Usuard, Martyrology; Germany, 14th century, middle

Title

Usuard, Martyrology; Germany, 14th century, middle

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 393

Date

14th century, middle

14th century

Language

German

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (paper) + i (parchment) + 92 + i (parchment) + i (paper) leaves

Hands

Textualis, one hand, the addition on fols. 81v-91v also in textualis.

Additions on fol. 1r in cursiva antiquior.

Decoration

Plain red initials, rubrics in red.

Binding

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

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

The additions indicate that the manuscript belonged to a community following the observance of the Teutonic Order (Deutscher Orden). Van Dijk and Hunt suggested that it belonged specifically to the Deutschordenskommende Sachsenhausen in Frankurt am Main. They seem to have done so only on the basis of the opening formula of a German letter on fol. 92v which reads in full: Dem wurdigenn herrn Waltherum [or Walthernn] von Cronberg Compthur zu Frankfurt teutsches ordens: Walther von Kronberg, ?1479–1543, who held this office in 1509 (B. Dudik, Des hohen Deutschen Ritterordens Münz-Sammlung in Wien (Vienna, 1858), 152).

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Title

Martyrologium

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 393

Date

From Sachsenhausen, 14th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

92 Leaves

Custodial history

MS. Frere 347. Manuscript 2520 acquired by the Bodleian Library