MS. Laud Lat. 25
Summary Catalogue no.: 1172
Biblical composite manuscript. A: Northern Italy, s. xiimed B: Southern France, s. xiiiin
Physical Description
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: manuscript is made up of two Charterhouse volumes, which possibly were bound together only in the course of the Laudian binding, in the late 1630s.
A 17th-cent. note of contents at the upper margin of fol. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1v.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
MS. Laud Lat. 25 – Part A (fols. 1–189)
Contents
The rules are written in a German hand of s. xiii, on a bifolium which was folded at the gutter and added to the original first quire of the 12th-century Italian part of the volume. Incipit cf. MS. Paris, BnF, Lat. 10448, fol. 122r.
WIC 11501, this copy, incorrect folio no.
Remnants of erased script in the lower part of fol. 3r, not legible.
Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Leo the Great, Gregory the Great, Rabanus Maurus, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, as well as from the Old Testament (Psalms and Ezekiel).
Temporale (fol. 7), common of the dedication and sanctorale (fol. 8v). The feast of the Relics is between 2 and 10 Nov.
A palimpsested binion, fols. 7–10, is a 15th-century addition from the Mainz Charterhouse, as evidenced by script and parchment. Fols. 9v–10v are blank, except for remnants of the underscript.
(excerpt, 9.34.54)
Continuation of the text on fol. 6v or, respectively, the end of the collection of excerpts, item 3. Most of the folio is blank.
In the 12th-century hand of item 1, on originally blank parchment.
The four Gospels with interlinear and marginal gloss (not Glossa ordinaria); throughout with marginal rubrics, indicating the pericopes to be read at mass.
An excerpt from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, 6.28.11 (fol. 14, at the head).
Stegmüller Bibl., 591
Stegmüller Bibl., 607
Stegmüller Bibl., 620 (= 3437)
Stegmüller Bibl., 624
Edition of the sermon by W. Berschin in Bonizo von Sutri. Leben und Werk, Beiträge zur Geschichte und Quellenkunde des Mittelalters 2 (Berlin & New York, 1972) 161–65, is based on this manuscript. (For an analysis of contents, see pp. 91–93)
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point, in three columns, the number of lines varies, the main column of c. 21–25 widely-spaced lines. The size of the columns varies, the central one usually measuring 50–60 mm. Ruled space c.137–145 × 120–126 mm mm.
Fols. 3–6, 11–13: pattern vary with the hands.
In the section of the later hands (items 1, 6 and 4): ruling in ink, mostly in two columns.
Hand(s)
Main text and glosses by a single hand writing small protogothic script, Northern Italy, s. xiimed.
Multiple German hands writing in textualis of s. xiii (items 1, 5 and 6).
Bastarda, s. xv (item 4)
Decoration
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 47, pl. V)
Illuminated initials at the beginning of each prologue and gospel (fols. 14r, 15r, 62r, 63r, 92r, 93v, 141r, 142r).
Red rubrics, paraphs and letters.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 14th-century ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1v; in the 15th century a binion (fols. 7–10 (item 4)) was bound into the centre of the original 12th-century quaternion.
MS. Laud Lat. 25 – Part B (fols. 190–319)
Contents
The fol. is mostly blank, except for the verses at the upper half of the verso, in a hand of s. xiii, evidently to be linked with Foigny Abbey (Cistercian)
At the lower margin of fol. 191r are Verses on the Symbols of the Evangelists, added by a hand s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse (Chevalier 21804; WIC 20508)
Originally a blank. Additions, in several Carthusian hands from Mainz, s. xv, includes also ex-libris inscription and probatio calami.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in lead point, (fols. 191r–194r) one or two columns, (fols. 195r ff.) usually two columns with the inner text column wider than the outer gloss (= commentary) column. Ruled space c.146–60 × 99–115 mm.
Hand(s)
Late Southern French protogothic script, s. xiiiin: a single hand for the Bible text, a different one for the marginal gloss, writing a smaller script.
A later hand of s. xivex/xvin added more interlinear gloss.
Binding
Remnants of previous binding (fol. 190r–v).
History
Provenance
Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper margin of fol. 194v: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Cartusiensium prope magunciam’ and, in the same hand, of fol. 318v: ‘Iste liber pertinet ad carthusienses maguncie’
MS. Laud Lat. 25 - end flyleaf, fol. 319
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Published descriptions:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2022-12-20: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.