Sermons (mostly Geoffrey Babio, Ivo of Chartres, 'Jacobus Berengarius'); etc. Germany, s. xii.

Title

Sermons (mostly Geoffrey Babio, Ivo of Chartres, 'Jacobus Berengarius'); etc. Germany, s. xii.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 474

Date

12th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; remnants of medieval repairs.

Physical extent

i (parchment) + 84 + i (parchment) leaves. Fol. i is a medieval parchment endleaf (fol. i verso with 'De adventu domini', s. xv). Fol. 85 is a parchment endleaf of the date of the binding. (Variable: many irregular edges)

Hands

Protogothic, s. xii, by several hands, above top line.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Unfilled space for rubrics.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, c. 1638–1639

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael : identifiable by second folio as the first part of K XII P in cat. i (Mainz, StB I 577, fol. 257r ‘Sermones de tempore et sanctis', 2o fo ‘sensus hominum ut intelligerunt’) and the first part of K XI S a in cat. ii (Mainz, StB, Hs. I 576, fol. 155r, 2o fo ‘sensus hominum’). (The second part of K XII P / K XI S is now MS. Laud Misc. 488.)

William Laud, 1573–1645: ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Title

Geoffrey Babio, Sermons

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 474

Date

12th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

84 Leaves

Custodial history

Has two points inside many of its red initials. Manuscript 2530 acquired by the Bodleian Library