Uppsala, University Library, C 272. Jacobus de Voragine, <hi rend="italic">Sermones de tempore</hi>,<hi rend="italic"> Sermones de sanctis</hi> Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Uppsala University Library C 272 Saec. XIV2, Prague? (Finland(?); Vadstena) Jacobus de Voragine, Sermon collections for <hi rend="italic">de tempore</hi> and <hi rend="italic">de sanctis</hi>

I:

Fols. 1r–109r: Jacobus de Voragine, <hi rend="italic">Sermones de tempore</hi>. The bifolium with fols. 3 and 10 should be in reversed order (the text continues from fol. 2v to 10r, from 10v to 4r, from 9v to 3r, and from 3v to 11r). The arrangement of sermons follows that outlined by Schneyer 3, 221–233 (in our manuscript, nos. 5 and 6 are in reversed order). One missing sermon was added by another hand on fols. 109v–110r.

[1r] Sermones fratris Jacobi de voragine de dominicis videlicet tres de qualibet dominica. Prologus. Hvmane vite labilis decursus ... provenire concedat. Sequitur aliud. Amen. Dominica prima aduentus. Amos iijo. Prepara te in occursum domini ... [109r] ... illum finem beatum perducat nos ille qui est principium et finis qui sine finem vivit et regnat. Per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit Jacobus de uoragine per manus wlacckonis et cetera. Deo gracias Amen.

Fols. 109v–110r: Jacobus de Voragine, <hi rend="italic">Sermo</hi>. Another hand has added a sermon that was omitted from the collection; cf. Schneyer 3, 228 (no. 103).

[109v] [O]mnis qui irasictur fratri suo ... (Mt. 5:22) Secundum beatum Augustinum in libro de civitate dei ... quia damnati dei visione carebunt ideo semper in fletu erant et semper in dentibus stridebunt. (Fols. 110v–112v are blank).

II:

Fols. 113r–168v: Jacobus de Voragine, <hi rend="italic">Sermones de sanctis</hi>. The arrangement of sermons follows that outlined by Schneyer 3, 246–266 but slightly reordered and with a number of omissions. The last quire should precede fols. 137–150. The quire with fols. 151–162 has its outermost bifolium misplaced (the text continues from 150v to 162r, from 162v to 152r, and from 161v to 151r); see also Andersson–Schmitt – Hedlund 1990, 246–247. Fols. 113r–136v: Schneyer’s nos. 295–351, with the following omissions: nos. 304–306, 313, 335, 339–344, 350 (nos. 319 and 320 are written together); fols. 163r–168v: nos. 386–394 (imperf., continued on fol. 137r); fols. 137r–142v: nos. 394, 395–398; fols. 140v–142v contain two sermons, which follow no. 398, but are not found in Schneyer; fols. 142v-150v: 421–423, 399–408 (the last one continued on 162r); fol. 162r: nos. 408-410 (the last one continued on fol. 152r); fols. 152r-158r: nos. 410–420; fol. 158r contains a sermon not found in Schneyer; fol. 158r-161v: 441–446 (continued on fol. 151r); fol. 151: 446, 447, 451 (imperf.).

[113r] Incipiunt sermons de sanctis et primo andree apostolic sermo vtilis peregrini vt creditur. Vestigia eius secutus est pes meus viam eius ... (Iob 23:11) Tria sunt necessaria cuilibet viro perfecto ... [168v] ... suo robore sustencanit (rest of column is blank, but the text continues on fol. 137r).

 Paper 168 folios 21 29,5 (I (fols. 1–112): 16 (7,5 + 05, + 7,5) × 23; II (fols. 113–168): 14 × 21). Modern foliation (1–168) in pencil in the upper margin. (VI+2)14 + (IV+2)24 + 5VI84 + 2VII112; 2VI136 + VII150 + VI162 + (VI-6)168 Quire signatures in part I (i–ix) found in lower margin of a quire’s first recto. In part II, quire signature found in the lower margin of a quire’s last page (i–v).

Some of the leaves have been, at some point, rebound in an incorrect order. Fols. 3 and 10 should be the other way around (as was noticed by a medieval reader, see fol. 2v). Fols. 13–14, which originally belonged to the second quire (the quire signature is found on fol. 13r), are pasted to fol. 12. Of their counterleaves, fol. 24 is almost completely loose. The quire containing fols. 137–150 bears the quire signature ‘iv’, and should be preceded by the quire with fols. 163–168. Fols. 151 and 162 are in reverse order. Six leaves are excised after fol. 168; since the text left unfinished on fol. 168v is continued on fol. 137r, it seems that the excised leaves formed the first half of the quire.

On fol. 125v, some red ink has been spilled. There is also some dirt and fraying along the edges.

I: two columns with vertical and horizontal bounding lines, c. 60–70 lines; II: two columns with vertical and horizontal bounding lines, c. 50–60 lines). Prickings for the bounding lines visible in the upper, lower and outer margins.

Two contemporary hands of saec. XIV writing a gothic cursive. Hand I (fols. 1r–109r) identifies himself as Wlaccko on fol. 109r. The second hand writes on fols. 113r–168v, and produces a script of a more uneven appearance.

A third hand, possibly belonging to Johannes de Wyborg, adds a sermon left out from the first collection on fols. 109v–110r.

Initials are simple red lombards, usually two lines high. Highlighting, underlining in red. In the first section rubrication also in red; in the second section rubrics are usually indicated by a different type of script.

Plain light blue (nowadays near white) leather covers on wooden boards. There was a quincunx of copper bosses on both covers; only one boss remains on each. Remnants of two strap-and-pin clasps starting from the fore-edge of the back cover and attaching to the middle of the front cover. No pastedowns. The text-block is flush with the boards. On the front cover a label with a badly faded title and the Vadstena shelf-mark.

The manuscript contains sermons by Jacobus de Voragine, apparently copied in Prague by two scribes.

The manuscript belonged to a set of books brought to Vadstena Abbey by Thörnerus Andreae (d. 1435) in 1407. He probably purchased the manuscript in Prague during his studies and had it corrected by a fellow countryman, who, according to Malin (1926, 64) is identical with Johannes de Wyborg, who studied in Prague in the 1390s and served as a cleric in the cathedral of Turku in the 1410s; see inner back cover: ‘anno domini Mo cccxxxxciiiio [= 1394?] Johannes naistigu --- [de] Wyborgh correx[it] in parte librum presentem ad pecicionem domini törneri andrisson clerici dyocesis Aboensis ab exemplari quodam valde trito. Datum [Pra]ge die vij mensis marcii ex --- sub sigillo’.

Thörnerus Andreae entered Vadstena in 1407; the abbey’s shelf-mark ‘D IIII 8’ is found on a label on the front cover (with the number 8, added after-hand during the library's reorganization in mid-15th century)..

The manuscript remained in the abbey’s collection after its dissolution and probably was among those codices taken from the abbey in 1619 and donated to Uppsala University Library in 1621 by King Gustav Adolf II. Uppsala University Library’s shelf-mark on the inner front cover.

 Margarete Andersson-Schmitt – Monica Hedlund, Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Uppsala: Katalog über die C-sammlung, vol. 3, Stockholm 1990, 245–247. Birgit Klockars, “Törner Andersson, en finländsk Vadstenamunk”, Historisk tidskrift för Finland 44 (1959). Aarno Malin, ”Muistoja praagilasesta vaikutuksesta Suomen ja Ruotsin kirjalliseen kulttuuriin keskiajalla”, Suomen Museo 33, Helsinki 1926. Johannes Baptist Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150–1350, vol. 1–11, Münster 1969–1990. C. Thörnqvist, “Svenska studenter i Prag under medeltiden”, Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift 29 (1929). Encoding added