tbJ-208

Text-inc Id:

tbJ-208

Bod-inc Id:

J-208

Headings:

Johannes de Werdena Sermones ‘Dormi secure' de tempore.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Sermones Dormi secure uel Dormi sine cura de tempore’
2. a1v ‘Tabula siue directorium sermonum dormi secure secundum alphabeti ordinem.’ ‘Sequitur de A [A]bstinentes et bene ieiunantes mercedem habebunt apud deum . . .’
3. a4r [Johannes de Werdena]: Sermones ‘Dormi secure' de tempore. ‘Dominica prima aduentus. Sermo primus.’ Incipit: ‘Sermones dominicales cum expositionibus euangeliorum per annum satis notabiles et vtiles omnibus sacerdotibus pastoribus et capellanis qui Dormi secure vel dormi sine cura sunt nuncupati eo quod absque magno studio faciliter possunt incorporari et populo predicari incipiunt feliciter. “[D]icite filie Sion ecce rex tuus venit tibi mansuetus.” Matthei .xxi. [Mt 21,5.] Verba ista scripta sunt originaliter Zacharie .ix . . . Quod nobis ille concedat qui sine fine viuit et regnat. Ad laudem et honorem omnipotentis dei virginisque matris . . . finiunt sermones notabiles quamquam breves Dormi secure intitulati.’ See J‑207. View entry in Person Index
4. x8r [Colophon.]

Imprint:

Hagenau: [Heinrich Gran], 10 Jan. 1493. 4°. Sack and BSB‑Ink treat it as part one of a joint edition in two parts, with J‑211.

Collation:

a–b⁸ c–s^8.4 t⁸ v⁶ x⁸. Woodcut.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ij00464600 H *15964; BMC III 682; Pr 3177; BSB‑Ink I‑556; Sack, Freiburg, 2148; Schreiber V 4397; Sheppard 2231. LCN: 14484230

Copies:

1. J-208(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Johannes de Werdena, Sermones ‘Dormi secure' de sanctis. Hagenau: [Heinrich Gran], 27 Dec. 1492 (J‑211). Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco, with the spine gold-tooled, marbled pastedowns, yellow-edged leaves, and green silk book-mark. Size: 205 × 137 × 41 mm. Size of leaf: 196 × 130 mm. ‘Jesus' on a1r in an early hand. A few initials are supplied in red ink. Provenance: Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh(1744-1811); sale (1789), lot 1483, in Douce's copy of the catalogue annotated with ‘Douce [ ] 7 6'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 87(1).