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
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
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 293
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-03-05: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.