Homiliary

Bede, Homiliae in Evangelium; Hrabanus Maurus, Homiliae in Evangelium

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Gubbio, Biblioteca comunale Sperelliana, III 21F 20

Remarks by the Editor

Measurements and details regarding the host volume have been provided by Eliana Gasbarri and Laura Rogari (Biblioteca Comunale Sperelliana).

General Information

Title Homiliary
Shelfmarks III 21F 20
Material Parchment (vellum)
Place of Origin Italy
Date of Origin XII century
Script, Hands

One scribe writing in a mature Carolingian minuscule.

General Remarks

This large parchment leaf (2 columns divided into 54 lines each) preserves a fragment from a homiliary. Its first part transmits Bede’s Homiliae Evangelii 32, followed towards the end by the beginning of Hrabanus Maurus’ Homiliae Evangelii 107.

The first line of the fragment reads at the top of the leaf, col. 1, reads: legale sacerdotium tacitis cerimoniarum suarum. The final line at the bottom, col. 2, has: usque laborantes multa hominum milia. verbo.

The script is a Carolingian minuscule datable to the twelfth century and possibly produced in an Italian scriptorium. Red ink is used at the end of Bede's Homily and an illuminated capital (blue, red, and yellow) decorates the beginning of Hrabanus Maurus' Homily.

The fragment is still in situ. The writing on the spine has faded and a digitisation under UV light has been attempted to enhance its legibility.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines at least 54
Ruling ruling with hard point

Host Volume

Title Ludovici Septalii Mediolanensis medici, in librum Hippocratis Coi de Aeribus, Aquis, Locis, Commentarii V. Appositus est Graecus Hippocratis contextus, et in multis locis emendatus; una cum nova eiusdem in Latinum vesione. Cum Indice Rerum & Verborum locupletissimo.
Date of Origin/Publication 1590
Place of Origin/Publication Cologne
Shelfmark III 21F 20
Page/Folio Reference: The fragment is in situ and is used as a book cover.
Persons Hippocrates, Lodovico Septala (commentator and translator)