MS. Laud Misc. 484
Summary Catalogue no.: 1264
Petrus Comestor, Sermons. Germany (?), s. xiiiin.
Contents
Itemized in detail in J. B. Schneyer, 'Predigten des Petrus Comestor in der Hs. Oxford, Bodl. Laud. misc. 484', Scriptorium 21/2 (1967), 277-283, and less fully in Schneyer, Repertorium, IV.647-9: fols. 1r-106r, 24 sermons on the Holy Spirit and Pentecost; fols. 106r-144r, 8 sermons on John the Baptist; fols. 144r-191v, 11 sermons on SS Peter and Paul. Also found in Troyes, BM, MS. 1515 (from Clairvaux).
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in brown ink, 1 column of 24 lines. Ruled space 155 × 100 mm. Written above top line, but with an additional ruled line subsequently added above the first line of text.
Hand(s)
Late protogothic / early textualis by several hands. Punctuation using punctus flexus. Ascenders of the top line extended in the style of documentary script. Occasional marginalia and corrections.
Decoration
Arabesque / silhouette initials in red flourished with the ink of the text.
Coloured initials in red.
Binding
Reversed calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: almost certainly identifiable from contents as g 15 in the catalogue of 1502 ('sermones de quatuor fluminibus paradisi Initium Columbarum': N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 273, but not mentioning the present manuscript).
William Laud, 1573–1645: ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r. Acquired after the dissolution of the Eberbach library in the period of the Thirty Years' War.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-01-05: Description revised for Mainz digitization project.