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MS. Laud Misc. 400

Summary Catalogue no.: 1363

Peregrinus de Oppeln, Sermones de tempore. Germany, s. xivin.

Contents

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1128–1134. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 1ra–53va)
Peregrinus de Oppeln, Sermones de tempore (pr.: Hain 12580–86, etc.; ed.: Schneyer 4. 548–556, citing the present MS. at p. 557; Kaeppeli 3194).
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 53va–vb)

Note/sermon on the Eucharist, imperfect.

Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 54ra–r)

Sermo de assumptione BMV.

Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 56v)

De Decem Miraculis Corporis Christi, with added pen-trials and Biblical quotation below.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: omne malum
Form: codex
Support: parchment; with remnants of medieval repair on fol. 1 (parchment patches) and on fols 12 and 21 (stitching holes).
Extent: i (17th cent.) + 56 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.230–36 × 166–71 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–56, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i–vii 8

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 35–40 lines. Ruled space c.165–76 × 119–21 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xivin, (fols 1ra–53va) by a single hand. Two hands of s. xiv are responsible for the additions on fols 53va–54rb and 56v. Several marginalia in contemporary hands and s. xv hands from the Mainz Charterhouse. (fol. 23r–v) an early-modern annotator hand.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication; additional marginalia and underlining in red by a s. xv hand from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Binding

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

History

Origin: Early 14th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the head of fol. 1r: ‘Codex iste est Carthusiensium prope magunciam’, and at the centre of fol. 56v, in the same hand: ‘Liber iste est Carthusiensium prope magunciam’.

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

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched 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. 294
Quarto Catalogue, p. 560
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 58

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. 1128–1134

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-07-07: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.