Petrus Comestor, Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Maurice of Sully, Geoffrey Babio, Sermones ; Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim ; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt)
Agent
Preferred form
Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
Original form
Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
Other form
Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
S. Isidorus Hispalensis
Isidorus Hispalensis
Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
ISIDORE
Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
Isidorus
Isidore de Séville
Isidori Hispalensis
Isidori
ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
Isidore (Saint), de Séville
Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
Isidorus van Sevilla
Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
Isidore
Isidore of Seville
Isodore of Seville
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
Isidorus<Hispalensis>
Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
Isidore de Séville (saint)
Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
Isidorus <Hispalensis>
Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
This 12th-century manuscript was written at and owned by the
Cluniac Priory of Wenlock in Shropshire. It contains a large
collection of sermons that is attributed to the French theologian
Peter Comestor (d. 1178). The collection, however, also contains
anonymous sermons, and sermons that have been attributed to other
authors, including Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), the
French theologian Alain de Lille (b. c. 1128, d. 1202/1203),
Maurice of Sully (1120-1196), Bishop of Paris, and Geoffrey Babio
(b. 1136, d. 1158), Archbishop of Bordeaux. The fact that the
manuscript almost entirely consists of sermons by 12th-century
French authors, is indicative of Wenlock Priory’s close
connection with the Cluniac priory of La Charité-sur-Loire and its
mother house, the Abbey of Cluny. Wenlock Priory was founded
between 1079 and 1082 at a former house for Benedictine nuns (the
Abbey of St Milburga), as the first English dependency of La
Charité-sur-Loire. Wenlock Priory’s first monks are thought to
have come from La Charité-sur-Loire, which usually also nominated
Frenchmen as abbots for the priory. Contents: ff. 1r-110r: Petrus
Comestor and Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Sermones (Sermons), beginning:
‘Ordo Sermonum Magistri Petri Manducatoris in Synodis’. ff.
110r-112r: Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim (On the Six Wings
of the Cherubim), beginning: ‘Prima ala: confessio non laudis’.
ff. 112r-113v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Etymologies), Book
16, Chapters 25-26, beginning: ‘Ponderum ac mensurarum iuvat
cognoscere modum’. ff. 113v-176v: Petrus Comestor and
Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Sermones (attributed to him in the explicit
on f. 176v: ‘Expliciunt Sermones Magistri Petri
Manducat[ori]’); the section, however, also includes at least 14
sermons by Maurice of Sully (ff. 126v-127v; 127v-128v; 128v-129v;
ff. 130r-131r; 131r-132r; 139v-140v: 144r-145; 145r-146r;
146r-147r; 149v-150v; 152v-153v; 154v-156r; 160r-160v; 163v-164r)
and one by Geoffrey Babio (ff. 161v-162v). f. 176v: A prayer to St
Milburga: 'Hunc t[ibi] Myldb[ur]ga sc[ri]psi • mea c[ri]mina
purga ; / Virgo deo digna • veniam m[ihi] posce benigna. / Et
p[ro] mercede ; corpus req[ui]escat in ede. / Qui t[ibi] tollet
eu[m] p[er]eat [v[el] sic sit] maledict[us] in evum ; / Corp[us]
da[m]pnet[ur] ; s[ed] [vel ut] sp[iritu]s igne pietur.'The
manuscript contains a number of additions:ff. 176v-177r: A table of
contents, added in a 12th- or 13th-century script. f. 177r: An
epitaph (‘Epitaphium huius auctoris’), added in a (?)
15th-century script. f. 177v: Latin verses, imperfect, include a
reference St Milburga, added in a (?) 15th-century script.[f. 178v
is empty]. Decoration:1 large initial in gold with penwork
decoration in red and green (f. 1r). Medium and small initials in
green, red or ochre, often with penwork decoration in the same or
in one alternate colour, occasionally with a reserved design; some
with pen-flourishing (f. 3v). Simple initials in red and green (f.
176v). Small initials highlighted in red. Rubrics and paraph
markers in red. Manicules in brown ink added to margins throughout
the manuscript.
