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MS. Laud Misc. 382

Summary Catalogue no.: 1344

Breviary; Germany, 15th century

Contents

(fols. 1r–306v)
Breviary (portable breviary, winter part, local use)
(fols. 1r–195v)

Temporale to Easter, ending with Holy Saturday

Incipit: Si A que ponitur tercio nonas Decembris(?) fuerit littera Dominicalis
Explicit: non dubitauit manibus tradi nocentium et crucis subire tormentum. Amen.
(fols. 196r–202v)

Hymnal

Incipit: Conditor alme syderum, eterna lux credentium
Explicit: resoluit nostra crimina Deo patri sit gloria.
(fols. 203r–269v)

Sanctorale from St Andrew to St Gregory

Rubric: Incipit pars hyemalis de sanctis
Incipit: Primo in vigilia sancti Andree ... In illo tempore. Stabat Iohannes et ex discipulis eius duo
Explicit: et exultemus dicentes gloria tibi Domine.
(fols. 269v–306v)

Commune Sanctorum, incomplete

Rubric: Incipit commune sanctorum.
Incipit: Ad nonam. An(tiphona) In paciencia vestra. Sequitur capitulum de apostolis. Beatus vir qui inventus est sine macula
Explicit: qui earum quedam de virginitate sua ||
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 1 + 306 + 1 + i
Dimensions (leaf): 230–235 × 150–155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165–180 × 95–110 mm.

Layout

27–30 long lines.

Hand(s)

Cursiva.

Decoration

Small red and blue initials, few small puzzle initials.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 15th century ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen and Matthew Holford (March 2020) from the following sources (with additional descriptioin of decoration, and physical description):
S. J. P. van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II: Office Books (1957), p. 293 [contents, physical description]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition; date, origin]
W. H. Frere, Bibliotheca musico-liturgica: a descriptive hand list of the musical and Latin-liturgical MSS of the Middle Ages, preserved in the libraries of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1901), p. 18 [contents].

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2020-03-05: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.