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MS. Laud Misc. 198

Summary Catalogue no.: 818

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fols. 1ra–66vb)
⟨Peregrinus de Oppeln⟩, Sermones de sanctis
Rubric: De sancto Andrea
Incipit: Vestigia illius secutus est […] Job .xxiij. Dominus uocans petrum et andream dixit eis
Explicit: ad suum monasterium deportauit. Rogemus.

As listed Schneyer, IV, pp. 557–64, nos. 106–8, 110; followed by the sermon 'De nativitate', fols. 6r-7v, Schneyer no. 11 in the Sermones de tempore; nos. 111, 113, 114, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 134, 136, 137, 140, 141, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 165, 167, 170, 174, 181, 185, 188; the explicits frequently differing.

Extensively corrected by several contemporary and later hands.

(fol. 66v)

Verses, etc. (contemporary additions)

Incipit: Ignis adulterium destruccio mensa remota
WIC 8674
Rubric: De pollucione noctis
Incipit: Crimen noctis habet pollucio si iacuisti
WIC 3445
Incipit: Pauper mitis flet sitit et
Rubric: vij dona
Incipit: In donis sapiens intellige(?) consule fortis

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: duceretur ad crucem
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 68 + i, including two slips inserted after fols. 34 and 38.
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155–160 × 110 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–33, 34a, 34b, 35–37, 38a, 38b, 39–66, 67.

Layout

2 cols., c. 34–37 lines, ruled in ink.

Hand(s)

Textualis

Decoration

Puzzle initial, fol. 1r.

Coloured initials in blue and red, occasionally with simple penwork decoration.

Binding

Laudian binding, c. 1638

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse: almost certainly identifiable as K.XVI.S in catalogue II (Mainz, SB, Hs I 576, fol. 156r, 'Sermones de sanctis', secundo folio 'duceretur ad crucem'); not in Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description by Matthew Holford (January 2020, rev. Jan. 2023). 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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-16: Add Mainz Charterhouse provenance.