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MS. Laud Misc. 352

Summary Catalogue no.: 1077

Theological composite manuscript. Germany, A) (fols 1–10) Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2; B) (fols 11–72) s. xivin; C) (fols 73–124) Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2; D) (fols 125–144) Mainz Charterhouse (?), s. xiv2/4; E) (fols 145–173) Mainz Charterhouse (?), s. xiv2/4.

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. 1012–1045. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–10) || B) (fols 11–72) || C) (fols 73–124) || D) (fols 125–144) || E) (fols 145–173)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent.) + 173 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i, 1–174, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A) i 10; B) ii–viii 8 | ix 6; C) x 12 | xi–xiv 10; D) xv 8 | xvi 12; E) xvii 10+1 | xviii 10 | xix 8.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: MS. Laud Misc. 352 consists of five Charterhouse books; at least parts A–C were already bound together in the late 14th-cent., see the continuous foliation on fols 5v–124r.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbishop Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1v.

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

MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part A (fols 1–10)

Contents

1. (fols 1r–10vb)
Lives of Saints

Item 1 occupies parts A–C (fols 1r–124vb): a collection of Saints’ lives and legends; usually anonymous texts, only sporadically from Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (ed.: Maggioni; Kaeppeli 2154, citing the present copy; Fleith, Studien, 591) or recorded in AB 102 (1984) 163–96; 355–80 (Inédits et non recensés dans la BHL). The registrum, which is mentioned in the table on fol. 5r (‘Item registrum in fine alligatum’), is missing. For full details see printed catalogue.

(fol. 1r)
Emerentiana
(fol. 1r)
Valerius
(fol. 1r)
Anastasius
(fol. 1v)
Maurus
(fol. 1v)
Marius et Martha
(fol. 1v)
Agnes.

[Ps.-Ambrose, serm. 48: In festo sanctae Agnetis virginis et martyris], excerpt (ed.: PL 17. 701C; – BHL 158 and BHL suppl. 158 & 158a; CPL 180)

(fols 2r–5r)

List of legends, in their order; at the upper margin of fol. 2r, in red: ‘Nota quod legende sanctorum infra scriptorum sunt inueniende per numerum infra signatum sicut patebit.’

(fol. 5va)

prologue (Maggioni 1, pp. 3–5)

(fol. 5vb)
Adventus dni

(LA 1)

(fol. 8va)
Tempus reconciliationis et peregrinatio
(fol. 8vb)
Nativitas dni

(LA 6)

(fol. 10vb)
Stephanus diac. protomartyr.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: homini qui (fol. 6ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment, palimpsested; all leaves, except for fol. 10, show traces of underscript in Hebrew, on widely-spaced lines, written at right angles to the upper text.
Dimensions (leaf): c.226–28 × 155–59 mm.
Foliation: A–C) (fols 5v–124r) late 14th-cent. foliation in red.

Collation

i 10

Layout

(fols 5v ff.) ruling visible in lead-point, two columns of c.41–46 unruled lines. Ruled space c.175–78 × 130–35 mm.

Hand(s)

bastarda, s. xiv2, by a single hand from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half; Germany, Mainz Charterhouse

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Carthusiensium iuxta prope mogunciam’.

MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part B (fols 11–72)

Contents

1. (fols 11ra–72vb)
Lives of Saints

See above. A hand of s. xivex from the Mainz Charterhouse occasionally added rubrics, see printed catalogue for a full listing.

(fol. 11ra)
Stephanus diac. protomartyr.
(fol. 11rb)
Iohannes ap. et ev.
(fol. 12va)
Silvester (BHL 7739; Kaeppeli 612)
(fol. 13va)
Paulus Thebaeus
(fol. 14ra)
Hilarius
(fol. 14va)
Marcellus
(fol. 14vb)
Fabianus
(fol. 14vb)
Sebastianus
(fol. 15ra)
Agnes
(fol. 15va)
Vincentius
(fol. 16ra)
Timotheus
(fol. 16rb)
Conversio s. Pauli.
(fol. 16vb)
Polycarpus
(fol. 17rb)
Brigida
(fol. 17vb)
Blasius
(fol. 18rb)
Agatha
(fol. 18va)
Iuliana
(fol. 18vb)
Valentinus
(fol. 19rb)
Mathias ap.
(fol. 19vb)
Quiriacus (Iudas)

(cf. Acta SS Maii 1 (1680) 449A–50F (BHL 7023; cf. also BHL suppl. and BHL nov. suppl. 7025a & e)

(fol. 20va)
Gregorius.
(fol. 21va)
Gertrudis
(fol. 21vb)
Benedictus
(fol. 22rb)
Ambrosius
(fol. 23ra)
Maria Aegyptiaca
(fol. 24va)
Tiburtius
(fol. 24vb)
Georgius (Cappadox)
(fol. 25rb)
Marcus ev.
(fol. 25va)
Letania maior
(fol. 25vb)
Vitalis
(fol. 26rb)
Philippus ap.
(fol. 26rb)
Iacobus minor
(fol. 26va)
Waldburgis
(fol. 27ra)
Inventio s. crucis
(fol. 27vb)
Alexander papa
(fol. 28rb)
Gordianus.

[Bede, Martyrologium], VI Idus Maii (ed.: PL 94. 908A–909B) and [Ado Viennensis, Martyrologium], VI Idus Maii (ed.: PL 123. 262D–63B)

(fol. 28va)
Pancratius
(fol. 29ra)
Nereus et Achilleus et soc.
(fol. 29rb)
Gangolfus
(fol. 29vb)
Servatius
(fol. 30va)
Urbanus
(fol. 30vb)
Petronella
(fol. 31ra)
Felicula
(fol. 31ra)
Nicomedes
(fol. 31rb)
Marcellinus, Petrus et soc.
(fol. 31vb)
Bonifatius (ep. Moguntinus) (AB 102, p. 172)
(fol. 32ra)
Primus et Felicianus
(fol. 32va)
Basilides, Cyrinus et Nabor.
(fol. 32vb)
Nazarius et soc.
(fol. 33va)
Vitus, Modestus et Crescentia (cf. BHL 8713)
(fol. 34va)
Marcus et Marcellianus (AB 102, pp. 359f.)
(fol. 34vb)
Albanus (ed.: Acta SS Oct. xiii (1883) 337F–38B; – BHL 8112 (Theonestus ep. et soc.))
(fol. 35ra)
Iohannes et Paulus
(fol. 35va)
Septem dormientes
(fol. 36rb)
Petrus et Paulus
(fol. 37rb)
Processus et Martinianus (AB 102, p. 370)
(fol. 37vb)
Kilianus
(fol. 38rb)
Septem fratres
(fol. 38va)
Margareta.
(fol. 39rb)
Alexius
(fol. 40ra)
Symphorianus (cf. PG 10. 95–98)
(fol. 40va)
Maria Magdalena
(fol. 40vb)
Apollinaris (ep. Ravennas)
(fol. 42ra)
Iacobus maior
(fol. 42vb)
Simplicius, Faustinus et Beatrix
(fol. 43ra)
Felix II papa
(fol. 43ra)
Abdon et Sennen.

Cf. [Ado Viennensis, Martyrologium], III Kal. Augusti (ed.: PL 123. 310C–11B)

(fol. 43rb)
Ad vincula s. Petri
(fol. 44ra)
Inventio s. Stephani protomartyris
(fol. 44vb)
Sixtus II. papa
(fol. 45rb)
Afra et soc.
(fol. 46ra)
Cyriacus et soc.
(fol. 46vb)
Laurentius diac.
(fol. 47rb)
Tiburtius
(fol. 47va)
Hippolytus
(fol. 47vb)
Agapitus (ed.: Mombritius 1. 35–37, l. 14, text in part different)
(fol. 48rb)
Bartholomaeus ap.
(fol. 49ra)
Augustinus
(fol. 49vb)
Decollatio s. Iohannis
(fol. 50rb)
Verena
(fol. 50vb)
Aegidius
(fol. 51va)
Prothus et Hyacinthus
(fol. 51vb)
Exaltatio s. crucis
(fol. 52va)
Cyprianus (AB 102, p. 178)
(fol. 52vb)
Cornelius papa.

Summary of BHL 1958 (ed.: Mombritius 1. 373, ll. 2–54)

(fol. 53ra)
Matthaeus ap.
(fol. 54ra)
Mauritius et soc.
(fol. 54vb)
Cosmas et Damianus
(fol. 55ra)
Michael
(fol. 55vb)
Hieronymus presb.
(fol. 56rb)
Remigius
(fol. 57ra)
Dionysius, Rusticus et Eleutherius
(fol. 58ra)
Gereon et soc.
(fol. 58rb)
Callistus
(fol. 58vb)
Gallus
(fol. 59va)
Lucas ev.
(fol. 59vb)
Undecim milia virginum
(fol. 60va)
Crispinus et Crispinianus
(fol. 61rb)
Symeon et Iudas
(fol. 62va)
Eustachius
(fol. 63rb)
Theodorus (tiro)
(fol. 63vb)
Martinus ep.

[Sulpicius Severus, Vita s. Martini], 2.1–11.5, abridgement (ed.: PL 20. 161B–67A; ed. J. Fontaine, SChr 133 (1967, repr. 2004 with add. and corr.) 254–76; – BHL 5610, 5611–16; CPL 475–77)

(fol. 65vb)
Briccius
(fol. 66ra)
Caecilia
(fol. 67ra)
Clemens I papa
(fol. 67va)
Crisegonus
(fol. 67vb)
Andreas
(fol. 68va)
Nicolaus
(fol. 69rb)
Lucia
(fol. 70ra)
Thomas ap.
(fol. 71ra)
Catharina
(fol. 72rb)
Tractatus de confessione

(ed.: P. Michaud-Quantin, ‘Deux formulaires pour la confession du milieu du XIIIe siècle’, RThAM 31 (1964) 43–62, at pp. 57–62, ed. at pp. 60–62; – Shooner 1. 915; Bloomfield 221, and suppl., or 222 respectively, and 4125). The present text varies greatly from that of the edition,

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: beatus iohannes (fol. 12ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.222–26 × 153–60 mm.
Foliation: A–C) (fols 5v–124r) late 14th-cent. foliation in red.

Collation

ii–viii 8 | ix 6

Layout

Ruling in lead point (fols 11ra–46rb) and ink (fols 46va–72vb), two columns of 35–37 lines. Ruled space c.168–75 × 120–24 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xivin, by several hands.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: Early 14th century; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: see Foliation above.

MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part C (fols 73–124)

Contents

1. (fols 73ra–124vb)
Lives of Saints

See above. For a full listing, see printed catalogue.

(fol. 73ra)
Cathedra s. Petri

(LA 44. 1–96)

(fol. 74rb)
Praxedis

(LA 91. 3–5); a shortened version of Acta SS Iul. v (1727) 130C–D, follows.

(fol. 74rb)
Sermo de Cathedra s. Petri

(Schneyer 7. 80. 22)

(fol. 76va)
Thomas martyr

(LA 11)

(fol. 77rb)
Felix in pincis

(LA 19)

(fol. 77vb)
Antonius

(LA 21. 1–8; 10–122)

(fol. 78vb)
Lambertus (ep. Traiectensis) (ed.: Mombritius 2. 92; text in part slightly different) .
(fol. 79ra)
Innocentes (LA 10. 7–84)
. (fol. 80ra)
Christina

(LA 94)

(fol. 80va)

Christophorus (LA 96).

(fol. 82ra)

Macarius (LA 18. 5–61).

(fol. 82va)
Vedastus

(LA 40. 3–11)

(fol. 82vb)
Amandus (LA 41. 9–30)
(fol. 83ra)
Ignatius

(LA 36. 2–73)

(fol. 83vb)
Longinus

(LA 47)

(fol. 84ra)

Marcellinus (LA 58).

(fol. 84rb)
Barnabas

(LA 76. 14–85)

(fol. 85rb)
Gervasius et Prothasius

(LA 80. 8–53)

(fol. 86ra)
Iohannes Baptista

(LA 81)

(fol. 88ra)
Leo papa

(LA 83)

(fol. 88va)
Pantaleon
(fol. 88vb)
Stephanus papa

LA 107)

(fol. 88vb)

Eusebius (LA 104)

(fol. 89va)
Dominicus
(fol. 90rb)
Donatus

(LA 111. 6–53)

(fol. 91ra)
Bernardus

(LA 116)

(fol. 93vb)
Felix presb.
(fol. 93vb)
Gorgonius et Dorotheus

(LA 129)

(fol. 94ra)
Euphemia (LA 134)
(fol. 94va)
Bilihildis (BHL 1331)
(fol. 95rb)
Divisio apostolorum.

[Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia], hom. 1. 4 (ed.: PL 76. 1090B–C; ed. R. Étaix, CCSL 141 (1999) 28, ll. 37–60; – Stegmüller, RB, 2646; CPPM 2. 2289; CPL 1711)

(fol. 95va)
Iohannes Chrysostomus

(LA 132)

(fol. 97va)
Leodegarus ep.

(ed.: Mombritius 2. 103; – BHL p. 723, s. v. Leodegarius ep. Augustodunensis, 7. Epitomae)

(fol. 98ra)
Franciscus

(LA 145)

(fol. 101ra)
Leonardus

(LA 151. 12–87)

(fol. 101vb)
Crisantus (Chrysanthus) (LA 153)
(fol. 102ra)
Quintinus

(LA 156. 1–9)

(fol. 102ra)
Quatuor coronati

(LA 160)

(fol. 102ra)
Saturninus
(fol. 102va)
Arsenius

(LA 174)

(fol. 103ra)
Dorothea

LA app. 210 (207) (ed.: Graesse 910, l. 1–911, l. 65; – BHL 2324)

(fol. 103va)
Barbara

(see MS. Laud Misc. 173, fols 65r–70v)

(fol. 104va)
Elizabeth
(fol. 104vb)
Scholastica (ed.: Acta SS Feb. ii (1658) 402A; Graesse 885–886, l. 5 (LA app. 196 (193))
(fol. 104vb)
Prisca
(fol. 105ra)
Purificatio BMV

(LA 37)

(fol. 107ra)
Annuntiatio dni

(LA 50)

(fol. 108rb)
Assumptio BMV

(LA 115)

(fol. 113rb)
Nativitas BMV

(LA 127. 1–180)

(fol. 115va)
Conceptio BMV
(fol. 116ra)
Sermo de conceptione BMV
(fol. 116rb)
Commemoratio BMV
(fol. 116vb)
Omnes sancti

(LA 158)

(fol. 119ra)
Commemoratio omnium fidelium defunctorum

(LA 159. 1–238)

(fol. 121rb)
Magnus (Magnoaldus) (BHL 5164)
(fol. 121vb)
Columbanus
(fol. 122rb)
Severinus (ed.: Acta SS Oct. x (1861) 58C–D (BHL 7647/48))
(fol. 122rb)
Athanasius (ep. Alexandrinus)
(fol. 122va)
Corpus Christi.

[Thomas Aquinas, Officium de corpore Christi], lectiones 1–6 (ed. C. Lambot, ‘L’office de la Fête-Dieu. Aperçus nouveaux sur ses origines’, RB 54 (1942) 61–123, at pp. 75–79)

(fol. 123rb)
Corpus Christi.

[Thomas Aquinas, Officium de corpore Christi], lectiones 7–9 (ed. C. Lambot, loc. cit., 80–81)

(fol. 123vb)
Translatio s. Benedicti
(fol. 123vb)
Germanus
(fol. 124ra)
Genewaldi
(fol. 124ra)
Sergius et Bacchus
(fol. 124rb)
Amandus
(fol. 124va)
Thecla
(fol. 124vb)
Ianuarius
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: beatus iohannes (fol. 12ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fols 93, 123 & 124) remnants of medieval repair (sewing).
Dimensions (leaf): c.225–31 × 156–60 mm.
Foliation: A–C) (fols 5v–124r) late 14th-cent. foliation in red.

Collation

x 12 | xi–xiv 10

Layout

Ruling in faint lead point, in two columns of c.45–53 unruled lines. Ruled space c.178–85 × 127–31 mm.

Hand(s)

bastarda, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half; Germany, Mainz Charterhouse

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: see Foliation above.

MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part D (fols 125–144)

Contents

2. (fols 125ra–144ra)
Commentary on Gregorian sequences

Expositio sequentiarum et hymnorum (Little 230 (‘Anon. in Greg. sequentias’, this copy)

(fol. 144v) entries in the lower margin: De proprietatibus iuniperis and verses.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: in qua dies (fol. 126ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 134) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
Dimensions (leaf): c.209–30 × 156–60 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–174, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

xv 8 | xvi 12

Layout

Ruling in lead point and ink, two columns of 43 or 44 lines. Ruled space c.181–85 × 122–27 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand, possibly from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter; Germany, Mainz Charterhouse(?)

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 144v: ‘Iste liber est domus sancti Michahelis prope magunciam ordinis carthusiensis. restituetis post mortem Et psalterium paruum quem concessit michi. dominus cristianus. Et formulam nouiciorum quam dictauit frater dauid. quod concessit mihi dominus gotfridus. quando fuimus in noua fundacione in luthomussel. Et algorismum[?] [erasure] valete in cristo’; and at the lower margin: ‘Iste liber est domus Sancti Michahel prope mogunciam ordinis carthusiensis. quem concessit mihi Iohannes laupach [sic] existens prior [expunged, and cancelled: beate marie] Rubi beate Marie prope luthomussel superiori almania. bohemie’. According to these inscriptions, the present fascicle belonged to the Mainz Charterhouse, after it had been given to an unnamed Carthusian by first prior of the Charterhouse in Leitomichl, Iohann von Lampach. To be returned to (presumably) the Mainz Charterhouse after his death were furthermore a Psalterium parvum, given to him by dominus Christianus, a copy of David of Augsburg’s Formula novitiorum, given to him by dominus Gotfridus, when they were at the newly founded Charterhouse Leitomichl, as well as an (unspecified) ‘algorismum’.

MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part E (fols 145–173)

Contents

3. (fols 145ra–169va)
Commentary on Canticles

Glossa super cantica sacra et hymnos.

Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 169va–170vb)
Prayers and hymns

See printed catalogue for listing.

Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 171ra–rb)
Verses

Versus contra feminam (Walther, IC, 12211, citing the present MS. (s. xiv); Walther, Proverbia, 18666a)

(fol. 171rb) below: Marbode of Rennes, Poems. Carmina, 13: Commendatio virtutum per comparationem (ed.: PL 171. 1653D–54A; ed. H. Hagen, Carmina medii aevi maximam patrem inedita (Bern, 1877) no. 106; – Chevalier 41533; Walther, IC, 20475, citing the present MS)
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 173va–vb)
Treatise on the Virgin Mary

Septem gaudia BMV, attributed to Philip the Chancellor (ed.: Mone, Lateinische Hymnen, 2. 457; ed. G. G. Meersseman, Der Hymnos Akathistos im Abendland, II. Gruß-Psalter, Gruß-Orationen, Gaude-Andachten und Litaneien, Spicilegium Friburgense 3 (Fribourg, 1960) 195–99; Chevalier 21899, citing the present MS.; Glorieux, Rép., 119d7; Walther, IC, 20560; cf. also 20561; Wilmart 329, n. 1)

(fol. 173vb, l. 24) followed by a prayer.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: uel typice (fol. 146ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 166) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
Dimensions (leaf): c.224–28 × 157–60 mm.

Collation

xvii 10+1 | xviii 10 | xix 8

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of usually 44 lines. Ruled space c.182–84 × 122–27 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2/4 (from the Mainz Charterhouse?).

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter; Germany, Mainz Charterhouse(?)

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower left-hand margin of fol. 145r: ‘Codex carthusiensium moguntie’; a hand contemporary to the text hand inserted in the lower left-hand margin of fol. 154v: ‘moguncia’.

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).

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. 1012–1045

Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-05: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.