HOMILIARY,
in Latin, with parts of Augustine’s Sermones de Scripturis (Migne, Patrologia Latina 38, cols. 963–4)
Germany, 11th century.
An almost complete bifolium (single leaf measures 200 x 160 mm (text area 163 x 130 mm)) written in single columns in a large sloping late Carolingian hand in dark brown ink, 17 lines, ruled with a hard point (written space double-lined at inner and outer margins), capitals touched in red; recovered from use as a binding and with consequent soiling and creasing, one side worn and with a few paper adhesions remaining, a closed tear without loss in first leaf, margins trimmed just affecting ends of a few lines on second leaf, but generally in good condition, stitched into nineteenth-century buff paper wrappers titled in German on upper wrapper ‘Pergamentblatt einer Handschrift des Xt[en] Jahrhunderts'.
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in Latin, with parts of Augustine’s Sermones de Scripturis (Migne, Patrologia Latina 38, cols. 963–4)
The first leaf here contains parts of sermon 178 from Augustine’s Sermones de Scripturis. Chapter six of the sermon is based on Ecclesiasticus 31,8 and part of 31,10: ‘Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath not gone after gold’, and ‘Who might offend, and hath not offended? or done evil, and hath not done it?’.
A sixteenth-century inscription indicates that the binding once contained Henricus Arnoldi’s De modo perveniendi ad veram et perfectam Dei et proximi dilectionem, most likely the only printed edition (Basel, Michael Wenssler, not after 1 December 1472, ISTC ia01061000).
