Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 286
| England |
| Oxford |
| Bodleian Library |
| Laud Misc. 286 |
| SC 1151 |
| s. xvin |
| English |
| McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin distinguish 7 hands but only analyse the dialect of 5. Scribe of ff. 2va-5vb - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 406 330, LP 260 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribe of ff. 5vb-34vb - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 407 338, LP 177. Scribe of ff. 35ra-36vb, 126ra-127va - Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 418 387, LP 303. Scribe of ff. 36vb-125vb - Scribal Dialect: South Yorkshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not given, LP 262. Scribe of ff. 38vb, 40ra - Scribal Dialect: not analysed. Scribe of ff. 127va-end - Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, pp. 149-150).
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An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing Richard Rolle's
English Psalter.
Item: 1| f. 1r-v |
| Prologue to Rolle's Commentary on the Psalter (IMEV 3576) |
| 'This blessyd boke that here begynneth full of louyng'. |
| 'vs to že blysse ful bri... amen'. |
| This is a unique preface to the prologue of Rolle's English Psalter. The explicit is defective due to crumpling of the leaf. |
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Item: 2| ff. 1v-2va |
| English Psalter: Prologue |
| 'Grete plente of gostly confort and ioy'. |
| 'in hope žat gode men hafen of treuže is žat euel men dispise her wordes and her werkes'. |
| The Prologue to Rolle's English Psalter with Lollard interpolations. |
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Item: 3| ff. 2va-154v |
| English Psalter (IPMEP 271) |
| 'Beatus uir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum et in uia peccatorum ... žis psalme he spekež of crist and his folwers blandischyng to vs byhetyng blisfulhed to ry?twys men syžen he spekež of ueniaunce to wyccod men žat žey drede peyne...'. |
| 'že whilk instrument of musik gostly melody is betokynd žat more is perceyfid with pure thou?t žen with eryn of body forži ilke a spirit loue že lord'. |
| Text with Lollard interpolations until Psalm 17:50. |
Bramley 1884.
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Item: 4| ff. 154va-162vb |
| The Six Old Testament Canticles (IPMEP 134) |
| 'Confitebor tibi domine quoniam iratus es mihi conuersus est furor tuus et consolatus es me i shal shrife til že lorde for žou ert wrethid til me turnyd is ži breth and žou me confortyd'. |
| 'in trouth and charite all ožer wonnys in že land of že deuyls folke til whom he is ri?twys in veniaunce and punyshing'. |
| Text appended to Rolle's Psalter. |
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Item: 5| ff. 162vb-163vb |
| The Magnificat (IPMEP 134) |
| 'Magnificat anima mea dominum my soul worshippys že lorde our lady seynt mary aftur že gretyng of gabriel že conceyuyng of goddis sun že blessyng of elizabeth žat kald hur modur of hur lorde she rose not in heghenes of thou?t ne in bolnyng of pride bot in swetnes of hert'. |
| 'of žis way thoro takyng of blisfulhed he brynges vs out of all wrechidnes of synne and sorow and settys vs in the ioy of heuen amen'. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 340 x 240 mm |
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Catchwords: ff. 8v; 16v; 24v; 32v; 42v; 50v; 58v; 66v; 74v; 82v; 90v; 98v; 106v; 114v; 122v; 133v; 141v; 149v; 157v.
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| Pricking, where visible, of horizontal slits. Writing space of c. 255 x 90 mm with double columns and 42 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. |
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One scribe writing in black ink in an Anglicana hand. Characteristics: single compartment a in initial position; looped ascender on d; reversed circular e; single compartment g with pointed head; thorn; B-shaped final s. Body height: 2mm.
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| F. 1r: three-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Other folios: three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into margins. One-line blue or red Lombardic initials. Latin underlining in red. Blue and red paraphs.
Heraldic shields: f. 2v bottom margin: Bishop Laud's shield with bishop's hat on top. F. 161v: black cross with white fleur de lys on a shield that is white, shield surrounded by a wreath of gold/green leaves with flowers - a later addition?
F. 17 v bottom margin: descender of g turns into a man's head with beard and red tinted hat.
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Not medieval. Size: 360 x 255 mm. Cover of tan leather with blind tooled lines around edge and central gold stamped shield of Archbishop Laud. Five raised bands across the spine.
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| ff. i (parchment flyleaf) + 164; f. 164 is a parchment flyleaf. |
| Heraldic illumination. |
| Good, but f. 2 shrunken and the first and last folios have wormholes. |
| Unknown |
| First flyleaf, f. i, contains beginning of will of of Stone or Stoue, 1496. On the last page are the names 'Thomae peinton' and . |
| 'Liber Guil: Laud Archiepi Cant: et Cancillar: Universit: Oxon 1638', f. 1r. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003.
- Bramley, H. R., ed, 1884. The Psalter or Psalms of David, and Certain Canticles, with a Tr. And Exposition by R. Rolle, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Deanesley, M. 1920. ‘Vernacular Books in England in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries’, Modern Language Review, 17, 349-358.
- Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall, London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 86, no. 658.
- Hudson, A. 1989. ‘Lollard Book Production’, in Griffiths, J., and Pearsall, D., ed, Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 125-142, p. 135.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Madan, F., and Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 49.
- Ogilvie-Thompson, S. J. 2000. The Index of Middle English Prose: Manuscripts in the Laudian Collection Bodleian Library, Oxford, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 36-38.
