MS. Laud Lat. 26

Summary Catalogue no.: 971

Followed (fol. 97) by:

Capitulare evangeliorum de circulo anni; incomplete, ending abruptly after 1 Nov. Based on the Roman list of about 755; there is evident influence of the contemporary list of Gaul.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

i + 2 + 100 + 1 + iv fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 149 mm.

Layout

Gospel list in 42 lines, 170 × 120 mm.

Decoration

Good Canon Tables.

Good miniatures.

Good initials. Related in style and iconography to the Breton Gospels, Alençon, Bib. Mun. MS. 84 and Rome, Vatican, MS. San Pietro D. 154 (Pächt and Alexander i. 428, pl. XXXV)

Full-page pictures of the crucifixion (fol. 9v) and the evangelists (fols. 10v, 37v, 54v, 82v); a full-page initial (fol. 11) and smaller ones (fols. 38, 82v, 55).

History

Origin: 10th century, first half ; French, Brittany

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph [Pächt and Alexander read 'John'] Maynard, Exeter College Oxford

Record Sources

S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957); updated (origin, date, provenance) from Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography). 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, cols. 15–16

Quarto Catalogue, p. 538 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 40