Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
Notre Dame/Newberry MS. 7
Theological compendium
Contents:
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Sermons
extent:ff. 1r-32v
incipit:
Exemplum enim dedi uobis ut quoad modus ⁊c.
explicit:
praedicando in Ecclesia
decoration:Five line blue initial with red infill on f. 1r with alternating red and blue three line initials beginning each sermon thereafter.
note:The sermon collection includes texts for Easter, some spring feasts, and saints John the Evangelist, Francis, and Dominic and closely resembles the beginning of the collection found in the Universitätsbibliothek Uppsala. The collection is clearly defective. The Uppsala collection contains about three times as many sermons as the Notre Dame/Newberry manuscript. Several of the sermons bear the same incipit as those of Robert de Sorbon who was active in Paris in the mid thirteenth century.
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On the virtues and vices and sermons
extent: ff 33r-61r
rubric:
De abstinencia
incipit:
Gregorius [rubbing] clamor abstinentiam
explicit:
cum deo patre ⁊ spiritu sancto est honor ⁊ gloria
decoration:2-line alternating red and blue initials at the beginning of each chapter.
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De spiritu et anima
author:pseudo-Augustine
extent:ff. 61r-78r
rubric:
Incipit tractatus de anima
incipit:
Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere
explicit:
sue ⁊ visionis dei. Quem cernere sunt. Explicit libellus de anima
decoration:Two line initials in red and blue at the beginning of the prologue and first two chapters. None thereafter.
note:Four to five leaves of the manuscript are missing with the loss of 6 chapters of text. The manuscript leaves off at chapter 50, omitting the final 15 chapters. The text has been attributed to Alcherus of Clairvaux.
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On wisdom
extent: ff. 78r-82v
incipit:
Sapientia edificavit scilicet domini id est corpus ⁊ animam
explicit:
ut audias legendis
Date of origin:Second half of the 13th century.
Place of origin: Paris, France
Support:
Parchment codex
Foliation:
Numbered in lead in a modern hand in the upper right hand corner of each leaf.
Dimensions:168 mm x 114mm (leaves), 124 mm x 82mm (ruled space)
Collation:18 2-310 44 56 64 (-4) 74 (-4) 8-98 102 11-128 134 Catchwords are present and correct at the end of quires 1, 2, 8, 11, and 12 Catchwords are present and incorrect at the end of quires 3 and 9 Signature marks are present at the end of quires 1 (numbered XXXV) and 9 (XIX) and at the beginning of quires 2 and 3 (XXXVI and XXXVII). Signature marks have clearly been trimmed from quire 13 and possibly from quire 12
Script:Written in a neat gothic parisensis script in three hands. The first hand is responsible for the first text up to f. 32v, the second hand from 33r to 78v, and the third hand for the remainder of the manuscript. The third hand also appears to be responsible for corrections throughout the text from f. 33r on.
Binding:Bound in modern vellum with title written on spine.
Additions:Interlinear corrections and marginal notes and corrections frequent after f. 33r in several contemporary hands.
Provenance: The manuscript is jointly owned with the Newberry Library and shelved at the Newberry as MS. 186.
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