MS. Laud Misc. 436

Summary Catalogue no.: 882

Cresconius, Concordia canonum, etc.; Würzburg (Domstift), s. ix^1/3.

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. 684-92. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

Fols. i recto–ii verso, blank

1. (fols. 1r–161v)

Cresconius Afer, Concordia canonum (with appendix)

Glosses

Interlinear pen glosses, presumably inserted first half of the 9th century.

Language(s): Old High German (Rhenish Franconian, or East Franconian) and Latin

2. (fols. 161v–183v)

Appendix ad Concordiam canonum Cresconii

2.1. (fol. 161v)

Expositio fidei (Concilii Chalcedonensis, act. VI, 8)

2.2. (fol. 162v)

Symbolum Nicaenum

2.3. (fol. 163r)

Symbolum Constantinopolitanum

2.4. (fol. 163v)

Ultima pars actionis sextae Concilii Chalcedonensis

(fol. 165v)

Two unidentified canons

Incipit: ut si maiora [scil.: maior a] inferiori negotium habuerit stantes uterque dent uel accipiant. – Item placuit ut si quis senior cum inferiori ante primatem causam suae sententiae adfirmae uoluerit litigans omnino non sedeat

Explicit: ęqualem debet habere stadium.

Incipit: Ex cognitione quarte synodus. titulo xuiii – Si quis episcopus cum presbytero diacono uel cum subiectis gradibus quodcumque uentilandum negotium ante cognitores adfuerint. iustum est

Explicit: siue serui siue liberi in christo unum sumus.

2.6. (fol. 165v)

Leo the Great, Ad Anastasium Thessalonicensem episcopum (ep. 14)

2.7. (fol. 171v)

Jerome, Epistula ad Lucinum Baeticum (ep. 71)

2.8. (fol. 175v)

Mansuetus, Epistola ad Constantinum

2.9. (fol. 179v)

Mansuetus, Expositio fidei (CPL 1171)

2.10. (fol. 182r)

Ps.-Augustine, Expositio de secreto gloriosae incarnationis DNIC

(fol. 182v)

Cyprian of Carthage, Ad martyres et confessores (ep. 10)

Imperfect; added in Carolingian minuscule s. ix^1/3

Fols. 184r–185v blank.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (17-cent. paper) + i (17-cent. parchment) + 183 + i (17-cent. parchment) + i (17-cent. paper) leaves

Dimensions (leaf): c. 314–18 × 223–30 mm.

Foliation: i–ii, 1–185

Layout

Ruling in hard point; one column of (mostly) 22–25 lines. Ruled space c. 215–20 × 140–52 mm.

Hand(s)

German Anglo-Saxon minuscule, moderately ‘nagelförmig’, s. ix^1/3, by several hands, from Würzburg.

Decoration

Initials. (P&A i. 13).

Red rubrics.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 9th century, first third ; Germany, Würzburg, St. Kilian

Provenance and Acquisition

Very likely written in Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix^1/3, by German Anglo-Saxon hands: script and additions.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, 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, cols. 315-16

Quarto Catalogue, col. 317

Quarto Catalogue, p. 562

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 37