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MS. Laud Misc. 378

Summary Catalogue no.: 964

Theological and Liturgical Miscellany. Germany, s. xiv2/4.

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. 1075–1082. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 1r–49v)
Saints' Lives and Legends

Most texts represent Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (ed.: Maggioni, 2 vols; – Kaeppeli 2154) (=LA). For full details, see printed catalogue.

(fol. 1r)
Assumptio BMV (LA 115. 1–244)
(fol. 2r)
Nativitas BMV (127. 1–98)
(fol. 3r)
Exaltatio s. crucis (131. 1–69)
(fol. 3v)
Michael (141)
(fol. 4v)
Omnes sancti (158)
(fol. 5v)
Commemoratio omnium fidelium defunctorum (159. 1–214)
(fol. 6r)
Dedicatio ecclesiae (178)
(fol. 7r)
Immolatio hostiae
(fol. 7r)
De adventu domini
(fol. 8r)
Georgius

[Ps.-Albertus Magnus], Sermo de s. Georgio (Schneyer 1. 120. 379)

(fol. 8v)
Inventio s. crucis

[Ps.-Albertus Magnus], Sermo in inventione s. crucis (Schneyer 1. 120. 382)

(fol. 9v)

LA prol. (ed.: Maggioni 1, pp. 3–5); fol. 9v, l. 34 immediately following De quindecim signis diei iudicii

(fol. 9v)
Adventus dni (LA 1)
(fol. 10v)
Andreas (2)
(fol. 12r)
Nicolaus (3. 1–167)
(fol. 14r)
Thomas ap. (5)
(fol. 15r)
Tempus reconciliationis et peregrinationis
(fol. 15r)
Nativitas dni (6)
(fol. 17r)
Stephanus diac. protomartyr (8)
(fol. 18r)
Iohannes ap. (9)
(fol. 19r)
Innocentes martyres (10. 1–7)
(fol. 19v)
Circumcisio dni (13. 1–169)
(fol. 20r)
Epiphania dni (14)
(fol. 21r)
Conversio s. Pauli (28)
(fol. 21r)
Ieiunia quatuor temporum (35)
(fol. 21v)
Purificatio BMV (37)
(fol. 23r)
Matthias ap. (45)
(fol. 24r)
Annuntiatio dni (50)
(fol. 25v)
Passio dni (51. 1–181)
(fol. 27r)
Resurrectio dni (52)
(fol. 28r)
Georgius (56)
(fol. 29r)
Marcus ev. (57. 1–69)
(fol. 30r)
Philippus ap. (62)
(fol. 30v)
Iacobus ap. (63. 1–92)
(fol. 31v)
Inventio s. crucis (64)
(fol. 32v)
Laetania maior et minor (66. 1–75)
(fol. 33r)
Ascensio dni (67)
(fol. 33v)
Emissio spiritus sancti (68)
(fol. 35r)
Vitus et Modestus (77)
(fol. 35v)
Iohannes Baptista (81)
(fol. 36v)
Petrus ap. (84. 1–301)
(fol. 38r)
Paulus ap. (85. 1–136)
(fol. 38v)
Maria Magdalena (92. 1–195)
(fol. 41r)
Iacobus maior (95)
(fol. 42v)
Tempus deviationis
(fol. 42v, l. 45)
Septuagesima (31. 1–27)
(fol. 43r)
Sexagesima (32)
(fol. 43v)
Quinquagesima (33)
(fol. 43v)
Quadragesima (34)
(fol. 44r)
Quiriacus (Iudas) (78. 1–27)
(fol. 44r)
Laurentius (113. 1–196)
(fol. 45v)
Bartholomaeus ap. (119. 1–125)
(fol. 46v)
Aegidius (123. 1–34)
(fol. 47r)
Matthaeus ap. (136. 1–114)
(fol. 47v)
Simon et Iudas (155. 1–132)
(fol. 48v)
Martinus (162. 1–207)
2. (fols 49v–51r)
Treatise on the Eucharist

Sermo de Corpore Christi (Schneyer 9. 405. 77).

3. (fols 51r–53v)
Bernard of Clairvaux, Homiliae quattuor super Missus est (ed.: PL 183. 55B–84D; SBO 4 (1966) 13–55, l. 15; – Stegmüller RB, 1726; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 457; Schneyer 1. 442. 8–12). Text shortened.
4. (fols 53v–54v, l. 32)
Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis

Condensation, in the range of 1. 1–2. 9 (ed.: PL 217. 701C–20C; ed. M. Maccarrone (Lugano, 1955) 7–45, with a list of MSS at pp. x–xx, citing the present MS. at p. xvi, ‘Bod1’; R. E. Lewis (Athens, GA, 1978) 92–233, with a list of MSS at pp. 236–53, the present MS. at p. 246, siglum ‘O15’; Little 79 & 190; A. Nagy, De tractatu de miseria humanae conditionis Inocentii papae III (Budapest, 1943), with a list of MSS at pp. 105–140; M. Maccarrone, ‘New manuscripts of Lotario’s treatise “De miseria humane conditionis”’, IMU 4 (1961) 167–73 (pp. 167–70 by K. V. Sinclair), list of MSS at pp. 171–73; Bloomfield 1753, and suppl.).

Note in a hand of s. xv from the Charterhouse in the lower margin of fol. 53v: ‘liber iste qui hic intitulatur cito deficit. quia de alia materia tractat’.

5. (fols 54v, l. 32–77r)
Theological treatises and excerpts

Mostly excerpts from Bernard of Clairvaux, sermons on the Passion, etc.

6. (fol. 77v)
Theological treatises

Three short theological treatises/excerpts.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: beate marie
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of sewing, (fol. 73) stitching preserved, with plain thread.
i (17th-cent.) + 79 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.209–17 × 150–60 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–79, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

i–vii 8 | viii 10 | ix 8 | x 6-1

Layout

Ruling in ink and lead point, one column of c.34–53 lines. Ruled space c.166–73 × 120–25 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis cursiva, s. xiv2/4, by several hands.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red, sometimes decorated, (fols 67v, 68r & 76v) with faces, in the ink of text.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 1r: ‘Codex carthusiensium moguncie’.

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

Donated to the Bodleian as part of his third donation of 1638, sent 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, col. 283
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 40

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. 1075–1082

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-08: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.