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MS. Laud Misc. 432

Summary Catalogue no.: 1423

Johannes de Vilari, Sermones; Paulus Cholner, De praedicatione; Germany, 15th century, beginning

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(upper pastedown)

Note on God's appearance to Moses, Isaiah and the bride in Song of Songs.

Incipit: Nota tres sunt sancti(?) qui deuocione inebriati implicite tamen non explicite a deo se eis innotescere postulabant viz. Moyses, Ysaia et sponsa in Canticis
(fol. iii)

Parchment slip with pen trials for initials and musical notation.

1. (fols. 1r–114v)
Johannes de Vilari, Sermones de tempore
Incipit: Induamur arma lucis. Ro. 13. Videmus sensibili experientia, quod homines
Explicit: et in futuro per gloriam, quam nobis concedat etc.
Final rubric: Expliciunt sermones dominicales tocius anni compliati Parisius in studio Sancti Bernhardi.

Schneyer III.796–800, nos. 1–41, (fol. 91v) 44–50, (fol. 108v) 42–3.

2. (fols. 114v–119v)
Sermons
(fols. 114v–116r)
Incipit: Dispersit dedit pauperibus Ps. Dicit Gregorius, Terrena omnia servando amittimus
Explicit: in patriam in eternam glorificationem ad quod nos perdu⟨cit⟩ etc.

Schneyer I.742 (Conradus de Brundelsheim 329); cf. VI.427 (Marseille 395), VIII.765 (Clm 28272).

(fols. 116r–117v)
Incipit: Iuste vocatum est nomen eius Iacob. Gn 27. Dicit Gregorius, Mens nostra mutabilitatis tue
Explicit: non desinis flammas perpetuas

Cf. Schneyer 1.742 (Conradus de Brundelsheim 322).

(fols. 118r–119v)
Rubric: De passione domini (in the upper margin)
Incipit: In tribulatione mane consurget ad me. Osee 6. Dies ista karissimi est dies tribulationis
Explicit: assiduo dolore afflicta

Cf. Graz, Universitätsbibliothek MS. 341, fols. 80–82. Followed by a note from Augustine.

3. (fols. 120r–262v)
Paulus Cholner, De praedicatione
Incipit: Ad utilitatem sancte ecclesie katholice et pauperum predicatorum
Incipit: Clama ne cesses sicut tuba exalta vocem tuam Hec verba habentur originaliter Ysae
Incipit: (prima forma, fol. 122r) Quoniam in medio laqueorum positi sumus
Explicit: ad eternam beatitudinem compescendam quod nobis prestare dignetur […]
(fol. 263ra–va)

On Biblical exemplars of the seven deadly sins

Incipit: Sicut peccata in regno patris fuerunt purgata ita purgantur in regno christi. Et primo in lucifero vt Isa. 14 Quomodo cecidisti etc. Tunc in adam qui voluit esse ut deus et factus est ut pecus.
Incipit: Secundo est videndum de auaricia qualiter in regno purgatur patris
Explicit: in Egipto descendite et emite etc.

Fol. 263va, note of the quires in the book: 'sexterni xxij in toto'.

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Theological notes
Incipit: Sapientia edificauit sibi domum etc. Bernhardus sapientia diuina ad nos veniens de sinu patris edificauit sibi domum
Incipit: Augustinus. Sicut deus in celesti gloria electis suis

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: conscientiam
Form: codex
Support: Paper. Watermarks include dreiburg with star, type Piccard XVI.i.963–81; (fol. 97) five-pointed star in circle resembling examples from 1415–1419 in WZIS; ship with triangular sail and additional sail (fol. 136)
Extent: ii + 1 + 264 + ii leaves (i-iii, 1–55, 55a, 56–263, 264–5). Fol. 55a is a half-sheet.
Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 205 mm.

Layout

Written in 2 columns, 37–45 lines. Ruled space 210–15 × 135–50 mm.

Hand(s)

Cursive by several hands.

Musical Notation:

Notation, fol. iii.

Decoration

Red initials with simple silhouette decoration.

Cadels.

Binding

Traces of original contemporary cover with clasps, bosses (some lost) and contents label. Resewn in 1928.

History

Origin: 15th century, first quarter ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

Not identifiable as Z 21 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502; German provenance unknown (see Palmer (1998) pp. 258, 321).

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description by Tuija Ainonen and Matthew Holford (May 2020, rev. Sept. 2020). 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. 314
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 61

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-09-03: Description finalized for Polonsky German project.