Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent
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| Format: | Electronic Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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[Tours?]
[publisher not identified]
[ca. 975-1000]
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| In: | Year: 0975 |
| Further subjects: | B
Handwriting
B Sermons, Latin Early works to 1800 B Language and literature B Homiliaries Early works to 1800 (France) |
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| Item Description: | Bergendal MS 50. Manuscript in Latin on vellum. 91 folios collating 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-11, 12, 13². Page size 320 x 255 mm with a writing space of 250 x 190 mm. Two columns each of 250 x 85 mm with 37 lines. Written by at least three scribes above the top line in dark brown ink in fine Caroline minuscule script. Many two line intials in red. One 18 line initial in dark brown with interlace and ornamental penwork on folio 1r. Many headings and intials in red uncial lettering. Foliated in pencil in a late 20th century hand. Ruled in blind with vertical bounding lines running from top to bottom of page. There are two vertical bounding lines on each side of writing space about 9 mm apart. Occasional guiding pricks survive at top of page. Guiding lines run inside the vertical lines. Sections are not numbered and catchwords have not survived. - St. Heiric (Eric) of Auxerre, a Benedictine, composed this book of homilies around the years 865-870. He was a student of Lupus of Ferrière, John Scotus Erigena, and Haymo of Auxerre. In turn, he was the teacher of Remigius of Auxerre. This manuscript is a copy then of a homiliary done less than a century before. It is the oldest copy known to exist. The second oldest extant copy, which derived from MS 50, is in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale under shelf mark nouvelles acquisitions latines 464. It is dated c.1150. In a manner of speaking, this copy is a relatively recent discovery which is only just becoming known to students of homilaries in general and St. Heiric in particular. For many years the manuscript was virtually unknown, existing as it did in the Phillips collection in complete and utter disorder |
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