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MS. Laud Misc. 427

Summary Catalogue no.: 1316

Incipit: Quantum et quam multiplicem

Incipit: (fol. 3r) Fratres Paulus seruus Christi […] Gaude\a/mus fratres et laetemur

The homiliary from the vigil of the Nativity, as printed Cologne, 1535 (USTC 664009); combined temporale and sanctorale, followed (fol. 135r) by the dedication of the church and (fol. 136r) common of saints, ending incomplete in the sermon 'in natali virginis' (ed. cit. p. 297) due to loss of leaves; Michael Kautz identified two sermons not in the 1535 edition, fols. 45v-46v (Ps.-Augustine, CPPM I 3321, 3912a), and fols. 50v-51v (CPPM 3916a).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii (paper) + 143 + ii (paper) leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 306 × 225 mm.

Layout

1 col., 29 lines; written space 231 × 160 mm.

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule by several hands (Bischoff).

Decoration

Plain initials.

Rubrics.

Binding

Standard binding of the Laudian collection.

History

Origin: 10th century, first half ; Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (?) (Bischoff)

Provenance and Acquisition

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: 10th century ex libris, fol. 1r (Bischoff)

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: identifiable as H 11 in the catalogue of 1502 (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), pp. 240, 295). Probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (ibid., p. 18)

William Laud, acquired 1637 (fol. ii verso)

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2022) from N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 295, with additional reference to published literature as cited. 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, cols. 311–12

Quarto Catalogue, p. 562

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 56

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile)

Bibliography

Michael Kautz, Bibliothek und Skriptorium des ehemaligen Klosters Lorsch: Katalog der erhaltenen Handschriften (Wiesbaden, 2016)

Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (2004) II, p. 380 (after no. 3859)

Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed. (1989), 85, 112-3

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-07: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges