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Beinecke MS 473 France, s. XIII^^3/4
Guillaume Perault, Sermones de Epistolis, etc.
1. ff. 1r-76r [Erased inscription, visible under ultra-violet light, f. 1r:]
Sermones epistolarum secundum fratrem G. de petra alta. [text:] Dominica
prima aduentus domini. Hora est iam nos de sompno surgere etc. [Rom. 13.11].
Hoc tempus dicitur tempus aduentuum...ad consilium sacerdotis non uult abstinere
quin ornet se crinibus alienis.
Guillaume Perault, Sermones de Epistolis; see A. Dondaine, "Guillaume
Peyraut, vie et oeuvres," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 18 (1948) pp.
197-209. Sermons occur in the following order with numbers referring to
sermons as listed by Schneyer, v. 2. Incipits for unlisted sermons are given
in full; in some instances it has been difficult to distinguish the precise
order since the sermons are often lacking rubrics or clear divisions within the
text: 129-32, 135, f. 4r: Sic nos existimet...[1 Cor. 4.1]. Sicut aliquam
artem lucratiuam addiscere uolens..., 136-39, 141-43, f. 9v: Obsecro
uos...[Rom. 12.1]. In primo uerbo dat formam prelates mansuete regendi...,
f. 10r: Sicut in uno corpore...[Rom. 12.4]. Utitur apostolus similitudine
sumpta..., 147, f. 10v: Nolite prudentes esse apud uosmet...[Rom. 12.16].
Secundum unam exposicionem dissuadetur..., 149-50, 152, 151, 153-55, 156 + 157
+ 158 (without break), 159-60, f. 18v: Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile...[2
Cor. 6.2]. Legitur quod sit tempus acquirendi. Tempus illud demonstrat
nobis..., f. 19r: Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile...[2 Cor. 6.2]. Si quis
peregrinus transiturus esset mare..., 163, 162, 165-66, 164, 167-69, f. 24v:
Christus assistens pontifex...[Heb. 9.11]. Notandum quod in uerbo proposito
docet nos apostolus iiij^^o^^r et hoc contra..., f. 25r: Non cessamus pro uobis
orantes...[Col. 1.9]. Videlicet ibi deo per omnia placentes in uerbo proposito
iiij^^or docet nos apostolus..., f. 25v: Iste est omnis fructus...[Is. 27.9].
Circa uerbum istud sex ostendemus. Primo quam contemptibilis sit uita hominis
sine fructu..., 170-73, 174 + 175, 176-84, f. 37r: Estote prudentes...[1 Pet.
4.7]. Prudentes esse debemus id est prouidentes futura pericula et
uigilate..., 185-200, f. 47v: Debitores sumus...[Rom. 8.12]. Vocem exactoris
non audit..., f. 48r: Debitores sumus...[Rom. 8.12]. Deo nobis et proximo,
deo tria honorem timorem amorem..., 202, f. 48v: Neque ydolatre
efficiamini...[1 Cor. 10.7]. Quatuor uitia hic dissuadet apostolus que cauenda
essent hominibus scilicet ydolatram..., 203-15, f. 61r: Non cessamus pro
uobis...[Col. 1.9]. In uerbo proposito iiij^^or docet nos apostolus...[the
same sermon as that beginning on f. 25r], 216-20, f. 65v: Obsecro uos...[Eph.
4.1]. Specificat apostolus in hiis uerbis ea que requirit dignitas ad quam
uocati sumus..., 221-25, f. 69r: Confortamini...[Eph. 6.10]. Ut ualde gra [?]
periculum est quod homo guuerram [sic] habeat..., 227-28, f. 71r: Testis
est mihi deus...[Rom. 1.9.]. Ecclesia in hodierno officio instruit nos circa
proximi dileccionem..., 229-30, 232-33.
2. f. 76r Glosses, contemporary with art. 1, that note teaching distinctions.
At conclusion, in a later hand: "Expliciunt sermones de tempore secundum
fratrem. G. de petra alta et sunt fratris gunnssalui de yspania."
3. f. 76v Short extracts from Clement, Fulgentius, Seneca, Job.
Parchment, i (paper) + ff. 76 (contemporary foliation, Arabic numerals in
red, in center of upper margin; contemporary foliation, Roman numerals in black,
partially visible in upper right corner) + i (paper), 171 x 119 (130 x 85) mm.
Ruled in lead; written below top line. Single vertical and double horizontal
bounding lines, full length and full across; remains of prickings in upper
and outer margins.
I^^16, II-VI^^12. Quires signed, on recto, with Roman numerals; catchwords
along lower edge toward gutter, verso.
Written in small gothic bookhand with many abbreviations. Marginal
notations, some lost due to trimming, by several hands.
Plain initials, headings, paragraph marks, in red, but not throughout.
Binding: s. xx. Rigid vellum case.
Written in Northern France in the third quarter of the 13th century; ownership
inscription, s. xiv^^m^^e^^d, on f. 76v ("Isti sermones sunt fratris gunssaluj de
yspania") and two lines, in Spanish, suggest that the manuscript was in Spain
in the 14th century (see also art. 2). Acquired from Dawson's Book Shop, Los
Angeles (Cat. 156, Aug. 1941, no. 43), in 1942, by S. Harrison Thomson (MS 20
in his collection) from whom it was purchased in 1967 with the Edwin J. and
Frederick W. Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.
secundo folio: preparatio
Barbara A. Shailor