MS. Laud Misc. 425
Summary Catalogue no.: 1128
Martyrology (Usuard); Würzburg, s. xiv1.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 666–72. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Fols. i recto–ii verso blank
From Circumcision to St Sylvester, with prefatory material; based on Usuard
Würzburg, adapted to the use of the Franciscans; additions by (Franciscan) hands s. xvmed
Fol. 7r–v blank, except for ruling and the alphabet in minuscule letters on f. 7v.
J. P. van Dijk, Sources of the modern roman liturgy: the ordinals by Haymo of Faversham and related documents (1243–1307), vol. 1, Studia et documenta Franciscana 1 (Leiden, 1963) 182.
Sundays, ferial and week days.
Fols. 142v-143v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in lead point, fols. 1r–6v several columns, fols 7v ff. one column of (calendar) c. 29–32 and (main text) c. 23 lines. Ruled space c. 216–28 × 130–39 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xiv1, by a single hand.
Decoration
Scribal initials on fols. 1r–6v, 8r.
Simple initials in colours.
Red rubrics.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written in Würzburg, s. xiv1.
Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek: a 17th-cent. inscription, f. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 8r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-07-25: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.