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Ɵ Antonius Azaro de Parma, Homilies, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (Ulm), dated 1393]To view a video of th

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Ɵ Antonius Azaro de Parma, Homilies, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (Ulm), dated 1393]To view a video of this lot, click here. 226 leaves (plus an endleaf at front and back), complete, collation: i-xvii12, xviii14, xix8, traces of occasional catchwords and quire signatures, double column of 38-40 lines of a series of late Gothic hands, opening words of each sermon in larger angular script, capitals touched in red in some sections, red paragraph marks, red rubrics, red underlining and simple red initials, red penwork boxes forming line-fillers between sermons, large opening initial in red strapwork enclosing trilobed design within its body, two leather tabs to mark major text openings, watermark close variant of Briquet 15021 (recorded Nuremberg in 1390; here 'tête de boeuf', but surmounted by a star rather than a cross), a few small spots and stains and a few wormholes, but overall in outstandingly fresh and crisp condition on heavy paper with wide and clean margins, 288 by 203mm.; fifteenth-century brown leather over bevelled wooden boards (bevelled in middle of board-edges in German fashion), tooled with diamond-shaped panels and various foliate stamps (one with Agnus Dei), remains of two brass clasps, small holes in leather on boards, losses of leather at top of spine and splitting at edges of boards, early monastic shelfmark on large paper label affixed to upper part of outer side of front board ("H19") in medieval fashion, with title in same place "Sermones dominicales fratris an-/ thony permensis R V I P", overall sturdy and robust condition; list of sermons and their corresponding reference nos. in Schneyer and Meersseman included with volume A large collection of some 95 Sunday and Lenten sermons in a manuscript with a precise date and provenance in the fourteenth century, in a fine medieval binding; the whole in an outstanding state of preservation Provenance:1. Additions to this book place it among the relatively small number of manuscripts for which we know almost all aspects of its creation. It was completed in 1393 for use by the Augustinian Canons of St. Michael's zu den Wengen in Ulm (founded as a pilgrim hospital and waystation from 1183 under the supervision of Augustinian Canons, closed briefly in the 1530s during the Reformation and reopened in 1549, and finally closed in 1803 and its goods sold): here with dated colophon "Anno domini Mocococolxxxxiii In vigilias Octave ma[u]ri" and a fifteenth-century ex libris on the front endleaf: "Iste liber est fratrum conventus monasterii in insulis vulgariter zü denWengen". Moreover, this second inscription continues, identifying the man who had it bound in the present binding as Petrus Rem, priest of the church at Hörvelsingen (a dependency of zu den Wengen), and perhaps it was in a temporary or loose binding for some decades after its creation. A further fifteenth-century inscription on the same endleaf supports this, stating: "Hunc librum legavit monasterio sancti Michaelis/ Ad insulis ulme dominus petrus dictus rem / Vicarius ecclesie nostre in Hervelsingen".2. By 1703, the book appears to have passed to nearby Wiblingen Abbey (Benedictine house, founded 1093, suffered greatly during Thirty Years' War, secularised in 1806 and then goods auctioned off), where the document that is loosely enclosed within this volume was written. The document attests to the death of A.P. Feliciano Müller in that year, during a siege by the French in the War of Spanish Succession, and is signed and sealed by Abbot Modestus of Wiblingen. If correct, then this volume sat for some time on the shelves in that abbey's celebrated Baroque library. Text:Antonius Azaro de Parma reached fame in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century as a Dominican preacher with a flair for simple and clear sermons expounding Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica. The first solid record of his works is a note of a copy of his sermons in the convent of San Domenico in Bologna in 1381 (that copy now Bologna, Archiginnasio, A.216), and a small number of extant manuscripts survive from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The texts here are a collection of his Sunday and Lenten Sermons, and like other early manuscripts of his sermons have a handful of variant texts and others otherwise unattributed to the author that suggest substantial variation in the earliest layers of the corpus (see G. Meersseman, 'Le opere di Fra Antonio Azaro Parmense, O. P. nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Monaco di Baviera', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 10, 1940, pp. 20-47, at pp. 23-26). Neither Schneyer (Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, 1969-1990) nor Kaeppeli (Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, I, 1970) lists a sermon collection for this author in this form, and we have been unable to trace another copy. While the first group of sermons here have received some scholarly scrutiny (see M. Michèle Mulchahey in Dominican Education Before 1350, 1998, p. 430), nothing has yet been written on the second group, and there is no modern edition of these texts. Thus, this codex is deserving of much further careful study.

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