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Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse
ROUSE MS 34
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, HOMILIE XXI. NETHERLANDS, S. XV

John Chrysostom, Twenty-One Homilies to the People of Antioch. Translated from Greek into Latin in the sixth century, this Greek father’s works were widely read in Western Europe in the later Middle Ages. The present manuscript was probably written at a religious house associated with the Modern Devotion in or near Utrecht, to judge from the long bibliographic rubrics, the decoration (red dragons in relief in the letters), and the hybrida script, sometime in the middle of the fifteenth century. The lengthy rubrics that introduce and conclude each homily reflect the renewed interest by the Modern Devotion in the works of the Latin and Greek Church Fathers.

By the eighteenth century, if not before, this manuscript had been brought to England. It belonged to John Punchard in 1707. His name and the names of his children or relatives Mary, Rachelle, and Francis appear on fol. 1, with a receipt from James Lackwit on fol. 10. From the library of Thomas Martin of Palgrave, Suffolk (1697-1771).

R.H. & M.A. Rouse MS 34

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