MS. Laud Misc. 472
Summary Catalogue no.: 1041
Conrad Holtnicker of Saxony, Sermones. Germany, s. xiv1.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1202–1215. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Selection (pr. as Bonaventure, Paris 1521, etc.; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 224; Schneyer 1. 748–777, citing the present MS. at pp. 764 & 778; Distelbrink 208). For full listing see the printed catalogue.
Sermones de tempore (Schneyer 1. 748–764, citing the present MS. at p. 764).
Sermones de sanctis (Schneyer 1. 765–771).
Sermones de communi sanctorum (Schneyer 1. 771–777, citing the present MS. at p. 778).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in lead point; two columns of 32–40, mostly 39 lines. Ruled space c.146–54 × 91–95 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xiv1, by four hands: 1) (fols 1ra–8ra, l. 26); 2) (fols 8ra, l. 27–9vb, l. 3; 22vb, l. 32–73rb); 3) (fols 9vb, l. 4–22vb, l. 31); 4) (fols 73va–89avb, 90ra–103rb). (fols 103va–104rb) Item 2: addition in a contemporary hand. (fol. 104v) Item 3: written in bastarda s. xv, in a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red; (fol. 1ra) secondarily decorated with fleuronnée.
Rubrication.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r, following the title, and framed: ‘... et est carthusiensium moguncie’, and the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 104v: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Cartusiensium prope Magunciam’.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. i verso.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
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Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-09-22: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.