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Pershore Legendary, 12th century, middle

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MS. Laud Misc. 114
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Part 1:

  1. Fol. 1r. Table of contents added in a late twelfth-century hand: |In hoc uolumine continentur Miracula sancti Andree apostoli. Et passio sancti Vincentii martiris
  2. Fol. 1v. Augustine, Retractiones 2.4.1
  3. Fols. 2r–23(b)v. Augustine, De doctrina christiana

Part 2:

  1. Fols. 24r–37v. Passio sancti Andree
  2. Fol. 38. Blank, with Fuit homo pen trial written at foot of fol. 38v

Part 3:

  1. Fol. 39r. Passio sancti Vincentii: Praeambulum II
  2. Fols. 39r–43v. Passio sancti Vincentii
  3. Fols. 43v–46v. Aimoin of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Historia translationis sancti Vincentii Liber I
  4. Fols. 46v–49v. Miraculi in Hispania
  5. Fols. 49v–52v. Aimoin of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Historia translationis sancti Vincentii Liber II
  6. Fol. 52v–53v. Gregory of Tours, Liber miraculorum 1.88–89
  7. Fols. 53v–54v. Augustine, Sermon 276
  8. Fols. 54v–55r. Augustine, Sermon 277A
  9. Fols. 55r–61v. Augustine, Sermon 277
  10. Fols. 61v–65(b)v. Passio sancti Ignacii
  11. Fols. 65(b)v–68v. Passio sancti Blasii

Part 4:

  1. Fols. 69r–81v. Vita Willelmi ducis
  2. Fols. 82r–84r. Vita sancti Audoeni

Part 5:

  1. Fols. 85r–120r. Osbert of Clare, Vita sancte Eadburge uirginis
  2. Fol. 120v. Passio sancti Thome
  3. Fols. 130r–131v. Added sketches of men and women in sixteenth-century garb; with caption on fol. 131r, Cor non est letum dum perstat ad hostia letum

Part 6:

  1. Fols. 132r–140r. Robert of Cricklade, Vita sancte Frideswide uirginis
  2. Fols. 140r–158r. Robert of Shrewsbury, Vita sancte Wenefrede
  3. Fols. 158r–163v. Translatio sancte Wenefrede

Part 7: Fols. 164r–184r. Passio sancte Katerine

Dates

  • Creation: 12th century, middle

Extent

170 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 114

Arrangement

Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘L 21’, see Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, p. 14

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 1547

Henry O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars secunda codices Latinos et Miscellaneous Laudianos complectens (Oxford, 1885, reprinted in 1973, with numerous corrections and additions, and an historical introduction by R.W. Hunt), Misc. no. 114

Custodial History

Brian Twyne (vol. xxii. fol. 89) states that this MS. once belonged to a dr. John Price, and was in his (Twyne's) time in Jesus College, Oxford. Manuscript 2269 acquired by the Bodleian Library

Repository Details

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