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MS. Laud Misc. 380

Summary Catalogue no.: 962

Thomas Brito, Sermones de communi sanctorum; Iohannes Herolt, Sermones de sanctis. A) (fols 1–100(a)) France, c.1300; B) (fols 100(b)–130) Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv.

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. 1084–1095. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–100(a)) || B) (fols 100(b)–130)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii (17th-cent.) + 131 + iii (17th-cent.) leaves (fol. 100 doubled (fols 100(a) & 100(b)))
Foliation: i–iii, 1–133 in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A) i–vii 12 | viii & ix 8; B) x 14-3 | xi 12 | xii 12-4.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: MS. Laud Misc. 380 consists of two parts, which were presumably consolidated only in the course of the Laudian binding. Ex-libris inscription of Archbishop Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

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

MS. Laud Misc. 380 – Part A (fols 1–100(a))

Contents

1. (fols 1ra–100(a)vb)
Thomas Brito, Sermones de communi sanctorum (Summa Praecinxisti)

(Schneyer 5. 663–70, nos 501–599, this copy at p. 670; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 410; Kaeppeli 3812, b).

The sermons are written in Latin interspersed with French proverbs and expressions.

(fol. 100(a)va–vb) Tabula with prothemata listed in their order, arranged by feasts. The foliator hand added folio numbers to each entry.
Colophon: (fol. 100(a)vb, underlined in red) Explicit summa que uocatur precinxisti Guillelmus de mazalan ⟨com⟩pleuit illud opus.’

MS. Laud Misc. 380 (A) is a pecia manuscript, see the indications of (altogether 47) peciae in the margins and also the note on fol. 31r, where the scribes change: ‘scripsit xii pecias et dimidium’.

Language(s): Latin and Old French

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -uit eum uirtute (fol. 2ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 65) stitching preserved, with natural-coloured thread; (fol. 42) part of the outer margin repaired with a parchment patch.
Dimensions (leaf): c.224–39 × 160–70 mm.
Foliation: A contemporary French hand provided foliation in roman numerals, 1–100, in between two dots, in the top outer corner.

Collation

i–vii 12 | viii & ix 8

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of usually 49 lines. Ruled space c.176–184 × 114–21 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis, small and compressed, c.1300, by two professional hands, below top line; most of the 47 peciae indicated as such in the margins, by the scribe: A1) (fols 1ra–31rb) a note in the lower right-hand margin of fol. 31r marks the change of scribes (pecia system): ‘scripsit xii pecias et dimidium’; A2) (fols 31va–100(a)vb) the scribe identifies himself as ‘Guillelmus de mazalan’ on fol. 100(a)vb (see item 1). A contemporary French hand is also responsible for marginal annotations and the foliation (see above). A hand from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv added corrections and annotations on fols 27va–28vb, 29vb–30va & 36ra–37va.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: c.1300; France. Written in a stationery, the manuscript consists of 47 peciae (see the note on fol. 31r).

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r, (inappropriately) added to the scribal entry ‘adsit principio sancta maria meo.’: ‘Et est Cartusiensium prope magunciam’, and, in the same hand, at the upper margin of fol. 100(a)v: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope magunciam’.

MS. Laud Misc. 380 – Part B (fols 100(b)–130)

Contents

2. (fols 101ra–130ra)
Johannes Herolt, Sermones de sanctis (pr.: Hain 8473–8508, etc.; this copy compared with Strasbourg, 1488; Schneyer, Beobachtungen, 52f.; Kaeppeli 2388, citing the present MS.; Schneyer II, s. v. Johannes Herolt (Discipulus) OP nos 185–200).
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: exaudiat Quia (fol. 102ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fols 105 & 119) stitching preserved, with natural-coloured thread.
Dimensions (leaf): c.237–39 × 173–78 mm.

Collation

x 14-3 | xi 12 | xii 12-4

Layout

Ruling in lead point; two columns of c.43–49 lines without ruling. Ruled space c.182–196 × 123–130 mm.

Hand(s)

bastarda, s. xv, by a single hand from the Mainz Charterhouse. Several marginal annotations.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Germany, Mainz Charterhouse. Script is similar to hand A1 of MS. Laud Misc. 202.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: there is no ex-libris inscription; the script, however, locates the fascicle at the Mainz Charterhouse.

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. 284
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. 1084–1095

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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