Details

Other Title:

Expositio passiones dominicae

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Sermons, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, Latin.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Begins with a quotation from John 13:4. Sermons based upon the Last Supper and Passover vigil, including citations from a variety of authors, including Nicolaus Tinkisbogil (i.e., Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl; f. 12v), Alchabitus (f. 13r), Ganfredus (f. 18r), and the Revelations of St. Bridget (f. 63r). There is a cursive brief of sermo de passione (f. 74r), and medical recipes (f. 74v) (Zacour-Hirsch).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Alternate title from 19th-century description (f. ii recto).
Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 74 + i (modern paper); [1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 35 lines, with vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script, with later notes in another hand (f. 74r-74v).
Decoration: Ink sketch of an initial S with flourishes (f. 1r); ink sketches of initials H and A with flourishes (f. 37v and 38r); small ink sketch of man, possibly in Roman garb, holding large sword attacking what could be a monster or wild animal (f. 62v); small manicules in margins throughout. There are many spaces for missing initials throughout.
Binding: 19th-century boards.
Origin: Written in Germany, ca. 1420.
Incipit: Surgit a coena et ponit vestimenta sua (f. 1r). Explicit: ...qui pro nobis passus sit nobis via in vitam aeternam (f. 74r).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Richard W. Foster (sold by R. Wolfle, Munich), 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1965) p. 15 (Ms. Latin 233).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1203

Contains:

Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373. Revelationes. Selections

OCLC:

232610159