View online

MS. Laud Misc. 443

Summary Catalogue no.: 886

Der Heiligen Leben; Germany (area of Nuremberg), 15th century, beginning

(fol. iii recto)

Incipit: Alz vnser her gefange(n) ward leid dürch in gern alle gefancknüs wie die sey.

A paper scrap a late mediaeval cursive hand, without watermark, annotated: ‘found loose inside the MS., March 1990 (precise location not recorded). BCBB’.

Language(s): Middle High German

(fols. 1r–248v)

Der Heiligen Leben (Sommerteil nos. 1–123, incomplete)

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).

Language(s): Middle High German (dialect probably of Nuremberg area, see Brand et. al pp. xli-xliii.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: nach kom

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (paper) + i (parchment) + 248 + i (parchment) + i (paper) leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 220 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 230–235 × 145–150 mm.

Foliation: i-iii, 1–250. Contemporary foliation in roman numerals.

Collation

1–31⁸. Catchwords.

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

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; German, probably area of Nuremberg

Provenance and Acquisition

Medieval provenance unknown.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (November 2020) from the following sources:

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]

Unpublished description by Stephen Mossman, c. 2003.

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) pp. XXXIX-XLII (MS. O1).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 319

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