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MS. Laud Misc. 411

Summary Catalogue no.: 1070

Philippus de Monte Calerio, Dominicale. Germany, s. xiv2.

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. 1179–1193. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

Phillipus de Monte Calerio, Dominicale

Abbreviated version of text (ed.: Little 89, this copy only; Hauréau, Initia, 2. 202vb/203ra, this copy only; Mohan 135*, this copy only, & 390*f.; G. de Martel, Répertoire des texts Latins relatifs au livre de Ruth (VIIe–XVe s.), Instrumenta Patristica 18 (Steenbrugge, 1990) 107f. (C 53), citing the present MS. at p. 108). Text is imperfect, as there are one or more quires missing at the end. Collection fully itemized in the printed catalogue.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Tunc plangent
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
i (17th-cent.) + 138 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.238–44 × 175–80 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–128 in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. no. 70 occurs four times (70, 70a–70c), nos 84 & 102 duplicated (84a & 84b; 102a & 102b), no. 117 occurs seven times (117a–117g).

Collation

i 12 | ii–vii 10 | viii & ix 8 | x 10 | xi 8 | xii 14 | xiii 8 | xiv 10.

Layout

Ruling in ink and lead point, one column of c.40–50 both ruled and unruled lines. Ruled space c.182–191 × 125–28 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2: seven hands, some of which write a cursive script; mostly below top line: 1) (fols 1r–41v, l. 36, 48v–53r, l. 3, & 71r–84av); 2) (fols 41v, l. 36–48r); 3) (fols 53r, l. 3–70v & 114r, l. 20–117av); 4) (fols 85r & 89r); 5) (fols 85v–86v & 89v–102av); 6) (fols 87r–88v & 103–114r, l. 19); 7) (fols 118r–127v). Several marginalia by contemporary hands of Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Initials (fols 1r–21v) either parted, in red and blue, with fleuronnée decoration in red, blue and/or purple; or in red, with fleuronnée in pale brown and/or purple.

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, second half; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper margin of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope magunciam’ and, in the same hand, of 127v: ‘Iste liber est carthusiensium prope magunciam.’ Possibly identical with K I T in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. 1r.

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. 302
Quarto Catalogue, col. 303
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 46

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. 1179–1193

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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