Bod-Inc: B-189
Bernardus Claravallensis
Sermones de tempore et de sanctis [Dutch].
Analysis of Content
[*2r] ‘Die tafele van sinte Bernardus sermonen van dat winter stuck'.
[*2v] ‘Die tafel van den somerstucke van sinte Bernardus sermonen'.
a1r [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘[H]ier beghint dat boeck van sinte Bernaerdus sermonen . . .’
a1r Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis [Dutch]. [Part I: winter.] Incipit: ‘[T]is soe ingeset van den heyligen vaders, dat men die sonderlinghe grote hoechtiden voercomen sal mit ynnighen vasten . . .’ For the manuscript tradition see J. Deschamps, Middelnederlandse Handschriften uit Europese en Amerikaanse Bibliotheken (Leiden, 1971), 254-6 no. 92 and J. van Mierlo, ‘De heilige Bernardus in de Middelnederlandse letterkunde', Ons Geestelijk Erf, 27 (1953), 230-58, at 241-2.
A1r [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘[H]ier beghint dat somerstuck van sinte Bernardus sermonen . . .’
A1r Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis [Dutch]. [Part II: summer.] Incipit: ‘[D]ie leeu van Iudas geslachte heeft verwonnen . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Zwolle: Pieter van Os, 27 May 1495. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a–y A–G6 H4 I K6 L4 M–Y 2A6 B4 C6. Leaf [*2] signed I.
Illustrations: 27 woodcuts, three woodcut borders.
References
ISTC: ib00435000
GW: GW 3948;
Hain: HCR 2854;
Goff: Goff B‑435;
BMC: BMC IX 88;
Proctor: Pr 9145;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑318; Campbell 276; CIBN B‑269; HPT II 450; ILC 391; Oates 3618-19; Schäfer 43; Sheppard 7010-11.
LCN: 14005492
Copies
Copy number: B-189(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch half calf; floral tooling on spine; edges red; endpapers watermarked ‘J. Honig & Zoonen'; see H. Vorn, De papiermolens in de provincie Nord-Holland (Haarlem, 1960), for example I 123.
Size: 265 × 205 × 50 mm.
Size of leaf: 258 × 190 mm.
On [*1r] prayer in an early Dutch hand: ‘OO suuer ioncfrouwe Maria, weest mijn voersprecster altijt. O mechdelicke vrouwe, deelt mij mede van dijnre gracien. O fonteijn der genaden, veruolt die armoede mijnre sielen mit die volheit dijnre liefden. O solaes mijnre herten, sterct mij in allen dochden doer die menichuoldicheit dijnre sedelicker manieren. O'.
The woodcuts partly coloured in yellow, green, and blue, and labelled in red or ink. On a1r, A1r, and occasionally elsewhere, initials are supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, and pen-work infill and frame in red, touched with light green wash; principal initials are supplied in red with some pen-flourishing; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Inscription on2 C6r: ‘Dit boeck hoert heer Symon Jansz[oon] alias Meyssen' in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 154.
Copy number: B-189(2)
Bound with:
2. Otto von Passau, Boeck des gulden throens. Haarlem: Jacob Bellaert, 25 Oct. 1484 (O‑026(1)).
Wanting [*1] (the title, with woodcut).
Binding: Sixteenth-century (Dutch?) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two metal clasps and catches; much worn. On both covers fillets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by fillets into triangular compartments. In the inner frame an unidentified round stamp; in the outer frame two concentric borders of cresting.
Size: 293 × 205 × 72 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 190 mm.
Decoration from the Ijsselstreek; see Aafje B. Lem and Lydia S. Wierda, ‘De Ijsselstreek', Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen, Randversiering in Nordneederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende eeuw, ed. A. S. Korteweg (Zutphen, 1992), 116-29. On a1r, A1r and, occasionally, elsewhere initials are supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, pen-work infill and a frame in red; principal initials are supplied in red with some pen-flourishing; other initials are supplied in red or blue, paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1851), 8.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.43(1).
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