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

OR BROWSE BY

MANUSCRIPTS
WORKS
PEOPLE
PLACES

MS. Laud Lat. 24

Summary Catalogue no.: 1191

Bible, New Testament. Italy, s. xiiex/xiiiin

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. 123–128. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols. 1r–200r)
New Testament
1.i. (fols. 1r–133r)
Gospels, Revelations, and Acts
(fols. 1r–27v)
Matthew
(fols. 27v–43v)
Mark
(fols. 43v–71r)
Luke
(fols. 71r–92v)
John
(fols. 92v–105v)
Apocalypse
(fols. 105v–133r)
Acts (fol. 105va–vb) Prologue (Stegmüller Bibl. 631).
1.ii. (fols. 133r–146r)
Canonical Epistles
(fol. 133r–v)
Prologue to Canonical Epistles Ps.-Jerome

Stegmüller, Bibl. 809

(fol. 133v)
Prologue to James

Stegmüller, Bibl. 806

(fols. 133v–136r)
James
(fols. 136r–141v)
I-II Peter
(fol. 136r)
Prologue to I Peter

Stegmüller, Bibl. 812

(fols. 136v–139v)
I Peter
(fol. 139v)
Prologue to II Peter

Stegmüller, Bibl. 818

(fols. 139v–141v
II Peter
(fols. 141v–145r)
I-III John
(fol. 141v)
Prologue to I John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 822

(fols. 141v–144r)
I John
(fols. 144r–v)
Prologue to II John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 823

(fol. 144v)
II John
(fol. 144v)
Prologue to III John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 824

(fols. 144v–145r)
III John
(fols. 145r–146r)
Jude
(fol. 145r)
Prologue to Jude

Stegmüller, Bibl. 825

(fols. 145r–146r)
Jude
1.iii. (fols. 146r–200r)
Pauline Epistles
(fols. 146r–156v)
Romans
(fols. 156v–172r)
I-II Corinthians
(fol. 156v)
Prologue to I Corinthians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl., 684 & 685 (both nos refer to the same text)

(fols. 156v–166r)
I Corinthians
(fols. 166r–172r)
II Corinthians
(fols. 172r–175r)
Galatians
(fols. 172r)
Prologue to Galatians

Stegmüller, Bibl., 708

(fols. 172r–175r)
Galatians
(fols. 175r–178v)
Ephesians
(fols. 175r)
Prologue to Ephesians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 715

(fols. 175r–178v)
Ephesians
(fol. 178v–181r)
Philippians
(fol. 178v)
Prologue to Philippians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 728

(fols. 178v–181r)
Philippians
(fols. 181r–184r)
I-II Thessalonians
(fol. 181r)
Prologue to I Thessalonians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 747

(fols. 181r–183r)
I Thessalonians
(fol. 183r)
Prologue to II Thessalonians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 752

(fols. 183r–184r)
II Thessalonians
(fols. 184r–186v)
Colossians
(fols. 184r)
Prologue to Colossians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 736

(fols. 184r–186v)
Colossians
(fols. 186v–191r)
I-II Timothy
(fol. 186v)
Prologue to I Timothy Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 765

(fols. 186v–189r)
I Timothy
(fols. 189r)
Prologue to II Timothy Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 772

(fols. 189r–191r)
II Timothy
(fols. 191r–192r)
Titus
(fol. 191r)
Prologue to Titus Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 780

(fols. 191r–192r)
Titus
(fol. 192r–v)
Philemon
(fol. 192r)
Prologue to Philemon Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 783

(fol. 192r–v)
Philemon
(fols. 192v–200r)
Hebrews
(fols. 192v)
Prologue to Hebrews

Stegmüller, Bibl. 794

(fols. 193r–200r)
Hebrews
2. (fol. 200r–v)
Excerpts and Notes
2.i. (fols. 200r)
Excerpt from [De duodecim abusionum gradibus], 5 [Ps.-Cyprian/Ps.-]Augustine

In a hand of s. xvin from the Mainz Charterhouse; framed.

2.ii. (fols. 200r)
Incipit: Epinichia. pluraliter sunt
Explicit: et nichos victoria.
2.iii. (fols. 200r–v)
Treatise on the end of the world, based on Revelation 12:5 ff.
Incipit: filium masculum peperit id est puerum uirilem minime sequens lasciuos mores quemadmodum christi nati ex beatissima uirgine recturus erat dominus
Explicit: cecidit in peccatum uenenis et caliditate
2.iv. (fols. 200v)
Incipit: Est enim misericordia salutis presidium fidei
Explicit: rite debetur. Augustinus in eodem.

The original text on fol. 200v erased, traces of writing visible. Fols. 201r–203v blank.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: puerum ad perdendum
Form: codex
Support: parchment
iii (17th cent.) + 200 + iii (17th cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.206–08 × 132–38 mm.
Foliation: i-iii, 1-203

Layout

Ruling in pencil, two columns of mostly 33 lines. Ruled space c.146–55 × 87–92 mm.

Hand(s)

Presumably one hand writing early Italian textualis

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 63)

Figural, zoo-anthropomorphic, ornamental and geometric decorative initials.

Initials with decoration in another colour.

Binding

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

Traces of former binding furniture: rust marks and holes in the corners, from four bosses (fols. 1r–4v, 198v–200v).

History

Origin: 12th century, late or 13th century, early ; Italian Based on script and decoration.

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: late 14th-century ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of ff. 1r and 200r.

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 H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885.
Quarto Catalogue, col. 14
Quarto Catalogue, col. 15
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 51

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. 123–128

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2022-12-19: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.