Rouse MS 20. SERMONES, fragment

Title: Rouse MS 20. SERMONES, fragment
Uniform title: Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Date Created: XIIIex
XIIIin
Date: 1300/1325
Place of Origin: France
England
Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Summary: Unbound. Originally sewn on 5 bands.
Written in England in the late twelfth century or France in the early thirteenth, to judge from paleographic (forms of “pp,” “de,” “con,” etc.; round shape with wedged minims/ascenders), decorative (red-and-blue alternation, simple acanthus) and codicological features (written on top line). England is the more likely, to judge from the similarity to Rouse MS 21 below. The eighth quire of a larger codex (roman numeral foliation, lvii-lxiiii; quire signature, VIII). Modern pencil notes, f. 1: “#5,” left-hand bottom margin; “Sermones,” left-hand top margin. Bought by Richard and Mary Rouse from H.P. Kraus, New York, in 1983, probably from the Phillipps collection, along with other fragments including Rouse MS 105, which see for modern provenance. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Decoration: 2-line initials in alternating red and blue, flourished with acanthus; blue initials ff. 6va and 8rb flourished in green and red, respectively. Rubrics in red