Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Sermons, Latin.
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500.
English poetry.
English poetry -- Middle English.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Summary:

57 sermons for Sundays and feast days, arranged according to the liturgical calendar, with an alphabetical subject index (f. 182r-188r); Sermon, "De cruce," (f. 189r-v) in a second hand, explicit: Gregorius libro primo et quarto de pharetra, with a second table of contents (f. 190r-v). Also includes Middle English poem of 16 lines, beginning, "I ham as I ham and so will I be..." added in a later hand (f. iii recto).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Latin, with a poem in Middle English.
Title, attribution, and date supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Penuria studentium in materia morali paupertasque juvenum qui copia privantur librorum...
Foliation: Paper, 194; [iv], [1-190]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 36 long lines; ruled in ink; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a semi-cursive Gothic script in a single hand, except for f. 189r-190v in a second hand.
Decoration: 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation and extensive rubrication throughout.
Binding: Modern leather.
Origin: Written in England, possibly Oxford, ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Felton's sermons exist in the following mss., Royal Ms. 8 BXII, Harleianen Mss. 537, 1327, 4238, Oxford, University College LXV, New College CCCV.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by James P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Sir William Henry Ingilby at auction at Sotheby's, 21 Oct. 1920, lot 153, to Maggs Bros.; appears in Maggs catalog 404 (1921), lot 15.
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 61.
Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 8 (Ms. Latin 35).
On four preliminary folios see J. Morford, Library Chronicle 25 (1959) pp. 80-83.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 680

Contributor:

Ingilby, William Henry, Sir, 1874-1952, former owner.
Lyell, James P. R. (James Patrick Ronaldson), 1871-1948, former owner.

Contains:

I ham as I ham and so will I be.

OCLC:

155985380