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Senate House Library, University of London

Sermons about the Blessed Virgin Mary


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 269

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Sermons about the Blessed Virgin Mary

Date(s): Mid 15th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 94 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on 15th August.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing a collection of treatises and sermons on the Blessed Virgin Mary, dating from the mid-fifteenth century, and comprising a treatise beginning 'Caritatis radix flos et fructus est eternitatis fundamentum'; Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis by Conrad of Saxony; a sermon by Saint Augustine of Hippo on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; a homily by Saint Anselm on the Feast of the Assumption; a sermon by Saint Augustine of Hippo for the Feast of Assumption; a note on the seven privileges of the Blessed Virgin Mary (possibly taken from the Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis); and an incomplete copy of a sermon by Saint Ambrose on the Virgin Mary. The manuscript was written by various scribes in a mixture of book-hand and business-hand, probably in Germany.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript octavo. Written on paper with a mid-nineteenth century mottled calf binding by Riviere and Son. Rubricated.

Finding aids:

Collection level description. See also N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries I, London (1969).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from Messrs. Frank Hollings, London, in 1949.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis was originally thought to have been written by Saint Bonaventure, and so was printed amongst his works in 1596, and by itself, last in Bibliotheca Franciscana Medii Aevii (1904). The sermons by Saint Augustine and Saint Anselm are printed in J. P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus (1861), in volumes 39, 40 and 95.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Catholicism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Theology

Personal names
Ambrose | ? 340-397 | Saint | Bishop of Milan x Saint Ambrose
Anselm | 1033-1109 | Saint | Archbishop of Canterbury x Saint Anselm
Augustine | 354-386 | Saint | originally Aurelius Augustinus | Bishop of Hippo x Saint Augustine of Hippo
Conrad | d 1279 | of Saxony | friar and ascetical writer x Saxony | Conrad of x Holyinger | Conrad

Corporate names
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Places