Bertold of Regensburg, Rusticanus de sanctis; De communi sanctorum (Sermons). Germany, s. xivin.

Title

Bertold of Regensburg, Rusticanus de sanctis; De communi sanctorum (Sermons). Germany, s. xivin.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 317

Date

Early 14th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; bookmark made of blue thread sewn into the outer centre marks the beginning of the Communale or Sanctorale respectively. Six small contemporary parchment pieces inserted between leaves (fols 2/23 (the small stub between 14/15); 50/51 and 58/59; 76/77 and 80/81; 158/159 and 168/169; 173/174 and 177/178; 424/425 and 432/433) containing sermons.

Physical extent

ii (17th cent.) + 444 leaves

Hands

German textualis, s. xivin, by six hands: 1) (fols 1ra–36vb, l. 12; 94va, l. 20–98ra, l. 13; 145ra–193va, l. 7; 230ra–255rb and 313va–444rb); 2) (fols 36vb, l. 14–94va, l. 19 and 255va– 277va); 3) (fols 98ra, l. 13–132vb); 4) (fols 133ra–144vb); 5) (fol. 193va, l. 7–vb); 6) (fols 194ra– 228va and 278ra–313rb). Marginalia in contemporary and later hands; some hands s. xv are from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Reversed tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639. Seven slits from a previous binding visible.

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 centre of fol. 444v: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’ (partly boxed in).

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

Title

Berthold of Regensburg, Sermons

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 317

Date

14th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

444 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2656 acquired by the Bodleian Library