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JOHN FELTON
Catalogue reference: Sion L40.2/L27
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Sion L40.2/L27
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Title (The name of the record)
- JOHN FELTON
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Date (When the record was created)
- c.1450-c.1500
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Description (What the record is about)
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John Felton, 'Sermones dominicales'. A collection of fifty-eight sermons by John Felton (d. 1434), Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford,1397-1434. His sermon collection was completed in 1431. Begins (f. 1r): 'Penuria studencium in materia morali ...'. Ends (f. 165v): '... concordia dulcis. Ad illa gaudia eterna perducat nos ihesus cristus amen. Expliciunt sermones dominicales per annum per vicarium Magd' Oxon' horum collectorem'. An index, Abraham-Zodiaco, follows in the same hand on ff. 164v-168v: a note at the end, 'Sciendum est quod ... patebunt. amen', explains how it works. According to the compiler of the index the sermons are numbered 'in dextris cornubus foliorum' and divided into 'distincciones' by letter-numbers, but in this copy sermon-numbers and letter-divisions have been entered only here and there. Among scribbling on f. 168v is the palindrome 'Anna tenet mappam madidam mappam tenet anna'.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Twenty-one manuscripts of Felton's sermons, but not this one, are listed by A.B.Emden, ' A biographical register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500', vol 2 p. 676.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Lambeth Palace Library
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Sion College
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 168 ff.
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Written in England. Given to Sion College in 1631 by 'Roger Howe, Gent' according to the Sion Benefactors' Register (Sion L40.2/E64, p.14). 'Donum Rogeri Howe' is written at f. 1r. Recorded by John Spencer amongst manuscripts which survived the Fire of London (Sion L40.2/E58/1, f. 31v). Recorded at Sion College in Edward Bernard, 'Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae' (Oxford, 1697) vol 2, no. 4079. Transferred from Sion College to Lambeth Palace Library, 1996.
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Binding of black leather over wooden boards, tooled in gold. 300 x 220 mm. Late 19th century. Paper leaves, 285 x 200 mm. Written space 195 x 130 mm. 34-37 long lines. Frame ruling. Fourteen quires, each of 12 leaves, signed a-o. Catchwords on each leaf, but on ff. 1v-8v the scribe repeated the last word or words of the page he had just written! A strip of parchment lies down the centre of each quire as strengthening. Script resembles secretary, but g is 8-like, r long, except at first, and e often current. 3-line red initials plain or with ornament in the ink of the text. Capital letters in the ink of the text stroked with red. Secundo folio 'In speculo'.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/07bfaad2-58e1-4b09-85ad-ba56506743d1/
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SION COLLEGE MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION
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SION COLLEGE: LATIN MANUSCRIPTS
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JOHN FELTON