Conrad Holtnicker of Saxony, Sermones. Germany, s. xiv1.

Title

Conrad Holtnicker of Saxony, Sermones. Germany, s. xiv1.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 472

Date

14th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; sometimes remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes). Bookmarks made of red-coloured leather strips, glued to both sides of the outer margins of fols 29, 59 & 90 (the latter two damaged), to distinguish (fol. 29) winter- from summertime and to mark the beginning of (fol. 59) Sanctorale and (fol. 90) Communale. (fol. 103v) One, (fol. 104r & v) two small rust marks at the centre of the outer margin, from the fore-edge catch or anchor plate of a previous binding.

Physical extent

i (17th-cent.) + 109 + i (17th-cent.) leaves

Hands

German textualis, s. xiv1, by four hands: 1) (fols 1ra–8ra, l. 26); 2) (fols 8ra, l. 27–9vb, l. 3; 22vb, l. 32–73rb); 3) (fols 9vb, l. 4–22vb, l. 31); 4) (fols 73va–89avb, 90ra–103rb). (fols 103va–104rb) Item 2: addition in a contemporary hand. (fol. 104v) Item 3: written in bastarda s. xv, in a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red; (fol. 1ra) secondarily decorated with fleuronnée.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r, following the title, and framed: ‘... et est carthusiensium moguncie’, and the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 104v: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Cartusiensium prope Magunciam’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. i verso.

Title

Conrad Holtnicker, Sermons

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 472

Date

16th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

104 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2583 acquired by the Bodleian Library