Beinecke MS 546
Austria (Waldhausen), 1445
Sermons from Palm Sunday to the Sixth Sunday after Easter, etc., Latin and German

1. ff. 1r-7r	Unidentified sermons for Palm Sunday. [f. 1r:] Plurima autem turba straverunt 
vestimenta [Matt. 21:8]... Appropinquante die passionis appropinquare voluit Dominus ... ; [f. 
4r:] Sermo in die Palmarum. Secundum gloriam eius multiplicata est ignominia [1 Macc. 1:42] ... 
Hec verba dicit beatus Maccabeus de magno honore ...; [f. 4v] Pronunciamentum in die 
Palmarum. Per istam ebdomadam non celebratur festum alicuius sancti ... Hodie, karissimi, 
Dominus noster venit in Ierusalem ... Osanna, id est salva, obsecro, ita dicas "Seind du pist der 
da chomen ist in unsers Herren namen, nu pitt wir dich das du uns salig machest an der sel und 
an dem leib" ...; Feria secunda. Feria secunda fuit iudex misericors, quia perrexit Ihesus in die 
Palmarum in montem Oliveti ...; Feria tercia. Feria tercia prudens propheta ... ; Feria quarta 
factus est merces ... ; Feria quinta. Factus est panis ... ; Feria sexta. Agnus occisus in cruce ... ; 
Sabato. Sabato factus est granum frumenti ... ; Dominica Resuretionis Domini. In die Pasche fuit 
fortis leo ...

2. ff. 7r-9v	Nota bene de excommunicacione vide caute.  Excommunicacio est a communione 
fidelium exclusio. Species autem excommunicacionis sunt due ... Nota qui excommunicato 
participat peccat quadrupliciter: in excommunicantem, in excommunicatum, in semetipsum et in 
eum gracia cuius ille excommunicatus ************.

On excommunication ; same text in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14121.

3. ff. 9v-15v		Hic nota casus papales cum probacionibus bonis etc.  Primo offensores 
religiosorum, presbiterorum ... ; [f. 11r :] Subscriptos casus et absolucionem ad episcopum. Item 
votorum commutacio et dispensacio seu fraciones votorum ... ;  [f. 14v:] Nota casus pertinentes 
ad plbeanos [sic]. Item statutis diebus Dominicis diebus non visitantes proprias parrochias ... Item 
unusquisque hospes sciat utrum in domo sua sint confessi an non, etc. Et sic est finis huius operis 
per manus nescio.

List of reserved sins and cases. Note various passages in German, e.g. f. 13r: "Item incantracites 
[sic] de nocte vagantes, id est unholdem warsagerin, lupplerin, czawbrerin, tewfelrufferin und all 
ansprecherin et in ipsas credentes ...".

4. ff. 15v-21r		Ich gib mich schuldig Got dem Vater, Got dem Sun, Got dem Heiligem 
Geist und euch, priester an Gots stat, aller der sunden der mich Got schuldig ways ... daz ist mir 
layd. Herr, wie dus an mir erbrens es sey havelabus (?).

Confession in German, dealing successively with the Ten Commandments, the Nine Alien?? Sins 
(Peccata aliena),  the Seven Commandments of the Church , the Seven Deadly Sins, the Six 
Corporal Works of  Mercy, the Five Senses.

5. ff. 21r-80v		Sermons  on Gospels and Epistles from Maundy Thursday to the Sixth 
Sunday after Easter, most of them unidentified. [f. 21r:] 	Sermo in die Cene etc. Homo quidam 
fecit cenam [Luke 14:16]...  Karissimi, hodie celebramus diem in qua Dominus Noster Ihesus 
Christus magnam caritatem ...; [f. 25r:] Sermo in Cena Domini. Non habeo panes laycos ad 
manus [l. ad manducandum] [1 Kgs. 16:4]... Ista verba dixit Amalech sacerdos  legalis ... [by 
Iohannes Contractus, Schneyer v. 3, p. 436]; [f. 27r:] In die Parasceve. O vos omnes qui transitis 
per viam [Lam. 1:12]... Hec verba poterat dicere Christus in cruce cum penderet ... ; [f. 29v:] 
Sermo de Passione Domini. Collegerunt pontifices et Pharisei concilium [John 11:47]... Verba 
ista, quamvis Cayphas pessime intencionis dixerat ... ; [f. 33v:] Sermo de Resurrecione. Hec est 
dies quam fecit Dominus [Ps. 117 :24]... Post auram plu[v]ialem sequitur serenitas ... [probably 
by Iohannes Contractus, Schneyer v. 3, p. 436]; [f. 37v:] Feria secunda. Mane nobiscum quoniam 
advesperascet [Luke 24:29] ... Hec verba possunt dicere illi qui modo in Cena Domini ... ; [f. 
40v:] Sermo de dedicatione. Ingressus Ihesus perambulabat Iericho [Luke 19:1]... Hodie 
celebratur in hoc loco et circa hanc domum gloriosum et graciosum ... ; [f. 46r :] Psalite [sic] Deo 
qui ascendit super celos celorum [Ps. 67:33]... Hodie agitur festum quo Christus, qui propter nos 
in mundum venerat, a mundo in celum ascendit ... [by Iohannes Contractus, Schneyer v. 3, p. 
437] ; [f. 51v:] Dominica secunda. Ego sum pastor bonus [John 10:11] ... Dominica precedenti 
visum est quomodo Christus dixerit discipulis suis ... ; [f. 53v :] Dominica tercia. Mulier dum 
parit tristiciam habet [John 16:21]... Hec Dominica est media inter Pascha et Ascensionem ... ; 
[f. 58r :] Sermo eiusdem. Modicum et iam non videbitis me [John 16:16] ... Hec verba locutus est 
Dominus Deus et ante passionem ... ; [f. 62v :] Cum venerit Paraclitus ille arguet mundum [John 
15:26, 16:8] ... de pecato quod commisserunt, de iusticia quam obmiserunt ... Nota quod Deus 
arguet mundum de pecato quadrupliciter ... ; [f. 63v :] Cum autem venerit Paraclitus ... Verba 
proposita scripta sunt ut pecatores ad penitentiam provocentur ... ; [f. 64v :] Amen dico vobis: si 
quid pecieritis Patrem [John 16:23] ... In verbis istis docet Christus apostolos suos qualiter orare 
debeant ... ; [f. 66r :] Amen amen dico vobis : si qui [sic] pecieritis Patrem ... Secundum Thomam 
in quarto distinctione secunda dicit ... ; [f. 69r:]  Sermo in diebus Rogationum. Confitemini 
alterutrum pecata vestra [Jas. 5:16] ... Verbum istud legitur in ecclesia in diebus Rogationum ...; 
[f. 70v:] Estote prudentes et vigilate in oracionibus vestris [1 Pet. 4:7] ... Petrus in verbis istis 
hortatur nos qualiter debeamus ...; [f. 72r:] Sermo in Ascensione Domini etc. In baculo meo 
transivi Iordanem [Gen. 32:10] ... Karissimi, hodierna die utilis facta est toti mundo ... ; [f. 74r :] 
Dominica quinta post Pasca. Estote factores verbi et non auditores [Jas. 1:22] ... In epistola 
hodierna incitantur fideles ad IIII ... ; [f. 77r :] Estote prudentes et vigilate in oracionibus [1 Pet. 
4:7] ... Legitur quod tempore medio inter ascensionem Christi et missionem ... [by Guillelmus 
Peraldus, Schneyer v. 2, p. 547] ; [f. 78v:]  Sermo secundus eiusdem. Estote prudentes etc. 
Monemur in epistola hodierna ad p[r]udenciam ... [by Guillelmus Peraldus, Schneyer v. 2, p. 
547]; [f. 79v:] Sermo tercius eiusdem. Estote prudentes etc. Prudentes esse debemus, id est 
previdentes futura pericula... ; [f. 80v :] Sermo quartus eiusdem. Estote prudentes et vigilate in 
oracionibus vestris etc. Quando rex aut princeps venturus est ad hospicium ... Ends incomplete : 
... quasi ferrum in vulnere, quod sanitatem impedit // [by Graeculus OFM, Schneyer v. 2, p. 214].

Throughout the manuscript authorities are named in the outer margins.

Parchment and paper, ff. 81, 235 x 165 mm. The outer and the inner bifolium of each quire are 
parchment. Watermarks?? In several quires the paper is damaged by the acid ink. Original 
foliation in red ink in Roman numerals, from "LXXXXIIII" to "CLXXVII", showing that this is 
the second volume of a set. The folio numbered "CXLIII" is missing between ff. 49 and 50, and 
the folios numbered "CLXXV"-"CLXXVI" are missing between ff. 80 and 81.

I-IV 12 (ff. 1-48), V 12 (-2, ff. 49-59), VI 12 (ff. 60-71), VII 12 (-10, -11, ff. 72-81). Horizontal 
catchwords at right (no catchword in quire VI).

Frame-ruled in lead?? for one column, c. 26 lines (type 13, 157 x 104 mm.).
Written by one hand in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; the spelling is deviant. The rubrics as far as 
they were executed are by an incompetent hand in the same type of script.

Headings and marginal captions in red. Frequent red paragraph marks and underlining of text 
passages. Red plain initials (2-4 lines) ; from f. 66r onwards they are generally of a more refined 
type.

Original binding: undecorated white pigskin, with semicircular tabs?? at both ends of the  spine, 
over heavy leather boards. At the top of the front cover is the original shelfmark "D.II" (?); also a 
strip of parchment pasted onto the leather with the inscription: "Sermones a die Palmarum usque 
ad festum Penthecostis in papiro ***********. E.62" (s. XVI ). On the spine with four raised 
bands the handwritten inscription "SERMONES". The rear pastedown is a leaf in the same 
handwriting as the text in our manuscript, and probably belonging to it. Remnants of four leather 
ties at each cover, two at the outer edge and one in the middle of the upper and lower edge.

Copied in 1445 by Pancratius Hales, regular canon in the convent of  St. John the Evangelist in 
Waldhausen (Waldhusium, Regular Canons of St. Augustine) in Austria, between Linz and 
Sankt Polten, according to the colophon written on a leaf which is now lost: "Anno Domini 
millesimo quadragentesimo quadragesimo quinto in die sancti Pangracii [12 May] finitus est iste 
liber per me Pangracium professum in Walthawsen monasterio sancti Iohannis Evangeliste, 
ordinis sancti Augustini canonicorum regularium. Pangracius Hales" (reconstructed after Sotheby 
catalogue and Colophons 14959). Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 12195). Sotheby catalogue ..... 
1912, lot c. 1020?? Gift of Thomas E. Marston, November 1974.

Albert Derolez

Updated 29.11.2007