Identifier:

2/XI/ITA/8A, B.

Scope and content:

ff. 1-3v: [Haimo of Auxerre, Homiliary] //pru[. . .] tres [. . .] inte[. . .] mag[. . .]nium autem ecclesia sig[. . .] ordines habet, coniugatorum, continentium . . . Deum verum hominem esse crediderunt Hiesum Christum dominum// [Hom, in Dom. II post The-ophaniam, lacking the beginning; PL vol.118, columns 136-137; H. Barré, Les homéliaires carolingiens de l'école d'Auxerre (Vatican City 1962) p.149, homily H I, 15]; ff. 1rb-2vb Dominica III post epiphaniam. Lectio evangelii secundum Lucam. In illo. Cum descendisset Iesus de monte secute sunt eum turbe multe. Et reliqua [Mt. 8.1-13]. Superior textus evangelii narrat quod dominus in montem sedens octo beatitudines discipulos docuit . . . et quia verus est medicus qui non venit vocare iustos sed// f. 2: //tentem, unde et per divinitatis eius potentiam eum ubique presentem . . . et in carne mea videbo Deum salvatorem meum. Quem visurus sum ipse ego et non alius et oculi mei// [lacking a portion in the middle and the end; PL vol.118, columns 137-138, 144-146; Barré, 149, hom. H I, 160]; f. 3 //sicut naturaliter per bonam consuetudinem custodire incipit. Dicens . . . inter populum habitantes eorum malignantibus non adherent. [Hom, in Dom IV post Theophaniam, lacking the beginning; PL vol.118, columns 154; Barré, 150, hom. H I, 17bis]; f. 3ra-vb Dominica in septuagesima. Lectio sancti evangelii secundum Mattheum. In illo. Dixit Iesus discipulis suis parabolam hanc; Simile est regnum celorum [Mt. 20.1-16]. Regnum celorum rebus terrenis per similitudinem comparatur, ut per ea quae novimus ad ea quae non novimus cognoscenda surgamus et per visibilia ad invisibilia . . . quia nemo nos conduxit quod est dicere: Nemo nos ad culturam vinee vocavit. Dicit // [Barré, 199, hom. L 21bis].

Acquisition information:

Written in Italy, in Emilia or in central Italy. Damaged by mildew; top lines of f. 1 cropped. Used for binding, probably a fifteenth-century account book: f. 2v bottom, “C. 1470-1475,” “C[arte] 244 scritte e molte lasciate”; f. 3 top, “146.”

Physical description:

Parchment, 1 bifolium (ff. 1-2) + 1 leaf (f. 3); 365 × 230 (284 × 185) mm. ff. 1-2 were originally the third and sixth folios of a quire of 8, and f. 3 the first of the next quire. 2 columns of 41 lines; double bounding lines, triple between columns; uneven dry point ruling; pricking in the outer margin. Upright, uneven, fairly compressed Caroline minuscule script; and often go below the line. Initials red or slashed with reddish orange; headings in red mixed majuscule; 18/20-line watercolor initials of the sermons in vinestem pattern outlined in red on vertical bands of yellow, red, blue, and violet.

Bibliography:

Levine, 50 fig. 3.

Note:

Fig. 3

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