The first chapter of the following thesis is an extensive description of the physical attributes of our manuscript, without consideration of its textual contents. It begins with a short history of the codex, including my hypothesis of how it ended up in our library. I then describe the physical characteristics of the cover and binding, illustrating how the book is held together. Next I describe the details of the quires and pages, focusing on the dimensions, ruling, and pagination, as well as the physical defects such as rips and missing pages. I also discuss the materials used for the parchment and ink. I then describe the various handwritings used in the text, paying attention to abbreviation patterns. In each of these sections, I make particular note of patterns that occur as well as exceptions to those patterns. The second chapter is focused on the contents of the text. I begin with a discussion of the scholarship on sermon literature and sermon collections, drawing distinctions between random and systematic collections, as well as modern and ancient sermons. Using this scholarship, I categorize our collection, using relevant patterns of marginalia to break down the organization of the manuscript. I then discuss the structure of the sermons themselves, illustrating the actual content of the individual sermons, before offering a few thoughts on the wide variety of marginalia in this item. In the third chapter, I present my transcription and translation of two of the sermons. Finally, in a short conclusion, I synthesize the inferences I have drawn about the manuscript in each of the previous chapters, and make substantive claims about its date and place of authorship, its author, and its intended use.
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