Introduction:
This 14th century manuscript is attributed to the French Dominican Guilelmus Peraldus
or Guillaume Peyraut (ca
1190–1271). Paraldus wrote several cycles of sermons to be used by other preachers.
Trinity Hall’s manuscript contains
numerous Latin notes and draft sermons in a 14th / early 15th century hand throughout.
Peraldus' Sermons are arranged according to the Temporal in two series. It ends imperfectly at fol.
181 in the sermon for the last Sunday after Trinity. The first of the marginal sermons
is Sermo 2 de ascensions domini, while
the last of the marginal Sermons is on the Ascension.
Guilelmus Peraldus Sermones
Sermons of Guilelmus Peraldus
Paraldus, Guilelmus, ca. 1190 – 1271
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
1r [H]ora est iam nos de sompno sugere et cetera; hoc tempus dicitur tempus
adventuum
Explicit: N/A (ends imperfectly)
14th century cursive title ‘Pariensis’, top fol. 1r. Note from B. Atkinson, Under-Librarian
of CUL, to Rev. W. O.
Chadwick, identifying Peraldus as author, and noting that work often attributed (as
here) to Guilelmus Parisiensis in middle
ages. Erased inscription, top fol. 1r. Lower margin cut out fol. 5, lower right corner
cut out fols. 10, 32.
Secundo Folio:
2r Honorum contra
Form: codex
Support:
Parchment
Extent:
iii paper flyleaves + 181
folios + iii paper flyleaves leaves.
268 × 188 mm.
Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil in the top right corner.
Collation
18-8 8; 9 6 (wants 1); 108-238.
Condition
Hole and rust-stains in centre of upper margin of first few folios from chain on
earlier binding, significant
worming for first few folios. Quire lost after fol. 181.
Layout
175–190 × 125 mm.
Double columns of 40 lines, ruled in crayon. Catchwords, quire marks
(at end of quire).
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand(textualis). More than one scribe?
Decoration
Guide-words for rubrics, but only filled in (haphazardly) from fol. 60r onwards
Additions
Numerous marginal Latin notes and draft sermons in 14th / early 15th century documentary
cursive hand throughout.
Binding
17th / 18th century brown leather over paste boards, blind-tooled open panel design, blue and white
endbands, ‘T [.] 15’ on fore-edge.
Origin:
14th c., ca. 1300 – 1325
; England
Provenance and Acquisition
In the Library by 1600, when it was recorded as no. 2176.3 in the Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis by Thomas James (1600).
