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Michael de Hungaria

Sermones praedicabiles, et al. [Latin and English].

 

Analysis of Content

A2r [Table of contents.]

B2r [Introduction about the work.] Incipit: ‘[S]equitur humiliat dominus filius voca seruit stans moritur diligit venit ambula surge resurge. [I]ntentio magistri Michaelis de Vngaria autoris huius operis in hiis duobus uersibus est ista . . .’ Explicit: tabulam que supra posita est

B2r Michael de Hungaria: Sermones praedicabiles. ‘Sermones tredecim uniuersales'. Incipit: ‘[S]equitur. Carissimi dicit doctor Nicolaus de Lira super viii capitulo Mathei quod quinque de causis iudei sequebantur Christum. A. Nam aliqui sequebantur Christum . . .’ Other sermons begin: (ii) ‘[H]umiliari. Carissimi dicit beatus Hieronimus in epistola sua ad Paulinum quod predicator uerbi Dei humiliter premittere . . .ad quam perducat'; (iii) ‘[D]ominus. Inuenio in sacra scriptura i. Regum vii quod quando populus Domini circumuallatus fuit cum Philistiis . . .quam nobis concedat, etc.'; (iv) ‘[F]ilius. A. Carissimi in principio huius sermonis premittenda est oratio . . .qui sine fine, etc.'; (v) ‘[V]ocari. Carissimi habentur Jone. i quom Jonas q*n fuit cum nautis omnes . . .quam nobis concedat, etc.'; (vi) ‘[S]eruire. Karissimi predicator uerbi Dei seruo potest comparari propter diuersas rationes . . .Deus concedat omnipotens'; (vii) ‘[S]tare. Karissimi dicitur Gregorius super Ezechielem omelia ii quod est de predicatore uerbi . . .possideamus eternam. Amen'; (viii) ‘[M]uri. Karissimi dicit beatus Augustinus tercio libro de libero arbitrio ca. x, quod maius miraculum est hominem suscitare a spirituali morte ad uitam . . .eternam quam nobis, etc.'; (ix) ‘[M]uritur Christus pro processu sermonis est breuiter notandum quod mors Christi . . .'; (x) ‘[D]iligere. Karissimi intelligere debetis quod nullum uerbum prolatum ab ore predicatoris sine caritate . . .uiuit et regnat. Amen'; (xi) ‘[V]enire. Karissimi dicit beatus Augustinus quod tria genera hominum ueniunt ad sermonem. A. Aliqui enim ueniunt qui non delectantur audire . . .nos product, etc.'; (xii) ‘[A]mbulare. Carissimi doctores dicunt quod uia principalis per quam ambulandum est uersus . . .Christus benedictus in secula. Amen'; (xiii) ‘[S]urgere. Dicit magister de proprietatibus rerum quod elephas non habet tibias siue . . .uiuit et regnat. Amen’ See Zoltan J. Kosztolnyik, ‘Some Hungarian Theologians in the late Renaissance', Church History, 57 (1988), 5-18, at 5-6, with bibliographical references; G. Borsa, Michael de Hungaria, élete és művének nyomtatott kiadásai (Budapest, 1997), 33-45 and 140 no. 5; G. Borsa, Michael de Hungaria: A Medieval Author in Britain, His Person and a Biography of the Printed Editions of His Work Between 1480 and 1621 (Budapest, 1998), no. 5.

O4r Sermo de passione Domini. Incipit: ‘[Q]ue utilitatis in sanguine meo Psal., reuerendissimi, sicut nouerunt homines scole . . .’ Explicit: presens cum illo in gloria ad quam nos perducat, etc. Text in English on O5v and P5v, conclusiones on the blood of Christ.

P8r Sermo de perfectionis hominis. Incipit: ‘[H]ugo de Vienna super illo Gen. i. Faciamus hominem, etc. ait creator hominis deus in his uerbis . . .’ Explicit: passi sunt martires tormenta

Q3r Sermo de fide et dilectione Dei et proximi. Incipit: ‘[A]mbulate in dilectione ad Ephes. v et in presentis dominice epistolari officio ad imitationem . . .’ Explicit: concedat qui sine fine uiuit et ragnst. Amen

Imprint

Imprint: [Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, c.1484-5]. 4°.

Remarks: As dated by HPT, CIBN, Sack, and Sheppard; Polain dates [c.1486].

Collation

Collation: A10 B–N8 O6 P Q8.

References

ISTC: im00540000

Hain: C 3204;

Goff: Goff M‑540;

Proctor: Pr 9279;

Others: Campbell 1251; CIBN M‑344; HPT II 437; ILC 1579; Polain 2694; Sack, Freiburg, 2446; Sheppard 7136.

LCN: 14454509

Copies

Copy number: M-214(1)

Wanting the blank leaf Q8.

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper boards. At the head of the spine is the ‘AF' monogram of Augustus Frederick (see below), below a ducal coronet, both in gilt.

Size: 209 × 145 × 22 mm.

Size of leaf: 203 × 136 mm.

On B2r a three-line initial ‘S' is supplied in interlocked red and blue with extensions into the margins; other two- and three-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red; running headings giving the number of the sermon are supplied in black ink in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand; capital strokes and underlining in red.

Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘III.B.e.6*': see Lee, Royal Book-plates, 41 no. 24; sale, pt I, part of lot 4072. Purchased for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1848), 41.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.57.


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