MS. Laud Misc. 443
Summary Catalogue no.: 886
Der Heiligen Leben; Germany (area of Nuremberg), 15th century, beginning
Contents
A paper scrap a late mediaeval cursive hand, without watermark, annotated: ‘found loose inside the MS., March 1990 (precise location not recorded). BCBB’.
The text breaks off at the end of a quire in the text 'von sant Justina' which is no. 123 in the order of vitae. Evidently there is another quire to follow that is now missing.
Edited in Margit Brand, Kristina Freienhagen-Baumgardt, Ruth Meyer and Werner Williams-Krapp (eds.), Der Heiligen Leben. Band I: Der Sommerteil, Texte und Textgeschichte 44 (Tübingen 1996) (MS. O1).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Two columns, mostly 42 lines, at times 33–38 lines.
Hand(s)
Gothic textura: Brand et al. distinguish four hands, (a) fols. 1r-8ν (quire 1); (b) fol. 9r-96v (quires 2–12); (c) fols. 97r-106v; (d) fols. 107r-248v.
Decoration
Nine-line fleuronnée initial in red and black, with split body and fleuronnée decoration in red and black.
Red initials and rubricated majuscules throughout.
Rubrics; red foliation.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639; rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Medieval provenance unknown.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-11-05: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.