Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial conventions
- Notes on the text
- Sigla
- List of abbreviations
- Prolegomena
- Part I The Collections
- 1 Overview
- 2 John Sheppey (SH)
- 3 Richard FitzRalph (FI)
- 4 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. infra 1.2 (F)
- 5 John Waldeby (WA)
- 6 Thomas Brinton (BR)
- 7 Philip Repingdon (RE)
- 8 John Felton
- 9 Mirk's Festial
- 10 Robert Rypon (RY)
- 11 Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 199 (P1)
- 12 Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 257 (P2)
- 13 Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, Ms 356/583 (C)
- 14 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 649 (O)
- 15 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 706 (R)
- 16 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 200 (L)
- 17 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. th. d. 1 (Q)
- 18 John Dygon (DY)
- 19 Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 96 (CO)
- 20 Oxford, Balliol College, MS 149 (S)
- 21 Henry Chambron
- 22 Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 342 (D)
- 23 Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.4.24 (B)
- 24 Cambridge, Jesus College, MS 13 (J)
- 25 Worcester, Cathedral Library, MS F.126 (X)
- 26 Worcester, Cathedral Library, MS F.10 (W)
- 27 Hereford, Cathedral Library, MS O.iii.5 (E)
- 28 Oxford, Trinity College, MS 42 (V)
- 29 Richard Alkerton
- 30 Thomas Wimbledon, “Redde rationem”
- 31 Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.3.8 (A)
- 32 Arras, Bibliothèque de la Ville, MS 184 (254) (Z)
- 33 London, St. Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 8 (Y)
- 34 London, British Library, MS Harley 331 (H)
- 35 Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS Latin 367 (M)
- 36 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Barlow 24 (N)
- 37 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 392 (K)
- 38 On the margins
- Part II Occasions of Preaching
- Part III Orthodox Preaching
- Final reflections
- Inventories
- Works cited
- Index
18 - John Dygon (DY)
from Part I - The Collections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial conventions
- Notes on the text
- Sigla
- List of abbreviations
- Prolegomena
- Part I The Collections
- 1 Overview
- 2 John Sheppey (SH)
- 3 Richard FitzRalph (FI)
- 4 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. infra 1.2 (F)
- 5 John Waldeby (WA)
- 6 Thomas Brinton (BR)
- 7 Philip Repingdon (RE)
- 8 John Felton
- 9 Mirk's Festial
- 10 Robert Rypon (RY)
- 11 Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 199 (P1)
- 12 Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 257 (P2)
- 13 Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, Ms 356/583 (C)
- 14 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 649 (O)
- 15 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 706 (R)
- 16 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 200 (L)
- 17 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. th. d. 1 (Q)
- 18 John Dygon (DY)
- 19 Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 96 (CO)
- 20 Oxford, Balliol College, MS 149 (S)
- 21 Henry Chambron
- 22 Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 342 (D)
- 23 Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.4.24 (B)
- 24 Cambridge, Jesus College, MS 13 (J)
- 25 Worcester, Cathedral Library, MS F.126 (X)
- 26 Worcester, Cathedral Library, MS F.10 (W)
- 27 Hereford, Cathedral Library, MS O.iii.5 (E)
- 28 Oxford, Trinity College, MS 42 (V)
- 29 Richard Alkerton
- 30 Thomas Wimbledon, “Redde rationem”
- 31 Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.3.8 (A)
- 32 Arras, Bibliothèque de la Ville, MS 184 (254) (Z)
- 33 London, St. Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 8 (Y)
- 34 London, British Library, MS Harley 331 (H)
- 35 Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS Latin 367 (M)
- 36 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Barlow 24 (N)
- 37 Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 392 (K)
- 38 On the margins
- Part II Occasions of Preaching
- Part III Orthodox Preaching
- Final reflections
- Inventories
- Works cited
- Index
Summary
Another unified sermon collection made in the second quarter of the fifteenth century may be the work of a collector who is known to us by name and whose interests, as they are reflected in a number of manuscripts that he owned or wrote himself, included the collecting of sermons. John Dygon studied at Oxford, where he is attested as having earned bachelor degrees in both laws. He must also have incepted as a master, probably of Arts, because in several subscriptions he calls himself “M[agister].” From 1406 to 1435 he held appointments in several parishes in southern dioceses, the last one being St. Andrew's, Holborn, London. Then he was admitted as the fifth recluse to a cell at the recently founded Carthusian priory at Sheen in Surrey, where he lived from 1435 until at least 1449.
Dygon has left various owner's notes and subscriptions in a number of manuscripts, many of which he gave to Magdalen College, Oxford. The notes are all written in the same hand, and this has been identified as Dygon's. They can be separated into two types: in one, besides calling himself Magister, he titles himself only presbiter; in the other he also mentions that he is a reclusus at Sheen. If this distinction is meaningful, it indicates that books with the first form were owned and written before he entered the charterhouse. In this case, Dygon's activity of collecting books and writing them reaches back into his period as a parish priest.
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- Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval EnglandOrthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif, pp. 100 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005