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MS. Laud Misc. 318

Summary Catalogue no.: 1206

Sermons. Germany, A) (fols 1–64) s. xivin; B) (fols 65–220) s. xiv1/4.

Physical Description

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 880–896. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–64) || B) (fols 65–220)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent.) + 220 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i, 1–221, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. Medieval foliation in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Collation

A) i–iii 10 | iv 12 | v 10 | vi 10+(4-2); B) vii & viii 8 | ix & x 12 | xi 8 | xii & xiii 12 | xiv 8 | xv 12 | xvi 10 | xvii–xx 12 | xxi 8-2. Paper slip inserted between fols 52/53, its stub between fols 64/65 (parts A/B).

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: The present book consists of two, originally independent parts, which were possibly bound together already at the Mainz Charterhouse, at the latest in the 15th century, as they share the same foliating hand (from the Charterhouse, s. xv). At the upper left-hand margin (fol. i recto) a 15th-cent. shelfmark from the Mainz Charterhouse: ‘a xxxvi’. The shelfmark does not belong to this copy: fol. i is a medieval waste leaf from the Charterhouse, which was reused as front flyleaf by the Laudian binder.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbishop Laud, 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.

MS. Laud Misc. 318 – Part A (fols 1–64)

Contents

1. (fols 1ra–64v)
Guilelmus Peraldus, Sermones de epistolis dominicarum

The sermons are listed in Schneyer 9. 49–52 as ‘Sermones anonymi’, after this copy. Most of these are, in fact, identical with Guilelmus Peraldus, Sermones de dominicis et festis (pr. Augsburg 1473, etc.; pr. in Guillelmi Alverni opera omnia (Paris/Orleans, 1674) 2. 159–476; Glorieux, Rép., 141ae (Ps.-William of Auvergne); Schneyer 2. 571; 547–50; Glorieux, Arts, 165; Kaeppeli 1623). See printed catalogue for full listing.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Huius similitudinis (fol. 2ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; occasional medieval repair: mostly fine stitching, in plain thread.
Dimensions (leaf): c.173–80 × 119–28 mm.
Foliation: medieval foliation in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse, at the top centre (intercolumnar space), in arabic numerals; the same hand responsible for the numbering 1–81 of B) fols 65r–145r.

Collation

i–iii 10 | iv 12 | v 10 | vi 10+(4-2). Paper slip inserted between fols 52/53, its stub between fols 64/65 (parts A/B).

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 41 lines. Ruled space c.135–37 × 88–89 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xivin, by two hands, changing at fol. 55rb. Corrections and marginal annotations by several contemporary and 15th-cent. hands; the one annotating on fol. 9r is a typical Charterhouse hand.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: Early 14th century; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the fascicle lacks any ex-libris inscription of the Charterhouse, but shares a foliator hand from the Charterhouse with part B (see Foliation above).

MS. Laud Misc. 318 – Part B (fols 65–220)

Contents

1. (fols 65ra–220ra)
Hugh of Saint-Cher, Sermones de evangeliis dominicalibus (pr.: Hain 8994–9008; Little 72 (anon.); Schneyer 2. 758–65, this copy at p. 766; Schneyer, Beobachtungen, 39f.; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 137; Kaeppeli 1991 A; cf. Bloomfield 1601, and suppl.). For full listing, see printed catalogue.
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 220rb–v)
Theological text (on the ten commandments)
Rubric: Expositio brevis de decem praeceptis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: daniel. x. (fol. 66ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; occasionally remnants of medieval repair, (fols 90, 99 & 140) stitching preserved, in natural-coloured thread. (fol. 220v) A rust stain at the lower outer margin, from a fore-edge catch or anchor plate of a previous binding. (fol. 84) Bookmark: natural-coloured thread sewn into the lower outer margin, at Holy Prepuce.
Dimensions (leaf): c.170–80 × 125–36 mm.
Foliation: (fols 65r–145r) medieval foliation in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse, at the top centre (intercolumnar space), in arabic numerals: 1–81. The same hand foliated fascicle A, see above.

Collation

vii & viii 8 | ix & x 12 | xi 8 | xii & xiii 12 | xiv 8 | xv 12 | xvi 10 | xvii–xx 12 | xxi 8-2. Paper slip inserted between fols 52/53, its stub between fols 64/65 (parts A/B).

Layout

(fols 65ra–220rb) ruling in ink, two columns of 25 or 27 lines, (fol. 220v) no ruling, written in one column. Ruled space c.120–35 × 86–92 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv1/4, by mainly one hand, which begins to write on fol. 69va. Sporadic marginalia in hands of s. xiv & xv, occasionally also in lead point, or typical Charterhouse ink (see e.g. fols 210v–211r).

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, first quarter; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 65r: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope magunciam’. See also Foliation above.

Additional Information

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, col. 248
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 52

Digital Images

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Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 880–896

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-01: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.