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MS. Laud Misc. 408

Summary Catalogue no.: 1189

Sermons. Germany, s. xiv1.

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. 1143–1157. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1ra–138vb)
Sermones dominicales pars aestivalis

Pentecost to Dnca 25 post trin. The collection originally ascribed to Jacobus de Voragine in header on fol. 1r. Feasts mostly indicated, often by annotating hands. See full listing in printed catalogue.

Identified authors include Lucas de Bitonto, Ludovicus OFM, and Berthold of Regensburg.

Rubric: Hic incipiunt sermones. Iacobi de voragine. Amen. [s. xiv ex.]

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: hoc donum
Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper; (quires i–ix) some medieval remnants of repair, (quires x–xvii) watermarks.
iii (17th-cent.) + 138 + iii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.214–22 × 146–54 mm.
Foliation: i–iii, 1–141, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i–vii 8 | viii & ix 8-1 | x–xvi 8 | xvii 12. Quires x–xvii made of paper.

Layout

Ruling in ink, mostly two columns, of c.41–44 lines. Ruled space c.162–70 × 112–18 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv1, a single hand. Marginal annotations in hands from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv, in brown and red ink; a contemporary hand inserted additional text on some originally blank leaves (fols 104v, 106v & 108v).

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, first half; Germany. The book was produced presumably prior to the foundation of the Mainz Charterhouse.

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r, following the (partly erased) header in red (see also Contents): ‘… et pertinent ad Cartusienses prope mogunciam’ and, in the same hand, at the lower centre of fol. 138v (boxed in): ‘Fratrum Carthusiensium prope mogunciam’. Identifiable as I XII Qr in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. iii 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. 300
Quarto Catalogue, p. 560
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 51

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. 1143–1157

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-10-27: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.