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MS. Laud Lat. 110

Summary Catalogue no.: 1242

Canonical Epistles and Apocalypse, glossed; Germany, s. xiv

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. 195–199. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

i. (fols 1r–2r)
Prologues to Canonical Epistles
(fol. 1r)
Epilogus in ep. can. gloss
Incipit: Sicut quatuor sunt auctores qui evangelia scripserunt sic quoque sunt quatuor qui epistolas septem conposuerunt

Stegmüller, Bibl. 10237

(fol. 1v)
Prologue to Canonical Letters[PS.-JEROME, Prol. epp. can.]

Stegmüller, Bibl. 809

(fol. 1v–2r)
Prologue to Canonical Letters
Incipit: Qvia in circumcisione ordinatus erat
Explicit: uel uisibiliter uel inuisibiliter percellat. Explicit prologus Ieronimi.

Stegmüller, Bibl. 810

(fol. 2r)
Prologue to Canonical Letters
Incipit: Ponitur prima epistola Iacobi. non quod primum scripta fuerit
Explicit: sed uniuersis gentibus generaliter scripte sunt

Cf. Stegmüller, Bibl. 803

(fol. 2r)
Prologue to Canonical Letters
Incipit: Septem sunt epistole propter .vij. dona spiritus sancti
Explicit: titulum habuit notissimum
(fol. 2r)
Prologue to Canonical Letters
Incipit: Constat quod beatus Iacobus .xxxo. post domini passionem anno martyrium suum consummauit
Explicit: tamen precedentibus minor
ii. (fols. 2v–35r)
Canonical Epistles, with gloss

With Glossa ordinaria, interlinear and marginal (Stegmüller, Bibl. 11846–53).

(fols. 2v–10r)
James
(fols. 10r–18v)
I Peter
(fols. 18v–24v)
II Peter
(fols. 24v–31v)
I John
(fols. 31v–32v)
II John
(fols. 32v–33v)
III John
(fols. 33v–35r)
Jude
iii. (fols. 35v–65v)
Apocalypse, with gloss.

With Glossa ordinaria, interlinear and marginal (Stegmüller, Bibl. 11846–53).

(fol. 35v)
Prologue to Apocalypse Gilbert de la Porrée
Incipit: Incipit prologus Gilleberti expositoris libri apocalypsis

Stegmüller, Bibl. 839

(fol. 36r)
Prologue to Apocalypse

Stegmüller, Bibl. 828

(fol. 36r)
Prologue
Incipit: Alpha principium est elementorum grecorum

Stegmüller, Bibl. 8881

(fols. 36r–36v)
Prologue to Apocalypse

Stegmüller, Bibl. 832; cf. also 840

(fols. 36v–65v)
Apocalypse

Fols. 55r-v blank.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Explicit prologus (fol. 2ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 67 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.262–67 × 186–94 mm.
Foliation: i, 1-66

Layout

Ruling in ink: (fols 1r–2r) two columns of 36 lines. Ruled space c.201/02 × 143–45 mm.

Ruling in ink: (fols i recto, 2v–66v) three columns of 13–17 lines (main text); the main column for the Bible text in the middle, two smaller text-frames for the gloss to the side. Ruled space c.179–203 × 162–75 mm.

Hand(s)

Textualis, by two hands. A second hand added interlinear gloss and is solely responsible for the marginal gloss, in textualis cursiva

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials

Rubrics.

History

Origin: s. xiv ; Germany (Judging by script and style.)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-century ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. i rect and late 14th-century ex-libris inscription (boxed) at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 50
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 53

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. 195–199

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-09: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.