Sermon Quotations: Search

Search Instructions

1. Search by one or more fields by selecting from the drop-down menus.
2. On the Results page, the information in the table can be re-ordered by clicking on the Sort arrows at the top of each column.
3. Clicking on the icon in the More... column displays the full record where Further Details are given, if available.

Notes on Searching

Manuscripts can be searched either by Ref (the abbreviated form used in the Repertorium) OR by Manuscript Name. Not all Middle English sermons manuscripts are included - only those which contain quotations.

Sermon Occasion allows searching for quotations associated with sermons for a particular liturgical occasion. Where the occasion is specified and none can be determined, sermons are listed under Unidentified. To search more broadly for occasions associated with a liturgical season such as Lent or Advent, use Advanced Search.

Author generally gives the author of the quotation as identified in the sermon. Occasionally a sermon author specifies that the quotation is taken secondhand and this is given as 'Augustine [via Gratian]'. Many quotations remain anonymous but a certain number of anonymous entries have been entered under the author headings , Liturgical, and Proverbial. Quotations attributed to 'a grete clerk' or 'a grete doctor' have all been indexed under 'a great clerk/doctor'.

In many cases sermon authors identify the Cited Work from which a quotation is taken. Where possible, this has been given in a standard form; on some occasions this is an easily identifiable work like De civitate dei, on others it is the less easily identifiable Sermones. As the drop-down options show, some titles have not been standardised.

The Language of each quotation is recorded, making it possible to isolate quotations in Latin, or English, or both languages. In the search results for quotations recorded as both, often only the Latin is recorded since it was decided that this would be easier to identify.