MS. Laud Misc. 445

Summary Catalogue no.: 1400

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: In hoc codice continentur omelie sive oratiuncule Origenis doctoris, numero xlvi.; In Genesin videlicet xvi. et benedictio Jacob ad filios suos; in Exodo xiii., in Levitico xvi

Origen, Homilies on Genesis

Origen, Homilies on Exodus

Origen, Homilies on Leviticus

Final rubric: Expliciunt omelie sive oratiuncule Origenis doctoris in Levitico, numero xvi | Quisquis ad eterne festinas gaudia vite | Hos typicos flores devota mente require | Noxia quo valeas contempti linquere secli | Et tandem capias celestis premia regni | Hartgarii memor esto precor qui noxia cuncta | Que potuit rasit necnon condigna remisit

The verses derive from Laon, MS. 11, corrected by Hartgar of Laon in the 9th century: J. Contreni, The Cathedral School of Laon from 850 to 930 (1978), pp. 58-62.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 130 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): c. 325 × c. 235 mm.

Foliation: i, 1-129, 103 is doubled.

Layout

2 cols., 35-7 lines. Ruled space c. 245 × c. 175–80 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 486:

Decorative initials.

Binding

Contemporary (original?) binding.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; French, Tours

Provenance and Acquisition

Tours, St Martin: 'Liber S. Martini, si quia eum abstulerit anathema. sit', fol. 1r, 12th century.

Part of an unidentified collection whose distinctive shelfmarks are also found among the manuscripts of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642) (Quarto catalogue, pp. xvi-xvii).

William Laud: acquired before before 1633, with 'W. L.' inscription.

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.

MS. Laud Misc. 445, endleaves

Language(s): Latin

Capitulare epistolarum

Two bifolia

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885), and from Pächt and Alexander (1966), with limited additional physical description.

Quarto Catalogue, col. 320

Quarto Catalogue, col. 321

Quarto Catalogue, p. 562

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 60