Sermons. Germany, s. xiv1. | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Sermons. Germany, s. xiv1.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 408

Date

14th century, first half

Language

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. 1143–1157. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1ra–138vb) Sermones dominicales pars aestivalis

Form

codex

Support

parchment, paper; (quires i–ix) some medieval remnants of repair, (quires x–xvii) watermarks.

Physical extent

iii (17th-cent.) + 138 + iii (17th-cent.) leaves

Hands

German textualis, s. xiv1, a single hand. Marginal annotations in hands from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv, in brown and red ink; a contemporary hand inserted additional text on some originally blank leaves (fols 104v, 106v & 108v).

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

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 inscriptions at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r, following the (partly erased) header in red (see also Contents): ‘… et pertinent ad Cartusienses prope mogunciam’ and, in the same hand, at the lower centre of fol. 138v (boxed in): ‘Fratrum Carthusiensium prope mogunciam’. Identifiable as I XII Qr in cat. ii.

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

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