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MS. Laud Lat. 40

Summary Catalogue no.: 979

New Testament, Germany, s. xvin

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. 187-193. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols. 1r–150v)
New Testament, with prologues
i. (fols. 1r–87v)
Gospels and Acts of Apostles
(fol. 1r–v)
Prologue to Gospels Jerome

Stegmüller, Bibl. 595

(fols. 1v–19r)
Matthew
(fols. 1v–2r)
Prologue to Matthew (Monarchian prol.)

Stegmüller, Bibl. 590 (= 591)

(fols 2r–19r)
Matthew
(fols. 19r–31r)
Mark
(fol. 19r–v)
Prologue to Mark (Monarchian prol.)

Stegmüller, Bibl. 607

(fols. 19v–31r)
Mark
(fols. 31r–51r)
Luke
(fol. 31r–v)
Prologue to Luke (Monarchian prol.)

Stegmüller, Bibl. 620 (= 3437)

(fols. 31v–51r)
Luke
(fols. 51r–66v)
John
(fol. 51r)
Prologue to John (Monarchian prol.)

Stegmüller, Bibl. 624

(fols. 51r–66v)
John
(fols. 66v–67r)
Acts
(fol. 51r)
Prologues to Acts

Three prologues, in the order of Stegmüller, Bibl. 633, 640, 631.

(fols. 67r–87v)
Acts
ii. (fols. 87v–150v)
Canonical and Pauline Letters, Revelation
(fols. 87v–88r)
Prologue to Canonical Letters

Stegmüller, Bibl. 809

(fols. 88r–90r)
James
(fols. 90r–93v)
I-II Peter
(fol. 90ra)
Prologue to I Peter

Stegmüller, Bibl. 816

(fols. 90r–92r)
I Peter
(fol. 92r)
Prologue to II Peter

Stegmüller, Bibl. 818

(fols. 92r–93v)
II Peter
(fol. 93v–96r)
I-III John
(fol. 93v)
Prologue to I John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 822

(fols. 93v–95v)
I John
(fol. 95v)
Prologue to II John Walahfrid Strabo?

Stegmüller, Bibl. 8331,4; cf. also 823

(fols. 95v–96r)
II John
(fol. 96r)
Prologue to III John

Stegmüller, Bibl. 824

(fol. 96r–r)
III John
(fol. 96r–v)
Jude
(fol. 96r)
Prologue to Jude

Stegmüller, Bibl. 825

(fol. 96r–v)
Jude
(fol. 97r
Pauline Epistles
(fol. 97r–v)
Prologue to Pauline Epistles Pelagius

Stegmüller, Bibl. 670

(fol. 97v)
Prologue to Pauline Epistles Isidore of Seville

Stegmüller, Bibl. 661

(fols. 97v–)
Romans
(fols. 97v–98v)
Prologue to Romans Pelagius

Stegmüller, Bibl. 674

(fol. 98v)
Prologue to Pauline Epistles Isidore of Seville

Stegmüller, Bibl. 655

(fol. 98v)
Prologue to Romans Isidore of Seville

Stegmüller, Bibl. 676

(fols. 98v–106v)
Romans
(fols. 106v–119v)
I-II Corinthians
(fol. 106v)
Prologue to I Corinthians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 684 & 685

(fols. 106v–114r)
I Corinthians
(fol. 114r)
Prologue to II Corinthians Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 699

(fols. 114r–119v)
II Corinthians
(fols. 119v–122r)
Galatians
(fol. 119v)
Prologue to Galatians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl., 707

(fols. 119v–122r)
Galatians
(fols. 122r–124v)
Ephesians
(fols. 122r)
Prologue to Ephesians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 715

(fols. 122r–124v)
Ephesians
(fols. 124v–126v)
Philippians
(fols. 124v–125r)
Prologue to Philippians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 728

(fols. 125r–126v)
Philippians
(fol. 126v–128v)
Colossians
(fol. 126v)
Prologue to Colossians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 736

(fol. 126v–128v)
Colossians
(fols. 128v–131r)
I-II Thessalonians
(fol. 128v)
Prologue to I Thessalonians Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 747

(fols. 128v–130r)
I Thessalonians
(fol. 130r)
Prologue to II Thessalonians

Stegmüller, Bibl. 754

(fol. 130r–131r)
II Thessalonians
(fols. 131r–134v)
I-II Timothy
(fol. 131r)
Prologue to I Timothy

Stegmüller, Bibl. 767

(fols. 131r–133r)
Timothy
(fol. 133r)
Prologue to II Timothy Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 772

(fols. 133r–134v)
II Timothy
(fols. 134v–135v)
Titus
(fol. 134v)
Prologue to Titus Peter Lombard

Stegmüller, Bibl. 780

(fols. 134v–135v)
Titus
(fols. 135v–136r)
Philemon
(fol. 135v)
Prologue to Philemon Marcion

Stegmüller, Bibl. 783

(fols. 135v–136r)
Philemon
(fol. 136r–141v)
Hebrews
(fol. 136r)
Prologue to Hebrews

Stegmüller, Bibl. 793

(fols. 136r–141v)
Hebrews
(fols. 141v–150v)
Apocalypse
(fols. 141v–142r)
Prologue to Apocalypse Ps.-Isidore of Seville

Stegmüller, Bibl. 834 = 835

(fols. 142r–150v)
Apocalypse
2. (fol. 152r–v)
Notes

By different, (near-)contemporary hands, including

(fol. 152r)
De Horis Canonicis
Incipit: Nota informacio bona et vtilis secundum Magistrum Anshelmi
Explicit: in cras collegiatur prima et completorium possunt eciam pulsari

Fol. 152v blank except for ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: noscant Nobis
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th cent.) + 152 + i (17th cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.312–18 × 209–14 mm.
Foliation: i, 1-153

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns, of 42 lines. Ruled space c.228–40 × 138–56 mm.

Hand(s)

Three German hands

1: (fols. 1r–80v) textualis formata (rotunda)

2: (fols. 81r–140v) semitextualis, under cursive influence

3: (fols. 141r-150v) textualis formata (textus quadratus)

Sporadic marginalia, in the text hands and in contemporary hands.

Decoration

Flourished initials

Alternating red and blue initials

Rubrics.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; Germany (Judging by script.)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-century ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r; a list of contents, possibly inserted at the Mainz Charterhouse, in s. xv. (fol. 152v)

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, cols. 19–20
Quarto Catalogue, p. 538 (addenda)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 41

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. 187–193

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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