The manuscript catalogued in the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel as Cod. Guelf. 237 (Helmst. 204) (1178-1191, or. and prov. Lamspringe) contains an eclectic selection of ca. ninety Augustinian and pseudo-Augustinian sermons, belonging to at least four of the collections described by Lambot (1961) and Verbraken (1976), namely De paenitentia, Quinquaginta, De uerbis domini et apostoli and De lapsu mundi. Though the manuscript has heretofore been largely dismissed as derivative and therefore inconsequential, a recent article on the transmission of s. 142 (Partoens 2010) suggests that the composition of Cod. Guelf. 237 reflects the use of a De lapsu mundi-source that stands separately from the extant direct witnesses of the collection. The manuscript thus merits a closer examination. I will attempt the tentative placement of Cod. Guelf. 237 within the transmission of the collections that have furnished its contents, using textual evidence provided by ss. 168 (Quinquaginta), 170 (De lapsu mundi), 171 (De uerbis domini et apostoli) and 176 (De paenitentia). For ss. 171 and 176 I will be able to make use of, respectively, research on the manuscript tradition of De uerbis domini et apostoli by De Coninck (2006) and a modern edition by Partoens (2003). Furthermore, I am working on a new edition of ss. 168, 170 and 171 as part of my PhD-project. An evaluation of the stemmatic position of Cod. Guelf. 237 may be of help to future editors, particularly since the majority of the sermons in the manuscript have last been edited in 1683 and a modern edition of Augustine's sermones ad populum is currently underway.
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