Manuscript 18 (MS18) – Sermones Dominicales Per Totem Annum and two other works by Robert Grosseteste and others
The Sermones Dominicales are a collection of Sunday sermons. The other works in the manuscript are a compendium on theological truth, which is divided into seven books and a work on the poison of the seven capital sins by Robert Grosseteste.
- Discover more
A folio manuscript from the fifteenth century, on 229 leaves. The volume is in Latin and evidently written by one hand, believed to be Thomas Boteler. The manuscript is written in small cursive script with red and blue penwork initials.
Robert Grosseteste, the author of the third folio, was Bishop of Lincoln from 1234 – 1253. This work can also be found in MS.23
On the last leaf is a Latin note of the meeting of Parliament at Bury St. Edmund’s in February 1447, the death of the Duke of Gloucester in that month, and a direction in English for cleaning spectacles.
The manuscript is bound in original tawed leather over wooden boards and has been rebacked with brown goatskin. It has a brass chain staple.
More information can be found in A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn by Alfred Horwood, published 1869.
For detailed folio information, please contact the Library.
If you would like to view this manuscript, please make a request here.