Extent: fols. 89; parchment, illustration; 211 x 147 (163 x 118 [58 column]) mm bound to 224 x 161 mm
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Layout: 2 columns, 29 lines Script: textualis libraria Decoration: Rubrics in red, majuscules heightened with a touch of red, initials of 1- and 2-lines alternately red and blue with pen work, two 4- or 5-line parted red and blue initials with pen decoration (f. 1, f. 73). Decoration: Later illumination in 11 lines on f. 1 in full color on gold ground, depicting God enthroned before a starry sky, with symbols of the four Evangelists at the four corners. Binding: Late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century red velvet over pasteboards, spine with four raised bands. Modern foliation in pencil in Arabic numerals, accompanied by modern pencil quire signatures. Missing the first leaf in the tenth quire and the last two leaves in the twelfth quire. No catchwords, ruled in lead with top and bottom horizontal rules full across on most folios and single full-length vertical bounding lines and intercolumnar lines. Natural edge-gaps and occasional holes to parchment, medieval sewn repairs, modern conservator interventions to damaged leaves, some loss of text due to damage and repairs (f. 1, f. 36, f. 55, f. 89). Some areas of fading or flaking ink. Provenance: Purchased from Les Enluminures, 2022 ff. 1-72v, Sermons in Old French, opening with prologues in Latin and French, followed by French and Latin explanations of the Creed (f. 3r-v), Pater Noster (ff. 3v-6v), and sixty-five sermons for the liturgical year (ff. 6v-69v). This sermon collection represents the earliest complete collection of model sermons addressed to the laity and one of the earliest extant works of French prose. Their longstanding attribution to Maurice de Sully has been debated; Huchet (2020) has argued that they may be by William de Blois. Ff. 73-85v: French translation of the Latin A recension of Descensus Christi ad inferos (ed. Ford, 1973). Ff. 85v-89v: Lettre de Pilate à l'empereur Claude (ed. Fen, 2015). Previous shelfmark: Sermons attributed to Maurice de Sully
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