Gennadius of Marseille, Ps.-Venantius Fortunatus, Ursinus, Bonaventure, Hilduin, Ekkehard of Aura, Walahfrid Strabo, Venantius Fortunatus, Jonas of Bobbio — 15th century, beginning; German, Würzburg (St. Kylian (?))

Title

Gennadius of Marseille, Ps.-Venantius Fortunatus, Ursinus, Bonaventure, Hilduin, Ekkehard of Aura, Walahfrid Strabo, Venantius Fortunatus, Jonas of Bobbio — 15th century, beginning; German, Würzburg (St. Kylian (?))

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 163

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (modern endleaf) + i (17th century endleaf) + 299 + i (modern endleaf) leaves, foliated i-ii, 1–300

Hands

Textura by at least two hands (the second from fol. 275r). The life of St Rupert added in contemporary textus quadratus by a third hand.

Decoration

Blue and red initials, with fleuronnée decoration usually in the contrasting colour.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Tituli in red.

Binding

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

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Written in Germany, probably Würzburg, perhaps St Kilian, as suggested by the inclusion of the Life of Burchard.

Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian (?): fifteenth-century foliation resembles that of other manuscripts from St Kilian in the Laud collection (MS. Laud Misc. 153, MS. Laud Misc. 155b, MS. Laud Misc. 157).

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1636, fol. 1r.

Title

Legendary (September / October)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 163

Summary

Fol. 1ra. St Michael

Fol. 3va. St Jerome

Fol. 9va. St Remigius of Reims

Fol. 12rb. St Leodegar of Autun

Fol.25ra. Miracula S. Leodegarii

Fol. 26rb. SS Sulpicius and Servilianus

Fol. 28ra. SS Hewald the Black and Hewald the White

Fol. 29ra. St Francis of Assisi

Fol. 116rb. St Faith

Fol. 120va. St Faith, translation

Fol. 123ra. SS Sergius and Bacchus

Fol. 132vb. St Reparata

Fol. 134va. St Denys of Paris

Fol. 173va. St Gereon

Fol. 179rb. St Callistus

Fol. 183va. St Burchard of Würzburg

Fol. 214rb. St Gall

Fol. 223ra. St Luke

Fol. 229vb. St Januarius

Fol. 229vb. St Ursula

Fol. 245vb. St Severin of Cologne

Fol. 247vb. St Columbanus

Fol. 278vb. SS Crispin and Crispinian

Fol. 282vb. SS Simon and Jude

Fol. 282ra. St Quentin

Fol. 296va. St Rupert

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

269 Leaves

Custodial history

From St Kylian, Würzburg. Manuscript 2804 acquired by the Bodleian Library