Marston MS 95     Spain, s. XV 2
Vincent Ferrer, Sermones

For the following collection of sermons we list incipits for the first
and last items in the volume.  In this version of the sermons the text
begins in Latin, presents the main points of the sermon in Spanish, and
then returns to the body of the text in Latin.

1. ff. i recto-ii recto Ista est tabulla sermonum qui continentur in isto
libro.  In die resurrectionis. sermo. Surrexit non est hic. folio iij#o./
Feria secunda. sermo surrexit dominus vere. et aparuit. folio.
primo./...Item quidam sermo de humillitate.  Incuruabitur sublimjtas et
cetera. folio. cclxxxij#o./ Explicit deo gracias Amen.  f. ii verso ruled, but
blank

Table of contents for art. 2; entries alternate in black and red with
paragraph marks and margin guides to the text in the opposite color.

2. ff. 1r-293v In resurrectione dominj sermo.  Surrexit dominus vere et
apparuit...[Luc. 24.34].  Sermo erit de vno mirabili opere quod christus
fecit discipulis duobus discipulis in die resurrectionis de quo loquitur
euuangelium hodiernum...; [f. 3r:]  In die resurrectionjs dominj. 
Surrexit non est hic [Mark 16.6].  Volens predicare de christi
resurrectione ut hec alta materia sit ad honorem dei...; [f. 5v:]  Feria
secunda in resurrectione dominj.  Mane vobiscum domine quoniam...[Luc.
24.29].  Pro declaracione thematis sciendum quod in sacra scriptura
christus uocatur sol Ratio et auctoritas quia sol naturalis...[f. 7v:] 
Item In feria secunda.  Tu solus peregrinus es...[Luc. 24.18].  Verba
sunt cleophe vnjus uidelicet de illis duobus quibus apparuit dominus in
die resurrectionjs...; [f. 8v:]  Feria tertia sermo.  Aperuit illis
sensum ut intelligerent...[Luc. 24.45].  Sciendum quod inter omnes
veritates et difficultates fidei christiane articulo...[f. 288r:] 
Domjnjca ante aduentum sermo de epistola.  Faciet iudicium et iusticiam
jn terra [Ier. 33.15].  Habetur uerbum istud originaliter in libro jeronime
prophete ca. 23. et recitatiue In epistola currentis dominice.  sermo
noster erit de defunctis.  sed ut sermo sit deo acceptabilis...; [f.
289v:]  Domnjnca ante aduentum sermo de epistola.  Ecce dies ueniunt
dicit dominus...[Ier. 23.5].  Et recitatiue In epistola currentis domjnjce
verbum propositum pro themate et fundamento...; [f. 292r:]  Sermo de
humilitate et cetera.  In curuabitur sublimitas hominum et humiliabitur
altitudo...[Is. 2.17].  In verbis per thema preassumptis et vestre
reuerencie...et finaliter gloriam consequamur quam nobis prestare dignetur
et cetera.  Explicit deo gracias.  f. 294r beginning of table of contents,
similar to that in art. 1, but incomplete; f. 294v blank

Paper (sized; watermarks:  similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux
3694-3702, and unidentified cross bow in a circle), ff. ii (contemporary
table of contents) + 284 (contemporary foliation in red: 
i-cclxxxij;
modern foliation, in pencil, incorrectly runs 1-179, 190-294), 414 x 290
(282 x 205) mm.  2 columns, 48 lines.  Frame-ruled in lead or ink. 
Prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins.
I 6 (-1 through 4, ff. i-ii = 5, 6), II-XXIV 12, XXIV 8 [structure
uncertain, + 3 stubs at end].  Catchwords for gatherings and usually the
first six leaves of each gathering, verso.  Quire and leaf signatures
(e. g., p. iij, p. iiij, etc.) in lower right corner, recto.
Written in gothic cursive script, above top line.
Plain red intials for each sermon; headings, foliation and paragraph
marks in red.  First words of each sermon in large gothic bookhand for
display script.
Binding:  Spain, s. xv/xvi.  Wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit
straps or double cords laced into the wooden boards.  Plain wound natural
color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn on cores laced into the
boards and pegged.  They are tied down around a strip of tawed skin. 
There is a coarse cloth spine lining.  Back pastedown is part of a bifolium 
from a liturgical manuscript with Aquitanian musical notation similar to that
in three manuscripts also from the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos:  Paris,
B. N. n. a. l. 2171, 2193, 2194 (we thank M. Huglo for this information; see
provenance below).  
Covered with reddish-brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a rope interlace
tool, fleurs de lis and annular dots.  Spine:  supports outlined with double
fillets; panels diapered with double fillets with annular dots at the 
intersections.  There are traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower
board, and traces of five round bosses on each board.  Damage from a chain
attachment [?] near the tail of the upper board; remains of a paper or vellum
label near the head.

Written in Spain in the second half of the 15th century.  Belonged to the
monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos near Burgos (shelf-mark "Caj 12" on f.
i recto; listed [item 49] in the unpublished index of books compiled by P.
Gregorio Hernandez in 1772).  Purchased from Maurice Chamonal of Paris in 1957 
by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 1743), who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  [table, f. ii]  Item sermo
[text, f. 2]  et ipse facit

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 75, no. 95.

Barbara A. Shailor