Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 706
| England |
| Oxford |
| Bodleian Library |
| Laud Misc. 706 |
| SC 809 |
| s. xvin |
| English |
| Scribe of ff. 98v-109 - Scribal Dialect: Leicestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 437 319, LP 44. Scribe of ff. 144r-v, 156r-163v - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). |
Thirty-four Latin or macaronic sermons but with four predominantly in English. Some of the Latin texts are attributed to the Gloucestershire monk John Paunteley (ordained deacon and priest in 1392). Only the English texts are listed here. The manuscript is dated to c. 1412.
Item: 1.1| ff. 98r-110r |
| Sermon on the text 'Venit ira dei' (Ephesians 5:6) |
| 'Gentil ihesu in whom ys comprehendit my?th with comfort and vertu'. |
| 'synne no more the wrathe of god come therfore qui cum patre'. |
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Item: 1.2| f. 111v |
| What Christ endured for Man (IMEV 523) |
| 'Bitturnesse of sorow pacientliche he soffrid man to wynn'. |
| 'by thonke and satisfacion'. |
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Item: 2| ff. 146r-148r |
| Sermon on the text 'Estote sicut filii' (Ephesians 5:1) |
| 'Sextus julius de bello cesaris...beth ?e as gode childur oghe to be and i schal cum and remove the sege fro ?our be thys worthy prince...'. |
| 'and in thys prier ?e schal haue recomende etcetera'. |
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Item: 3| ff. 148r-152v |
| Second sermon on the text 'Estote sicut filii' |
| 'Bethe ?e as gode childrun owht to to [sic] be as y seyde before for the prosces of thes schort sermone'. |
| 'the generallyche when thow comyst to confessiun of alle...' |
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Item: 4| ff. 158r-165v |
| Sermon on the text 'Fructus lucis est in bonitate' (Ephesians 5:9) |
| 'Venerandi patres et amici as že famwes clerk lincolniensis rehersit in his tretis that he made de spera celesti sex signes žer be in qwyche že material sunne ascendit'. |
| 'within holy chirche or witheowt on the holy day or on the workeday...'. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 228 x 152 mm |
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16, ff. 1r-12v; 26, ff. 13r-24v, catchword; 36, ff. 25r-36v, catchword; 46, ff. 37r-48v, catchword; 56, ff. 49r-60v, catchword; 66 + 1 singleton, ff. 61r-71v; 76, ff. 72r-83v, catchword; 86, ff. 84r-95v, catchword; 96, ff. 96r-107v, catchword; 105 + 1 singleton, ff. 108r-118v; 116, ff. 119r-130v; 125, ff. 131r-140v; 136, ff. 141r-152v, catchword; 146, ff. 153r-163v; 156, ff. 164r-171v; 166, ff. 172r-181v.
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Writing space varies between c. 160 x 100-110 mm. Single columns with 33 lines ruled in pencil.
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Several different hands writing in small and compact Secretary scripts influenced by Anglicana.
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| Capitals in blue with red penwork. Some eleborate ascenders in brown ink (e.g. ff. 135-136).
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Medieval binding. Size: 230 x 150 mm. Cover of white leather dyed red now rubbed/faded and damaged showing the boards beneath. Boards of oak with a 15 mm bevelled edge. The binding is sewn with six raised double thongs and with the cover being square cut rather than mitred. Evidence of a clasp and remains of a leather strap on front. On the back cover is a square boss, perhaps of brass, which might not be original.
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| ff. ii + 181 + i |
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| Good. Some holes in the parchment ff. 92, 102. |
| Unknown |
| Possible marks of ownership on ff. 13r and 181v where the name along with the date 1412 is written. However, this could just be an attribution of the texts. John Paunteley was a monk of Gloucester, ordained deacon and priest in 1392 (Ogilvie-Thomson 2000, p. 92). |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003 with additional work by Orietta DaRold, University of Birmingham, June 2005.
- Brown, C. 1916. A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, 2 vols, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 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. 95, no. 716.
- Horner, P. J. ed, 1975. An Edition of Five Medieval Sermons from MS Laud Misc. 706, SUNY at Albany .
- 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. 35.
- Ogilvie-Thompson, S. J. 2000. The Index of Middle English Prose: Manuscripts in the Laudian Collection Bodleian Library, Oxford, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 92.
- Wenzel, S. 1994. Macaronic Sermons, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press , pp. 53-55, 173-77.
