Sermons about the Blessed Virgin Mary

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS 269
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Sermons about the Blessed Virgin Mary
Date(s)	: Mid 15th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume containing 94 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on 15th August.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing a collection of treatises and sermons on the Blessed Virgin Mary, dating from the mid-fifteenth century, and comprising a treatise beginning 'Caritatis radix flos et fructus est eternitatis fundamentum'; Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis by Conrad of Saxony; a sermon by Saint Augustine of Hippo on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; a homily by Saint Anselm on the Feast of the Assumption; a sermon by Saint Augustine of Hippo for the Feast of Assumption; a note on the seven privileges of the Blessed Virgin Mary (possibly taken from the Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis); and an incomplete copy of a sermon by Saint Ambrose on the Virgin Mary. The manuscript was written by various scribes in a mixture of book-hand and business-hand, probably in Germany.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

Collection level description. See also N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries I, London (1969).

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from Messrs. Frank Hollings, London, in 1949.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis was originally thought to have been written by Saint Bonaventure, and so was printed amongst his works in 1596, and by itself, last in Bibliotheca Franciscana Medii Aevii (1904). The sermons by Saint Augustine and Saint Anselm are printed in J. P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus (1861), in volumes 39, 40 and 95.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jun 2001