Uppsala, University Library, C 41b, Johannes Pauli Montigena, <hi rend="italic" >Postillae</hi>, vol. 2 Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Uppsala University Library C 41b 1556, Hämeenlinna Second volume of Johannes Pauli Montigena’s collection of <hi rend="italic">Postillae</hi>

(Fols. I–II are blank.)

Fols. IIIr–307v: Postillae from St Andreas to Catharina with lengthy excerpts from <hi rend="italic">Legenda Aurea</hi>.

[IIIr] Postilla nouellis concionatoribus perutilis super omnia euangelia que leguntur in festis sanctorum cum commune et legendis ... (fols. IIIv–Vv are blank apart from a few notes on fol. Vv) ... [1r] In die sancte(!) andree apostoli. Andreas interpretatur decorus, vel respondens vel virilis ab andor ... [306v] ... possumus si patienciam in animo veraciter custodiamus (307r is blank) [307v] (A text on the number of apostles; imperf.) ---apostelorum. Fuit enim sacer duo[de]cim apostolorum cristi numerus ... explorandum destinatis|

Fols. 11v–12v, 31v–32r, 78v, 125v, 152r, 168v–169r, 175v–175av, 183v–184r, 186v, 229v are blank.

 Paper v + 307 + 7 + i fols. 20 29,5 (text area varies) Contemporary foliation starting from the first leaf of text (fols. 1–5) and disappearing after fol. 5. Modern foliation in pencil. This foliation has counted fol. 100 twice, and later emended the second one to 100a. A blank leaf after 175, foliated 175a. Leaf following 249 foliated 249a. A mixed quire structure with a large number of quinio quires.

A small blank slip entered after fols. 25 and 202. A few leaves excised after fol. 31. A leaf excised after fol. 107. Two or three leaves excised after fol. 169. Two leaves excised after fol. 186. A leaf excised after 249a. Fol. 55a is a loose folded slip; fols. 61a, 73a, 284a are loose slips. Fols. 121, 143, 200a are small bound slips. From fol. 294 onwards the leaves are loose.

The paper is severely dirtied, worn and torn in several places.

 One column with vertical bounding lines in ink. Varying number of lines.

One main hand belonging to Johannes Pauli Montigena who wrote the work in 1556 (for further discussion, see description of the first volume, C 41a).

Simple monochromatic initials. Headings, rubrics and biblical lemmata marked with a slightly more formal script.

Blind-stamped calf over wooden boards. Tooling features the roll-frames with evangelists, and vines and leaves in the central panel. Two hook-clasps (only one remains) with catches on the front cover. No pastedown remains on the front cover; the paper one on the back cover is mostly loose. A few pieces of leather and paper removed from the binding are preserved in an envelope kept with the manuscript.

Second volume of the Postille collection written 1556 by priest Johannes Pauli Montigena during his captivity in Hämeenlinna castle. Johannes was imprisoned because of his Catholic opinions. He was allowed to write his sermons in captivity and was able to acquire literature for the task. The work is dedicated to Olaus Magnus (d. 1557) living as an exile in Rome.

In 1573 Johannes Pauli is mentioned to be housed at Vadstena.

It seems likely he carried his works with him and they may have ended up in Uppsala University Library along with the manuscripts of Vadstena Abbey in 1621. Uppsala University Library’s shelf-mark on a label pasted inside the front cover.

 M. Andersson-Schmitt – M. Hedlund, Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Uppsala, vol. 1, Stockholm 1988, 283–285. Aarno Maliniemi, “Lisiä keskiaikamme historiaan. V. Eräs Hämeenlinnassa v. 1556 kirjoitettu latinankielinen katolilainen postillakäsikirjotus”, Historiallinen arkisto 36 (1928), 66–71. Aarno Maliniemi, De S. Henrico episcopo et martyre. Die mittelalterliche Literatur über den Apostel Finnlands. II. Legenda nova. Sermones, Helsinki 1942, 70–77. Encoding added