Ep. de fuga domini in Egiptum (lii. 599)
Si conceptum uirginis.

21. f.68b Sermo unde supra (ib. 602)
Hodierna lectio mouit corda.

22. f.70b Inc. Sermones de Resurrectione domini (lvii. 363)
Magnum et mirabile pasce.

23. f.74b Item sermo in pascha (lxvii. 1047)
Hodierni diei sacrosancta solennitas.

24. f.77 Unde supra (lviii. 877)
Opportune et congrue.

25. f.80 Sermo Isidori ep. de copore (sic) et sanguine domini (lxxxiii. 1225)
Magnitude celestium beneficiorum.

26. f.84b Item sermo de Pasha (!) (B.H.P.P. vii. 637)
Bene nouimus primum esse.

27. f.87 Unde supra (ib. 638)
Dies hec fr. kar. si bene perspicimus.

28. f.89 Unde supra (ib. 641)
Resurrectio d. n. carissimi.

29. f.93 Sermo unde supra (ib. 639)
Festiuitates iste carissimi.

30. f.95 Sermo de latrone beato cum domino crucifixo (ib. 644)
Deus erat in Christo mundum reconcilians.

31. f.99b Sermone de ascensione domini (ib. 647)
Scire debemus caussam.

32. f.103b Sermo in pentecosten (ib. 649)
Hec dicit dominus. In diebus illis effundam.

33. f.106 Sermo in Nat. S. Laurentii martiris (xxxviii. 1393)
B. Laurentii illustre martyrium.

34. f.107b Unde supra sermo Leonis papae (xxxix. 2128: lxvii. 695)
Cum omnes beatos martyres.

35. f.109 Sermo b. Ieronimi de Nativitate dei genitricis semper virginis Marie (lxvii. 867: xcvi. 267)
Celebritas hodierne diei admonet.

36. f.111 Sermo de S. Stephano et de diligendis inimicis (Mai, 1.c. 448)
Quotiens caritatem uestram.

37. f.112 Sermo b. Aug. Ep. in Epiphania domini. (This rubric in minuscules) (Combefis Bibl. Concion. ii. 30)
Post miraculum uirginei partus.
38. f.114b Sermo Aug. ad clericos suos: so the table of contents. (xxxix. 1574)
Caritati uestre hodie.
Ends with f.117(118). Ecce dico · audistis · audiuntur.

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