Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England

Appendix A: Inventories of Manuscripts and Sermons

APPENDIX A Inventories of Manuscripts and Sermons The following descriptions furnish bibliographical details concerning the thirteen manuscripts discussed in chapter 3 and list all the late-medieval sermons they contain. Measurements are given in millimeters; the detailed collations are entirely my own. For each sermon, I give: 1. the occasion as noted in the rubric at the beginning of the sermon 2. the thema, with biblical locus and occasion if present 3. reference to the modern Vulgate, in square brackets 4. the opening words of the sermon 5. folio reference 6. occasion of the sermon, without brackets if stated in the initial rubric, and in brackets if inferred from other marginalia or references in the sermon and 7. the type of the sermon according to the classification presented in chapter 1. Asterisked sermons are type C. A Cambridge, University Library, MS li.3.8 Paper, with parchment flyleaves in front and back. ii +177 +iii +pastedown . Dimensions: 295 x 220, written space of sermons 245 x 175. Collation : I-IV12 (medieval foliation: i-xxiii, 1-48), VIO (49-58), Vpo (59-68), VIIIO (69-76, 78-79; medieval 77 excised), vmlO (80-89), IX12 (90-100, unnumbered [lOOA)), X12 (101-110, 1102 [old 111], 1103 [old 112)), Xp2 133 134 Macaronic Sermons (1104 twice [old 113-114], 1105, 106-109, 110, cxi-cxiiii), XII12 (cxv, cxvi, cxvii twice, cxviii-cxxi, leaves 9-12 excised), XIII12 (cxxvi-cxxxvii), XIV12 (138-149), XV12 (150-161; 152-153 wanting), XVP2 (162-170, leaves 1012 excised), 174-176. Medieval foliation as indicated (and used in the following analysis). Ff. 1-33 are written in two columns, the remainder in long lines, in several hands ranging from early to very late in the fifteenth century. Secundo folio: iste et persequentes. Owner's note, f. 176: John Morton [Merton? Melton?], bought from William Denham [?], belonging to Thomas ... Literature: Owst 1926 and 1933 (passim); Erb 1971; Stemmler 1975. As noted in the catalog (Cambridge University 1858, 3:411-12), the manuscript contains three treatises on the Decalogue (Bloomfield 5618, 2086, and 0450, on ff. 1-18, 18v-31, and 31v-36v, respectively), an ars praedicandi (Caplan Suppl. b, ff. 37-4Ov), and then a series of fiftyeight sermons de tempore in irregular order and some sermon material, such as exempla, commonplaces with English translation, expanded distinctions , and skeleton sermons (ff. 41-169). Many sermons are incomplete , ending with the marginal note "vacat" (f. 53) or "non plus in copia" (76, 78, 89v), and the scribes have frequently left blank spaces. As it is not always easy to distinguish between a full sermon and an extended distinction, I follow the medieval table of contents (ff. i-ii), which refers to a total of fifty-eight sermons, giving fifty-six themata, for two of which it lists two different sermons each. A-Ol. Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge in adiutorium, Psalmo 32 [Ps. 34:2]. Si debilis quisquam bellum inire debeat cum aduersario forti et astuto-Ff. 41-43v. Type A. A-02. Hortamur vos ne in vacuum graciam Dei recipiatis, 20 Ad Corinthios [2 Cor. 6:1], et in epistula hodierna. Karissimi, Ista dicitur dominica in quadragesima. Est quadragesima dies quadraginta dierum incipiens-Ff. 43v-45v, incomplete. 1 Lent. Type o. A-03. Sermo in die Parasseues. Christus passus est pro nobis, 1 Petri 20 [1 Pet. 2:21]. Racio potest assignari quare hodie sancta ecclesia a Spiritu docta-Ff. 46-47, incomplete. Good Friday. Type O. A-04. Lapis solutus calore in es vertitur, lob 28 [Job 28:2]. Ista verba, dilectissimi, si ad literam intelligantur, veritatem habent, set spiritualiter -Ff. 47v-48. [St. Thomas the Apostle.] Type O. A-OS. Veni, Domine lesu, Apocalipsis vltimo [Rev. 22:20]. Scitis quod vnumquodque naturaliter sanitatem corporis diligit-Ff. 49-50. [Advent season.] Type O. Inventories of Manuscripts and Sermons 135 A-06. Penitenciam agite, Matthei 30 [Matt. 3:2]. Dilectissimi, Sapiens rex Salomon qui scienciam docet-Ff. 50-51. Type O. A-07. Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo, Joel 38 primo capitulo [Joel 2:17]. Karissimi, Quando aliquis populus verberibus opprimitur grauioribus , tanto idem populus ad Deum calmat [I] feruencius-Ff. 52-53, incomplete, with marginal note "vacat." Type O. A-OS. Vltra non serviamus peccato, Ad Romanos vio [Rom. 6:6]. WIgariter dicitur, "Stultus est qui potest eligere et capit partem peiorem "-Ff. 53-54. Type O. A-09. Orate vt non intretis in...