[Sermons, etc.]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Sermons, etc.]
Classmark: BC MS 102
Creator(s): John Sintram(Author); Bonaventura Saint, Cardinal (1217-1274)(Other); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)(Other)
Related people: Bonaventura; Hugh
Publication city: [Oxford; Germany ?]
Date(s): [1412 (-1425?)]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (ii, 188 leaves) (1 column, 29-51 lines; frame-ruled)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372707
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
There are 2-line initials in red or the ink of the text.
The pastedowns are from a 12th-century sanctoral of a missal, with the vigil and day of Saint Lawrence on the rear board, and (inverted) Saint Arnulf and the octave of Saint Lawrence on the front board.
Written in cursive book script.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 63-65. See also: D. K. Coveney, 'Johannes Sintram de Herbipoli', in: Speculum, vol. 16, 1941, pp. 336-339, T. C. Petersen, 'Johs. Sintram de Herbipoli in two of his mss', in: Speculum, vol. 20, 1945, pp. 74-83, and J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), pp. 4-5. Copies of all are available for consultation.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-6r Hugh of Saint Victor's treatise De vanitate mundi; ff. 6v-76r Sermons, mainly of the temporale; ff. 76v-82r Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (or The Vision of the Poverello in the Desert of Mt. Alverna) by Saint Bonaventura; f. 82v a drawn hand, with texts beginning 'Meditare' on each finger and on the palm; ff. 83r-182r principally sermons, mainly for saints' days; ff. 184r-188r Indexes to the sermons.
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
Features
Bindings
Contemporary binding of red leather over wooden boards, rebacked, four bands. A central clasp (repaired), a chain of five links attached to the top of the back cover, and a scrap of a label once pasted to the front cover survive.
Provenance
Written by John Sintram, Franciscan friar of Würzburg, Germany, who is known to have been a prolific copyist. An entry on fol. 1r reads (but probably not in Sintram's hand): 'librum istud scripsit Johannes Sinttram de Herbippoli'. An explicit in Sintram's hand at the end of the first text on f. 6r notes that the work was copied in 1412 at Oxford in England. Sintram probably completed the manuscript in the following years, possibly back in Würzburg.
Access and usage
Access
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