MS. Laud Misc. 198
Summary Catalogue no.: 818
Contents
Language(s): Latin
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.
Verses, etc. (contemporary additions)
Physical Description
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
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
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-01-16: Add Mainz Charterhouse provenance.