Queen's College, MS. 255

Nicholas de Aquavilla, Sermones dominicales
England; 15th century

Text

(pp. 1-302) "Hora est iam nos de sompno surgere etc. Ro.13o. [i.e. Romans 13:11] In ista totali epistola monet nos apostolus ad 3a Primum est ad nos de sompno peccati cito surgendum … Gloria. laus. requiens. amor et concordia dulcis Ad illa gaudia eterna perducat nos ihesus christus Amen ~ ~ || Expliciunt Sermones dominicales tocius anni. cum sermonibus principalium festorum editi a magistro Nicholao de Aquevilla uniuersitatis parisiensis sacre pagine professore ~". (Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones, IV, pp. 189-94, with a list of manuscripts, including the present one, at pp. 194-5; a few more are added by Sharpe, Handlist of Latin writers, p. 383).

Decoration

One four-line initial in blue with red penwork flourishing (p. 1); sections signalled with large plain blue markers.

Physical description

• MATERIAL: Paper; the leaves c. 200-5 x 165 mm.; the margins heavily cropped, with the loss of marginal numbering, etc.
• NUMBER OF LEAVES: ii + 152 + ii.
• FOLIATION: Paginated: i-iv, 1-97, 98a-c, 99-306 in 18th(?)-century ink on rectos only, except for pp. i-iv, 98a-c, and 303-306 foliated in modern (1999) pencil on recto and verso.
• COLLATION: Quires mostly of fourteen or ten leaves each: 1-614 (pp. 1-166), 710 (pp.167-186), 812 (pp.187-210), 9-1210 (pp. 211-290), 136 (pp. 291-302); no catchwords of leaf signatures visible.
• LAYOUT: Frame ruled in faint leadpoint; the ruled space c. 185 x 125-30 mm.
• WRITING: Written with typically 30-35 lines per page in a anglicana/secretary script.
• SEC. FOL.: "bonum apud" (p. 3).

Binding

Sewn on three thongs laced into pasteboards covered with plain parchment; the upper board becoming detached, the spine with a printed paper label "24" (cf. under Provenance).

Provenance

1. Written in England in the 15th century.

2. Inscribed, 18th(?) century: "Nicolaus de Aquevillâ. | Dr Parisiensis." (p. i).

3. Queen's College: the inner face of the upper board with the college bookplate, and inscribed with the former shelfmark "Q. 24." (cf. spine)

Bibliography

• Coxe, Catalogus, p. 59.