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MS. Laud Misc. 317

Summary Catalogue no.: 1166

Bertold of Regensburg, Rusticanus de sanctis; De communi sanctorum (Sermons). Germany, s. xivin.

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. 867–877. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1ra–444rb)
Berthold of Regensburg, Sermons

Selection of sermons mostly from the Rusticanus de sanctis and De communi sanctorum, two from the Sermones ad religiosos collections, see printed catalogue for items listed in full (Casutt, Predigten Bertholds, 33 (no. 167); Schneyer 1. 478–92 and 497f., citing the present MS. at pp. 493 and 504). Contemporary parchment pieces inserted between leaves containing sermons by Nicholas de Gorran (fol. 22*r), Servasanctus de Faenza (fols 158*r and 424*v) and others.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -tibus mundicie
Form: codex
Support: parchment; bookmark made of blue thread sewn into the outer centre marks the beginning of the Communale or Sanctorale respectively. Six small contemporary parchment pieces inserted between leaves (fols 2/23 (the small stub between 14/15); 50/51 and 58/59; 76/77 and 80/81; 158/159 and 168/169; 173/174 and 177/178; 424/425 and 432/433) containing sermons.
Extent: ii (17th cent.) + 444 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.176–84 × 131–42 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–444, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. Near-contemporary foliation in red arabic numerals at the top centre of rectos.

Collation

i–xi 12 | xii 14-1 | xiii–xxxi 12 | xxxii 14-1 | xxxiii–xxxvi 12 | xxxvii 10

Layout

Ruling in ink or lead point, (fols 200v–201r) in both; two columns of 31 or 32 lines. Ruled space c.137–51 × 97–104 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xivin, by six hands: 1) (fols 1ra–36vb, l. 12; 94va, l. 20–98ra, l. 13; 145ra–193va, l. 7; 230ra–255rb and 313va–444rb); 2) (fols 36vb, l. 14–94va, l. 19 and 255va– 277va); 3) (fols 98ra, l. 13–132vb); 4) (fols 133ra–144vb); 5) (fol. 193va, l. 7–vb); 6) (fols 194ra– 228va and 278ra–313rb). Marginalia in contemporary and later hands; some hands s. xv are from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Reversed tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639. Seven slits from a previous binding visible.

History

Origin: Early 14th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper centre of fol. 444v: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’ (partly boxed in).

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. i verso.

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

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. 247–8
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 50

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. 867–877

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-23: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.