MS. Laud Misc. 228
Summary Catalogue no.: 845
Saints’ lives and legends. Germany, s. xiv2/4.
Contents
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 746–771. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Several texts represent Bartholomew of Trent, Liber epilogorum in Gesta sanctorum (= Lib. epil.), others from Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (= LA) (ed.: E. Paoli, Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini 2, serie I, i (Florence, 2001); A. Poncelet, ‘Le légendier de Pierre Calo’, AB 29 (1910) 5–116, at pp. 14–19; Welter, L’exemplum, 159f.; Kaeppeli 471 & 2154; A. Dondaine, ‘Barthélemy de Trente O.P.’, AFP 45 (1975) 79–105; BHL nov. suppl. 9033; G. P. Maggioni, ‘Aspetti originali della “Legenda aurea” di Iacopo da Varazze’, Medioevo e Rinascimento 4/ n. s. 1 (Spoleto, 1990) 143–201). For full details, see printed catalogue.
Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica: Historia evangelica, 1–6 (ed.: PL 198. 1537B–41B)
Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica: Historia evangelica, 10, 11 & 23 (ed.: PL 198. 1543A–44A & 1549C), text in part different, end not in ed. ’
Lib. epil. 25. 1–32, text slightly shorter.
Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica: Historia evangelica, 7 & 8 (ed.: PL 198. 1541C–42C), text may vary
Lib. epil. 30.
Incipit cf. Lib. epil. 34.
Incipit cf. Lib. epil. 39, Acta SS. Ian. II (1643) 216 and Mombritius 2. 241 (BHL 5543)
Incipit see LA 23. 7ff.
Lib. epil. 49. 1–44.
Lib. epil. 50.
Cf. Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica: Historia evangelica, 9 (ed.: PL 198. 1542C–D), the present text considerably longer.
Lib. epil. 59.
LA 39. 9–104; text in part different/shorter.
Text in parts identical with LA app. 196 (193) 885–886, l. 8
Lib. epil. 70.
(incipit cf. BHL 3641, 3643 & BHL nov. suppl. 3643b)
Lib. epil. 80, text in part slightly different.
Lib. epil. 82. 1–42.
Lib. epil. 144. 1–32.
(fol. 38va) Septuagesima. Lib. epil. 83. 5–16.
Lib. epil. 84.
Lib. epil. 85.
Lib. epil. 86.
Lib. epil. 90.
Lib. epil. 97.
Lib. epil. 104.
Lib. epil. 111.
Lib. epil. 118.
Lib. epil. 124.
Lib. epil. 125.
Lib. epil. 126. 4–5
Lib. epil. 127. 4–7.
Lib. epil. 128. 3–4
Lib. epil. 129.
(fol. 40va) Fer. 6 in parasceve. Lib. epil. 130.
Lib. epil. 131.
Lib. epil. 132
Lib. epil. 138.
Lib. epil. 139.
Lib. epil. 140. 1–2.
Lib. epil. 140. 3–5.
Lib. epil. 141
Lib. epil. 142
Lib. epil. 143
(cf. BHL 3369)
The text is edited as ‘De sanctis Willebaldo e Wunnebaldo’ (no. 60) in D. Gobbi (ed.), Bibliotheca Civis 3 (Trento, 1990) 184f. (after Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibl., CCl 1236, fols 104v–105r), but is not in Paoli’s edition ( BHL nov. suppl. e; AB 52 (1934) 238 (no. 30)); incipit cf. also BHL 8772.
Lib. epil. 76.
Lib. epil. 159.
Lib. epil. 158.
Lib. epil. 167; explicit cf. LA 71. 24.
Lib. epil. 168.
Lib. epil. 169.
Lib. epil. 183.
(incipit cf. Acta SS. Iun. III (1701) 821A–22C (BHL 3514))
LA app. 183 (178) (BHL 24 & BHL nov. suppl. 24m)
LA 72. 6–23 (BHL 8390), shortened.
LA 75. 4–23, text in part different
[Honorius Augustodunensis, Speculum ecclesiae:] De s. Iohanne Baptista (ed.: PL 172. 967A–68A), text may vary, end different.
Lib. epil. 208. 1–71.
Lib. epil. 212.
A summary of the Passio s. apostolorum Petri et Pauli (ed. R. A. Lipsius, Acta apostolorum apocrypha, vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1891) 119–77 (= Ps.-Marcellus, De actibus apostolorum Petri et Pauli); – Stegmüller, RB, 251,3)
Cf. Honorius Augustodunensis, Speculum ecclesiae: De ss. Petro et Paulo (ed.: PL 172. 969D–74A)
(AB 102 (1984) 370).
Lib. epil. 232; incipit see also AB 29 (1910) 80: Legendary of Pierre Calo, no. 477.
Lib. epil. 218. 1–55; text shorter.
Lib. epil. 224.
Lib. epil. 239.
(incipit cf. Stegmüller, RB, 213,11)
Incipit cf. [Ps.-Marcilia], Vita s. Marthae hospitae Christi (ed.: Mombritius 2. 231; – BHL 5545/5547)
Lib. epil. 252
Lib. epil. 267; incipit cf. also LA 114. 5ff.
Lib. epil. 270. 1–160.
Lib. epil. 275. 1–20.
Lib. epil. 219.
LA 40. 3–10
Lib. epil. 282. 1–183
Lib. epil. 288. 1–71.
LA 129, text may vary, end different.
Lib. epil. 310.
Lib. epil. 312.
Lib. epil. 315. 1–64 (BHL suppl. 3133a)
Lib. epil. 321.
Lib. epil. 325; incipit see also AB 102 (1984) 188.
Lib. epil. 327; incipit cf. also LA 152. 1 & 11 (BHL 4977).
Lib. epil. 328.
(incipit see Mombritius 2. 534 (BHL 7749/7750 & BHL nov. suppl. 7750a), and cf. Stegmüller, RB, 255,15).
Incipit cf. [Sulpicius Severus, Vita s. Martini] (ed. J. Fontaine, SChr 133 (1967; repr. 2004, with add. and corr.) 254; – BHL 5610, etc.; CPL 475), Lib. epil. 341. 1ff., LA 162. 8f. (BHL p. 827, s. v. Martinus ep. Turonensis, 10. Epitomae) and also Mombritius 2. 196, ll. 36ff. (BHL 5610).
Lib. epil. 345.
(incipit cf. BHL 4227).
Lib. epil. 54. 8–30.
Lib. epil. 307.
Lib. epil. 257. 1–184; Acta SS, Aug. I (1733) 559E–61E (BHL 2214)
Lib. epil. 177; see also Acta SS, loc. cit., 526B–D (BHL 2215).
Lib. epil. 149; cf. also LA 58 (BHL p. 777, s. v. Marcellinus presb., 3. Epitomae).
Lib. epil. 155. 1–19.
Incipit (with prothema Lc 11:5) see [Lucas de Bitonto, Sermo in Litaniis maioribus et minoribus] (Schneyer 4. 57. 107).
Lib. epil. 306; see also LA app. 208 (204) (BHL p. 1162, s. v. Thecla, 6. Epitomae), text in part different, and expanded; and BHL nov. suppl. 8024e.
Lib. epil. 243.
LA app. 210 (207) (BHL 2324), text may vary, end different.
Lib. epil. 58.
Incipit see BHL 8145.
Lib. epil. 334. 1–19.
Lib. epil. 274. 1–130, text shortened; incipit cf. also AB 102 (1984) 171.
(incipit cf. BHL 7048)
(incipit cf. BHL 7391 & 7392–94)
Lib. epil. 77; see also Mombritius 2. 343, ll. 1–17 and LA 49. 1–9 (BHL 6514); incipit cf. AB 102 (1984) 367.
Lib. epil. 79.
Lib. epil. 180.
Lib. epil. 32.
Lib. epil. 199
Lib. epil. 1
Lib. epil. 2.
Lib. epil. 10
Lib. epil. 13; incipit cf. also LA 4. 5.
(cf. BHL nov. suppl. 4222d (ed. D. Werner, Pylatus. Untersuchungen zur metrischen lateinischen Pilatuslegende und kritische Textausgabe, Beihefte zum „Mittellateinischen Jahrbuch“ 8 (Ratingen, etc., 1972) 261–68, l. 10)).
LA 45. 13–73 (BHL 5717), text may vary; incipit see also AB 29 (1910) 61: Legendary of Pierre Calo, no. 187.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in ink, two columns of c.32–36. Ruled space c.190–202 × c.124–34 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis of an individual stamp, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand. Several corrections and marginalia, including in a hand from Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv (fols 51r, 54r, 132r & 136ra-rb), which is also responsible for the foliation.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the head of fol. 1r and, in the same hand, at the lower margin of fol. 165v: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope Magunciam(.)’.
William Laud, 1573–1645: The present book consists of seven fascicles, which were likely put together only in the course of the Laudian binding. 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.
Record Sources
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-08-04: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.