A commentary or sermon on I Maccabees 6:39, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [England(?), late 13th or early 14th century].

A commentary on Maccabees
A commentary or sermon on I Maccabees 6:39, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [England(?), late 13th or early 14th century].
An unidentified commentary on I Maccabees 6:39.

6 leaves each c.160×120mm. 2 columns of 34 lines, preserving prickings, the last page and most of the previous column left blank, written in a heavily abbreviated medium-grade bookhand, with no rubrication but lemmata underlined, with a few gaps and blank lines, perhaps due to an illegible exemplar (some water-staining in the margins, not affecting the text)

Provenance:
(1) The text appears to be complete in itself and was probably written as a standalone item, although it must have been bound into a composite volume to have survived with such clean first and last pages.
(2) Colker MS 341; acquired in 1985 from H.P. Kraus.

Text:
The text opens with a space for a coloured initial and the start of I Maccabees 6:39 (‘Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith’, in the King James version), followed by a reference to a sermon by St Augustine: ‘Refulsit sol in clippeos aureos et resplenduerunt montes ab eis. 2 Mach. 32 [sic] Beatus Augustinus in sermone de proprietate verbi […]’, it ends, ‘[...] Quod tibi non vis fieri alii ne facias [Tobit 4:16] et sic ad vitam perveniens quae nobis tibi’.

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