Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 482 (1054) Penitential and Confessional texts; offices for the sick and dying

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398. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 482 (1054)

Penitential and Confessional texts; offices for the sick and dying

[Ker 343, Gneuss 656]

HISTORY: Laud Misc. 482 is a small volume of penitential and confessional texts, without headings, rubrics, or table of contents, which Ker (Cat.) dates "s. xi med." The litany on f. 51v includes St . Ælpheage (d. 1012). It was in Worcester by the first half of the 13c when the tremulous hand annotated it. Several of the texts also occur in Bodleian Library, Junius 121 (391) ("Penitential of Pseudo-Egbert," "Confessional of Pseudo-Egbert," and parts of the "Handbook for the Use of a Confessor"), but often organized differently or with sections in a different order. In the mid 16c, Joscelyn annotated it alongside Junius 121 (see below, 'Post-medieval hands'). It is one of sixty manuscripts which certainly or very probably belonged to the medieval library at Worcester but was not catalogued by Young in 1622-1623. An inscription on f. i verso notes that Archbishop Laud gave the manuscript to the Bodleian in 1639. Formerly known as Laud F. 17.