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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.

1. (fols 1ra–103rb)
Conrad Holtnicker, Sermons

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.

Language(s): Latin
1.1. (fols 1ra–58vb)

Sermones de tempore (Schneyer 1. 748–764, citing the present MS. at p. 764).

1.2. (fols 59ra–89avb)

Sermones de sanctis (Schneyer 1. 765–771).

1.3. (fols 90ra–103rb)

Sermones de communi sanctorum (Schneyer 1. 771–777, citing the present MS. at p. 778).

2. (fols 103va–104rb)
St Augustine of Hippo, Extracts

For full listing, see printed catalogue.

3. (fol. 104v)
Pauline Epistles

Extract from Romans (VIII.38-9).

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -dinem. Quarti
Form: codex
Support: parchment; sometimes remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes). Bookmarks made of red-coloured leather strips, glued to both sides of the outer margins of fols 29, 59 & 90 (the latter two damaged), to distinguish (fol. 29) winter- from summertime and to mark the beginning of (fol. 59) Sanctorale and (fol. 90) Communale. (fol. 103v) One, (fol. 104r & v) two small rust marks at the centre of the outer margin, from the fore-edge catch or anchor plate of a previous binding.
i (17th-cent.) + 109 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.190–93 × 125–31 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–105, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. The blanks between fols 89a & 90 originally unfoliated and are now numbered 89b to 89a.

Collation

i–iv 10 | v 8 | vi–viii 10 | ix & x 8 | xi 10 | xii 6-1.

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

Origin: 14th century, first half; Germany

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

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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1202–1215

Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-22: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.