A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Lat. 23

Summary Catalogue no.: 677

Bible, New Testament

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. 114–121. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols. 1r–2v)
Table of Epistle and Gospel lections

Added in 15th-century cursive hand to leaves that were originally not part of the volume.

Fol. 3r-v blank.

2. (fols. 4r–221v)
New Testament
2.1. (fols. 4r–126r)
Gospels and Acts of the Apostles
(fols. 4r–29r)
Matthew
(fols. 29v–47r)
Mark
(fol. 29v)
List of chapters
(fol. 30v)
Prologue (Monarchian prol.)

Stegmüller, Bibl. 607

(fols. 31r–47v)
Mark
(fols. 47r–76r)
Luke
(fol. 47r)
Prologue to Luke

Stegmüller, Bibl. 614

(fol. 47r–v)
Prologue (Monarchian prol.)

Stegmüller, Bibl. 620 (= 3437)

(fols. 47v–48v)
List of chapters
(fols. 48v–76r)
Luke
(fols. 76r–98r)
John
(fol. 76r–v)
Prologue (Monarchian prol.)

Stegmüller, Bibl. 624

(fols. 76v–77r)
List of chapters
(fols. 77r–98r)
John
(fols. 98r–126r)
Acts of the Apostles
(fol. 98r–v)
Prologue to Acts

Stegmüller, Bibl. 640

(fols. 98v–99v)
List of chapters
(fol. 99v)
Prol. Act

Stegmüller, Bibl. 631

(fols. 99v–126r)
Acts
2.2. (fols. 126r–221v)
Canonical and Pauline Epistles, and Revelation
(fol. 126r–140r)
Canonical Epistles
(fol. 126r–v)
Prologue to Canonical Epistles Ps.-Jerome

Stegmüller, Bibl. 809

(fols. 126v–130r)
James
(fol. 126v)
Prologue to James Jerome

Stegmüller, Bibl. 807

(fols. 126v–127r)
Prologue to James,

cf. Stegmüller, Bibl. 808

(fol. 127r–v)
List of chapters
(fol. 127v)
Prologue to James

Stegmüller, Bibl. 806

(fols. 127v–130r)
James
(fols. 130r–135r)
I and II Peter
(fol. 130r)
[Prol. I Pt]

Stegmüller, Bibl. 812

(fols. 130r–133r)
I Peter
(fol. 133r)
Prologue to II Peter

Stegmüller, Bibl. 818

fols. 133r–134v)
II Peter
(fols. 134v–135r)
List of chapters (I Peter)
(fol. 135r)
List of chapters II Peter
(fols. 135r–139r)
I-III John
(fols. 135r–v)
List of chapters I-III John
(fol. 135v)
Prologue to I John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 822

(fols. 135v–138v)
I John
(fol. 138v)
Prologue to II John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 823

(fol. 138v)
II John
(fol. 138v)
Prologue to III John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 824

(fols 138v–139r)
III John
(fols. 139r–140r)
Jude
(fol. 139r)
Prologue to Jude

Stegmüller, Bibl. 825

(fols. 139r–140r)
Jude
(fols. 140r–141r)
Prologue to Pauline Letters

Stegmüller, Bibl. 670

(fols. 141r–155r)
Romans
(fols. 141r–142r)
Prologue to Romans Pelagius

Stegmüller, Bibl. 674

Fols. 142r–143r blank.

(fols. 143v–144v)
List of chapters (numbered)
(fol. 144v–v)
Prologue to Romans Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 677

(fols. 144v–155r)
Romans
(fols. 155r–174r)
I-II Corinthians
(fol. 155r)
Prologue to I Corinthians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 684, 685

(fols. 155r–156v)
List of chapters to I Corinthians
(fols. 156v–166v)
I Corinthians
(fol. 166v)
Prologue to II Corinthians Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 699

(fols. 166v–167v)
List of chapters to II Corinthians
(fols. 167v–174r)
II Corinthians
(fols. 174r–178r)
Galatians
(fol. 174r–r)
Prologue to Galatians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 707

(fols. 174r–175r)
List of chapters
(fols. 175r–178r)
Galatians
(fols. 178r–182r)
Ephesians
(fol. 178r–v)
Prologue to Ephesians

Stegmüller, Bibl. 716

(fols. 178v–179r)
List of chapters
(fols. 179r–182r)
Ephesians
(fols. 182r–185r)
Philippians
(fol. 182r)
Prologue to Philippians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 728

(fol. 182r–v)
List of chapters
(fols. 182v–185r)
Philippians
(fols. 185r–188r)
Colossians
(fol. 185r)
Prologue to Colossians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 736

(fol. 185r–v)
List of chapters
(fols. 185v–188r)
Colossians
(fol. 188r–v)
Laodiceans
(fols. 188v–192r)
I-II Thessalonians
(fol. 188v)
Prologue to I Thessalonians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 747

(fols. 188v–189r)
List of chapters (numbered) (I Th).
(fols. 189r–191r)
I Thessalonians.
(fol. 191r)
Prologue to II Thessalonians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 752

(fol. 191r)
List of chapters to II Thessalonians
(fols. 191r–192r)
II Thessalonians.
(fols. 192r–198r)
I-II Timothy
(fol. 192r–v)
Prologue to I Timothy Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 765

(fol. 192v–v)
List of chapters to I Timothy
(fols. 192v–195v)
I Timothy
(fol. 195v)
Prologue to II Timothy Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 772

(fols. 195v–196r)
List of chapters to II Timothy
(fols. 196r–198r)
II Timothy
(fol. 198r–199v)
Titus
(fol. 198r)
Prologue to Titus Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 780

(fol. 198r–v)
List of chapters
(fols. 198v–199v)
Titus
(fols. 199v–200r)
Philemon
(fol. 199v)
Prologue to Philemon Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 783

(fol. 199v)
List of chapters
(fols. 199v–200r)
Philemon
(fols. 200r–208v)
Hebrews
(fol. 200r–v)
Prologue to Hebrews

Stegmüller, Bibl. 794

(fols. 200v–201r)
List of chapters
(fols. 201r–208v)
Hebrews
(fols. 209r–221v)
Apocalypse
(fol. 209r–r)
Prologue to Apocalypse Ps.-Isidore of Seville

Stegmüller, Bibl. 834, 835

(fol. 209r)
Prologue to Apocalypse Jerome

Stegmüller, Bibl. 829

(fol. 209r–v)
List of chapters
(fols. 209v–221v)
Apocalypse

Fols. 221vb–222r blank.

3. (fol. 222v)
Isaiah Jeremiah

(excerpts)

Language(s): Latin
4. (fols. 223r–225v)
Calendar,

of the diocese of Narbonne

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: et matrem (fol. 5ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 225 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.156–62 × 110–15 mm.
Foliation: i-iii, 1-228

Layout

Ruling in crayon (fols. 1r-2v in ink), two columns of 31 or 32 lines. Written above top line. Ruled space c.101–05 × 73–75 mm.

Hand(s)

Item 2 written in Southern French protogothic script by a single hand.

Items 3 and 4 written in a late protogothic script verging on textualis, first half of the thirteenth century.

Item 1 written in 15th-century cursive script

Decoration

Penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 495)

Running heads in red; rubrics and framing/highlighting; chapters numbered in red roman numerals; paraphs; occasional brackets in blue.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: 12th century, end; additions, 13th century, first half; additions, 15th century ; French, South

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-century ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 4r.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 4r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in 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

    Printed descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 114–121
    Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 495
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 137

Last Substantive Revision

2022-12-12: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.