MS. Laud Misc. 296

Summary Catalogue no.: 1157

1. (fol. 1)

John de Waldeby, Itinerarium salutis

Incipit: Pater noster ... Hec epistola est supplicatoria et dividitur in tres partes

Final rubric: Explicit Itenerarium Salutis feliciter

For the preface see art. 4 below.

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 37v)

John de Waldeby, Salutatio angelica

Incipit: Vas electionis; Paulus doctor gencium

Incipit: Ave Maria ... Hic ponitur aliquid plus quam quod Angelus

Final rubric: Feliciter finit opus

Language(s): Latin

3. (fol. 57)

John de Waldeby, Homilies on the Apostles' Creed

Rubric: Incipit simbolum fratris Johannis Waldeby, ordinis heremitarum.

Incipit: Cum in loco Sancto Tynnemouth, ubi regis et martiris Oswini

Incipit: Credo, Domine ... Consideranti et eciam superficialiter

Incipit: Iste articulus repellit tres errores

Final rubric: Super simbolum fidei secundum fratrem Joh. W aldeby exposicio feliciter finit ; Deo gracias

Language(s): Latin

4. (fol. 81v)

Incipit: Scribitur Ecclesiast. xxxiii. sic, Contra malum bonum est

Fols. 81v-84v are the preface to art. 1 above.

Language(s): Latin

5. (fol. 85)

Johann Nider, Manuale confessorum

Rubric: Eximii sacre theologie professoris fratris Johannis Nider, ordinis Prsedicatorum, Manuale Confessorum ad instruccionem spiritualium pastorum

Incipit: Quoniam juxta beati Gregorii in sua Pastorali sentenciam

Final rubric: Manuale Confessorum ad spiritualium pastorum instruccionem feliciter finit

Followed by table of chapters, ending 'Huic libello calamus felices dedit exitus, prandez en gre.'

Language(s): Latin

6. (fol. 129)

On the articles of the creed

Incipit: Omnes articuli secundam quosdam 14 esse dicuntur

Language(s): Latin

7. (fol. 135)

Notabilia et Legenda varia

Incipit: In historia Antiocena recitatur de illo Sancto Patre

Explicit: coram cano capite consurge et honora personam senis

Language(s): Latin

8. (fol. 162)

Three (?) Latin poems on the virtues of wine

Incipit: Ausculta care volo versibus hic reserare

Explicit: De Gloucestre ducis reverende receptor aveto, | Ac in honore crucis Christi mea metra videto.

Final rubric: Prandez en gre

The first poem is Walther 1857, this manuscript only. The third (fol. 162v) mentions the duke of Gloucester and names its author as John Matthew, presumably the monk of Glastonbury.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 162 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 323–8 × 221–4 mm.

Layout

2 cols.

Hand(s)

Perhaps written by Patrick Grey, monk of St Augustine's Canterbury: 'prandez en gre' may be his motto (see Barker-Benfield).

Additions:

Annotated by Clement Canterbury.

Binding

English binding, c. 1620; gilt wreath on front and back.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Liber domini Willelmi Sellyng quondam abbatis monasterii sancti Augustini extra muros Civitatis Cantuarie. qui obiit Anno domini. M o CCCCLXXX Et est liber de librario dicti monasterii. D G a C. T." (front of fol. 1r). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

William Laud, by 1633.

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885) with additional reference to published literature as cited..

Quarto Catalogue, col. 236

Quarto Catalogue, col. 237

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 50