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MS. Laud Misc. 410

Summary Catalogue no.: 1071

Visions; Miracles; Bertrandus de Turre, Sermones de mortuis. A) (fols 1–76) Trier, St Maximin, s. x4/4; B) (fols 77–93) South-West Germany, s. xiiex; C) (fols 94–113) Mainz Charterhouse (?), s. xiv2.

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. 1159–1174. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–76) || B) (fols 77–93) || C) (fols 94–113)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 113 + ii (i, 17th-cent.; ii, modern) leaves
Foliation: 1–115, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A) i 8 | ii 10 | iii–vi 8 | vii 10 | viii 8 | ix 12-4; B) x 8+1 | xi 8; C)xii 12 | xiii 8.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: The present book consists of three different 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. 1v. A 17th-cent. list of contents at the upper half of fol. 1r.

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

MS. Laud Misc. 410 – Part A) (fols 1–76)

Contents

1. (fols 1v–18r)
Vita S. Eustachii

With prologue (the present MS. edited by H. Varnhagen, ‘Zwei lateinische metrische Versionen der Legende von Placidus-Eustachius’, ZfdA 25 (1881) 1–25, at pp. 4–25; – BHL 2767; Walther, IC, 16700, citing this copy (s. xi); Hauréau, Initia, 5. 35*vb, this copy only; ICL 14237; M. Lapidge, ‘Æthelwold and the Vita s. Eustachii’, in Scire litteras. Forschungen zum mittelalterlichen Geistesleben, eds S. Krämer & M. Bernhard, ABAW, NF, H. 99 (Munich, 1988) 255–65, at pp. 257–59 & 265; repr. in his Anglo-Latin literature: 900–1066 (London & Rio Grande, 1993) 213–23, for this copy see pp. 215ff. & 222f.).

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 18r–40r)
Walahfrid Strabo, Visio Wettini

With praefatio ad Grimaldum capellanum, interlinear Latin and (six) Old High German glosses (ed.: PL 114. 1063A–82C; H. Knittel, Reichenauer Texte und Bilder 12 (Heidelberg, 2004), this copy (siglum ‘O’) at pp. 132 & 134f.; and F. Stella, La visione di Vetti. Il primo viaggio poetico nell’aldilà (Pisa, 2009)).

Language(s): Latin with Old High German
3. (fols 40v–68r)
Nauigatio S. Brendani

With prologue (ed. C. Selmer, Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis from early Latin manuscripts, Publications in Mediaeval Studies 16 (Notre Dame, 1959) 3–82, this copy MS. ‘O’, group  (Lotharingian-Rhenish background), see especially pp. xxxix–xl, xlviii–xlix & p. 111, no. 33 (a); G. Orlandi & R. E. Guglielmetti, Per verba 30 (Florence, 2014) 00; – Hardy, Materials, 1. 458, this copy (incorrect date); BHL & BHL nov. suppl. 1437; Kenney, Sources, 414f. (no. 203, incorrect date); C. Selmer, ‘A study of the Latin manuscripts of the Navigatio sancti Brendani’, Scriptorium 3 (1949) 177–82; G. S. Burgess & C. Strijbosch, The legend of St Brendan: a critical bibliography (Dublin, 2000), citing the present MS. at p. 17 (incorrect, date, etc.)).

Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 68v–73r)
Visio Drithelmi

After Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, 5. 12 (ed.: PL 95. 247B–52B; ed. B. Colgrave & R. A. B. Mynors, OMT (1969, repr. with corrections 1991) 488–98; A. Crépin et al., SChr 491 (2005) 68–84; CPL 1375; ‘Visio Drycthelmi’, 2VL 10 (1999) 400–02, esp. at cols 400f. [N. F. Palmer]).

Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 73v–76v)
Visio Salvii episcopi

After Gregory of Tours, Historiae Francorum, (part of) lib. 7 (ed.: PL 71. 415A–18C; ed. B. Krusch & W. Levison, MGH SS. rer. Merov. 1/1 (21951) 323, l. 17–327, l. 6; BHL 7468 & 7469; Hauréau, Initia, 4, fol. 31vb; CPL 1023).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Insignis factis (fol. 2r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.245–50 × 164–67 mm.

Collation

i 8 | ii 10 | iii–vi 8 | vii 10 | viii 8 | ix 12-4.

Layout

Ruling in hard point, one column of 24 lines. Ruled space c.188–92 × 133–36 mm.

Hand(s)

late Carolingian minuscule, verging on protogothic script, Trier, St Maximin, s. x4/4, by presumably three different hands, above top line: A1) (fols 1v–26v & 40v–76v (?)); A2) (fols 27r–29r); A3) (fols 29v–40r).

Decoration

(fols 1v & 18v) Decorated initials in red with interlace designs on blue ground. (Pächt and Alexander i. 26, pl. III)

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 10th century, fourth quarter ; Germany, Trier, Benedictine abbey of St Maximin

MS. Laud Misc. 410 – Part B) (fols 77–93)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 77r–v)

See below

7. (fols 78r–93v)
Miracula
7.1. (fols 78r–86v, 89r–v & 93r–v)
Miracles of the Virgin

Cap. 1–18 & 39, with prologue (pr.: B. Pez, Venerabilis Agnetis Blannbekin ... Vita et revelationes ... (Vienna, 1731) 305–40 & 414–18; ed. T. F. Crane, Liber de miraculis sanctae dei genitricis Mariae (Ithaca, NY, etc., 1925; repr. of B. Pez, Vienna 1731, with introduction and notes) 3–21; 62–64; BHL 5357). Text wrongly attributed by Pez to Boto of Prüfening.

(fol. 85v, lower margin) Antifeminist verses.
7.2. (fols 86v–89r; 90r–93r; 93v)
Miracula

Various miracles, including Vita Theophili and extracts from Gregory of Tours, Libri miraculorum. See printed catalogue for full listing.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Quem dum transire (fol. 79r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; occasional natural flaws, (fols 81 & 87) stitched up with plain thread.
Dimensions (leaf): c.240–44 × 151–65 mm.

Collation

x 8+1 | xi 8.

Layout

Ruling (fols 78r–93v) in lead or hard point; one column of c.29–42 lines. Ruled space c.187–92 × 114–24 mm.

Hand(s)

(fols 78r–93v, item 7) German protogothic script, s. xiiex, one main hand, occasionally interrupted, mostly above top line.A hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse occasionally added marginalia.

Decoration

(fols 78r & 90r) Decorated initials in red, parted, decorated with acanthus leaves.

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; Germany, South-west

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 93v: ‘Iste liber est carthusiensium prope mogunciam.’

MS. Laud Misc. 410 – Part C) (fols 94–113)

Contents

8. (fols 95r–113v)
Bertrandus de Turre, Sermones de mortuis

Imperfect (Smalley, English friars, 242–44, citing the present MS. at p. 242, n. 3; Schneyer 1. 577f.; Hauréau, Initia, 3. 123ra, this copy only; Mohan 188*). There is text loss between fols 105/106 (part of Schneyer nos 1057 & 1063, and the whole of nos 1058–1062 missing); see also the catchword ‘luce clarius’ in the lower margin of fol. 105v, which does not match the first words of the following page. It appears likely that a whole quire is lost.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: per domicianum (fol. 96r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; palimpsested: (fols 94–103) remnants of underscript visible, presumably in Latin, s. xii or xiii, text not identifiable.
Dimensions (leaf): c.239–45 × 161–67 mm.

Collation

xii 12 | xiii 8.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, one column of 39 or 40 lines. Ruled space c.185–87 × 108–11 mm.

Hand(s)

German bastarda, s. xiv2, by a single, possibly Carthusian, hand.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; Germany, possibly written at the Mainz Charterhouse. The fascicle was originally larger, several quires at the end and one between fols 105/106 missing, with loss of text. The ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse on fol. 95r (see below) indicates that these quires were already missing when the inscription was inserted, in the 15th century.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper margin of fol. 94v: ‘Iste liber pertinet ad fratres Carthusiensium prope mogunciam.’ and fol. 95r: ‘Isti duo sexterni [sic]. pertinent ad fratres Carthusiensium iuxta mogunciam.’

MS. Laud Misc. 410, fol. 77

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Missal

Fragment of a Missal. Quire x is protected by a larger waste leaf, inserted as front flyleaf:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.247–50 × 162–65 mm.

Layout

One column of 26 lines. Ruled space c. 183 × 146 mm.

Hand(s)

Protogothic script, with a distinctive rt-ligature

Decoration

Scribal red rubrics (mostly capitals); simple one- to two-line initials in red.

History

Origin: s. xi/xii. ; Germany

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). Decoration, localization and date [part 1] follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 301–2
Quarto Catalogue, p. 561
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 46

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-16: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.