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MS. Laud Misc. 103

Summary Catalogue no.: 1370

Gregory the Great, Dialogi and Homiliae in Ezechielem, Germany, s. xiv2/4; A) (fols. 1–70) || B) (fols. 71–144)

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–70 || fols. 71–144
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 365–372. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent.) + 144 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i, 1-145

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: Germany; s. xiv2/4

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: Two Charterhouse copies, of the same date and origin: the late medieval annotations in lead point, which occur in both parts, may stem from the same hand, suggesting that the two parts were already bound together at the Mainz Charterhouse, forming a set of two complete works by Gregory the Great. The book was probably even larger.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 103 – Part A (fols. 1–70)

Contents

1. (fols. 1r–69v)
Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Language(s): Latin
2. (fols. 69v–70v)
Excerpts from Canon Law and the Bible
Language(s): Latin

Added by presumably one or two near-contemporary hands, mostly in a solemn documentary cursive, in different ink and pen, fol. 70r blank.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Die quadam (fol. 2r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.248–55 × 150–77 mm.

Layout

Ruling in ink, one column of 36 lines. Ruled space c.184–91 × 114–17 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis by a single expert scribe

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander i, list p. 72)

Initials in blue and red.

Rubrication by the scribe.

History

Origin: s. xiv2/4 ; German Judging by script and style.)

Provenance

The fascicle lacks any evidence of ownership. The late medieval annotations in lead point may stem from the same hand as the ones in part B, a Charterhouse copy. The top left corner of fol. 1r is defective, perhaps removing evidence of ownership – such as a short ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse, for example. Note, however, that there are no annotations in hands from the Charterhouse typical of that period.

MS. Laud Misc. 103 – Part B (fols. 71–144)

Contents

1. (fols. 71r–144v)
Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Ezechielem
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -didisse cognouit (fol. 72ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.243–47 × 174–80 mm.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of 52 lines. Ruled space c.186–90 × 134–43 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis cursiva by a single scribe.

Decoration

Good fleuronnée initials, one historiated. (Pächt and Alexander i. 138, pl. X)

Rubrication by scribe.

History

Origin: s. xiv2/4 ; Germany (Judging by the script and style of the fascicle.)

Provenance

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-century ex-libris inscriptions, at the head of fols. 71r, fol. 142v, and at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 144v. Part B was purchased by the Mainz Charterhouse, see the erased 15th-century inscription at the lower margin of fol. 104v: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium emptus pro ij flor⟨en⟩is’. It was presumably followed by MS. Laud Misc. 221 (B) in a previous binding, q.v., item 2. Near the centre of the page on fol. 144v , in a hand of s. xvi from the Mainz Charterhouse: ‘De sequenti regula vide latius in libro barlam de regula honeste vite clericorum C xxv T’. A reference to Mainz, Stadtbibl., Hs I 96, which, likewise, contains a reference to D XXIII⟨T⟩ (= MS. Laud Misc. 221) on fol. 73v: from this note it appears that (at least) fascicle B was followed by MS. Laud Misc. 221 (B) in a previous binding, at least at the time when the entry was inserted, at the Charterhouse.

Additional Information

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 105–6
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 59

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 365–372

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-04-23: Sebastian Dows-Miller. Corrected script attribute in handNote.