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MS. Laud Misc. 348

Summary Catalogue no.: 1287

Guy d’Evreux, Sermones dominicales & Themata de tempore, de sanctis et de communi sanctorum. Northern France/Paris (?), s. xivin.

Contents

Language(s): Latin

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 998–1010. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1ra–388vb)
Guy d'Evreux, Sermons,

‘Summa Guidonis’ (unpr.; P. Michaud-Quantin, ‘Guy d’Évreux O. P. Technicien du sermonnaire médiéval’, AFP 20 (1950) 213–33, this copy at p. 218, n. 15; Schneyer 2. 319–64, this copy at p. 365; Kaeppeli 1400, citing the present MS.). The rubrics indicating feasts occasionally omitted, incorrect, different from guides and/or (secondarily) corrected. See printed catalogue for full listing.

(fols. 1ra–226r)

Sermones dominicales per circulum anni, with prologue (Schneyer 2. 319–26).

(fols 227ra–284vb)

Themata de tempore (Schneyer 2. 327–42; Kaeppeli 1400, citing the present MS.).

(fols 285ra–365rb)

Themata de sanctis et de communi sanctorum (Schneyer 2. 343–363)

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: le salu nostre dame
Form: codex
Support: parchment; occasionally with medieval repair (stitching), or remnants thereof. Fine, plain or blue-coloured threads horizontally sewn into the outer margins mark the beginning/end of texts (fols 51, 226, 230, 289 and 361).
i (17th-cent.) + 390 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.227–30 × 151–58 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–390 in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. Contemporary foliation in roman numerals at the top left corner of versos, in lead point, (fols 40v–70v) in a different hand, using ink; further foliation (arabic numerals) at the top right corner of rectos, in a hand of s. xv very likely from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Collation

i–xviii 12 | xix 10 | xx–xxx 12 | xxxi 8 | xxxii & xxxiii 12

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of 40 lines. Ruled space c.155–62 × 105–09 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis, s. xivin, by two hands: 1) (fols 1ra–12vb & 367ra–388vb); 2) (fols 13ra–365rb). Marginal corrections and annotations by (near-)contemporary hands, some of which are from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 144:

Initials (fols 1ra, 227ra, 230rb, 281vb & 367ra) in red and blue with pen-flourished decoration and borders.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: Early 14th century ; France, North, Paris (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope magunciam’. Possibly identical with I XVI Qr in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. 1r.

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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 264
Quarto Catalogue, col. 265
Quarto Catalogue, p. 557
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 55

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. 998–1010

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-04: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.