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Burney MS 300

Record Id:
040-002237211
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002236305
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00015c
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 300
Title:
Sermons of St Bernard of Clairvaux
Scope & Content:

Second volume of a two-part collection of Sermons by St Bernard of Clairvaux, containing sermons from Easter to Pentecost and various feasts.

  • ff. 1-5v: Sermo 1 de resurrectione. (PL 183, 273-274)
  • ff. 5v-8: Sermo 2 de resurrectione (PL 183, 283-288)
  • ff. 8-10: Sermo 3 de resurrectione (PL 183, 288-292)
  • ff. 10v-12v: Sermo 1 in octava (PL 183, 291-296)
  • ff. 12v-13v: Sermo 2 in octava (PL 183, 296-298)
  • ff. 13v-14: Sermo in rogationibus (PL 183, 297-300)
  • ff. 14-15: Sermo 1 de ascensione Domini (PL 183, 299-301)
  • ff. 15-16v: Sermo 2 de ascensione Domini (PL 183, 301-304)
  • ff. 16v-18v: Sermo 3 de ascensione Domini (PL 183, 304-309)
  • ff. 18v-22v: Sermo 4 de ascensione Domini (PL 183, 309-314)
  • ff. 22v-23 Sermo 5 de ascensione Domini (PL 183, 665-666)
  • ff. 23-26v: Sermo 6 de ascensione Domini (PL 183, 316-324)
  • ff. 26v-29v: Sermo 7 de ascensione Domini (=Sermon 21-22 in Canticles as published in PL 183, 872-878) with first portion of the next sermon in the edition added to this
  • ff. 29v-36v: Sermo in die Pentecostes (attributed to Richard of St Victor as in PL 196, 1017-1032)
  • ff. 36v-42v: Sermo 1-3 de Sancto Spiritu (PL 183, 324-334)
  • ff. 42v-45v: Sermo in festo S. Johannis Baptistae (PL 183, 397-404)
  • ff. 45v-46v: Sermo de S. Johanne Baptista (attributed to Hildebert of Tours in PL 171, 656-658)
  • ff. 46v-52v: Sermo 1-4 in festo SS. Petri et Pauli (PL 183, 403-416)
  • ff. 52v-53: Sermo in die Apostolorum (Inc. Duas Moyses tubas de argento constituit , ut ad earum clangorem populus ad audiendam legem conveniret . Sed quid per tubas nisi principes apostolorum Petrum et Paulum a vero Moyse Christo in mundo constitutos intelligimus)
  • ff. 53-54v: Sermo devotus de David et Golia (PL 183, 333-338)
  • ff. 54v-55v: Sermo 1 in Dominica sexta post octavam Paschee (PL 183, 337-339)
  • ff. 55v-57v: Sermo 3 in Dominica sexta post octavam Paschee (PL 183, 341-344)
  • ff. 57v-58v: Sermo de diversitate et mutua supportatione morum (PL 183, 637-639)
  • ff. 58v-62: Sermo in die Beatae Mariae Magdalenae ( attributed to Peter Damian in PL 185, 660-666)
  • ff. 62-62v: Sermo de proposito bene vivendi, ac recta et pia intentione
  • ff. 62v-63v: Sermo de miseria humana (PL 183, 645-647)
  • ff. 63v-65v: Sermo de vere quaerentibus Deum (PL 183, 639-644)
  • ff. 65v-67: Sermo 1 in die Assumptionis Beatae Virginis Mariae (PL 183, 415-417)
  • ff. 67-69v: Sermo 4 in die Assumptionis Beatae Virginis Mariae (PL 183, 425-430)
  • ff. 69v-70: Sermo in die Assumptions Beatae Virginis Mariae (PL 183, 669-670)
  • ff. 70-74v: Sermo de Assumptione (PL 183, 429-438)
  • ff. 74v-79v: Sermo de nativitate Beatae Mariae. (PL 183, 437-448)
  • ff. 79v-81v: Sermo ad abbates et fratres PL 183, 634-639)
  • ff. 81v-84v: Sermo 1-2 de angelis (PL 183, 447-454)
  • ff. 84v-93v: Sermo 1-5 in dedicatione ecclesiae (PL 183, 517-535)
  • ff. 93v-108v: Sermo 1-5 in solemnitate omnium sanctorum (PL 183, 453-482)
  • ff. 108v-113: Sermo 1-4 de verbis Isaiae, " Vidi Dominum sedentem super solium (PL 183, 343-353)
  • ff. 113-118: Sermo in festivitate sancti Martini episcopi (PL 183, 489-500)
  • ff. 118-119v: Sermo de S. Clemente (PL 183, 500-502)
  • ff. 119v-125v: Sermo 1-3 in vigilia et in festo S. Andreee (PL 183, 502-514)
  • ff. 125v-130: Sermo 1-2 de assumptione Beate Marie (PL 183, 417-425)
  • ff. 130-131: Sermo de excessu religiosorum (PL 183, 908-909)
  • ff. 131-135v: Sermo de corpore Christi Domini nostri Jhesu Christi (PL 184, 981-992 with slightly different incipit but same text, not Bernard)
  • ff. 136-137: Sermo de nativitate gloriosissime Virginis Marie (PL 185, 199-203)
  • ff. 137-139v: Sermo de felici transitu Malachie episcopi (PL 183, 481-486)
  • ff. 139v-140: Epistola fratribus Hybernie de eodem transitu (PL 182, 579-580)
  • ff. 140v-143: Sermo de felici transitu Humberti (PL 183, 513-518)
  • ff. 143-150v: Omelia Origenis de Beata Maria Magdalena (CPG 1523)
  • ff. 150v-160: Life of St Fevronia translated by Guarimpotus (BHL 2843b – unpublished except for the prologue in Devos (1958), pp. 165-166.)
  • ff. 160-161v: Sermo in vigilia assumptionis super evangelium (=Chapter 75 of Ludolf of Saxony’s Vita Christi (Rigollot (1865), pp. 328-330)
  • f. 161v: Oratio in assuumptione
  • f. 161v: Miraculum in vigilia assumptionis. Inc. Dum civitas Suessoniensis excommunication” Expl. …diem festum agent tibi
  • f. 161v: Aliud miraculum. Inc. Cum quidam mutus a nativitate. Expl. …grata sibi facta est.
  • ff. 162-162v: List of contents

Decoration

Partial foliate border and large blue initial on gold background with foliage decoration in the bowl of the letter (f. 1). Large and small red and blue puzzle initials. Light yellow highlights to the capital letters at the beginning of sentences. A few red paraph marks.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Burney Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002236305
040-002237211
Is part of:
Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

 

Burney MS 300 : Sermons of St Bernard of Clairvaux
Hierarchy:
032-002236305[0295]/040-002237211
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
Parchment codex.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1490
End Date:
1510
Date Range:
c. 1500
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 350 x 230 mm (text space 260 x 175 mm in two columns with intercolumn of 20 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 163 (ff. i and 163 are marbled paper flyleaves)

Script: Gothic cursive (Bastarda).

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance: Celestines of Amiens (17th century? inscription, f. 1). The same scribe wrote Burney 301, which contains Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons from Advent to Easter, and a simmilar 17th century inscription, 'Celestinorum Ambianensium', f. 1.

Inscribed '2 Tome £3-10-0', f. i verso.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar. Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Information About Copies:
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Publications:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pp. 76-77.Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque [Impériale] Nationale: Étude sur la formation de ce dépôt 3 vols (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), II (1874), 251.C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (pp. 410, 413).
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Places:
Amiens, France