Thomas Cisterciensis — 12th century, end; German,
MS. Laud Misc. 150
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Thomas Cisterciensis — 12th century, end; German,
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 150
Date
12th century, end
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
188 folios
Hands
4 or 5 hands.
Decoration
Historiated initial (fol. 3r): Christ and Ecclesia as bride and bridegroom.
Coloured initials with penwork decoration.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
Cistercian monastery of Eberbach: contemporary ex libris, fol. 2v.
Probably identifiable as ‘g 3’ in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
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Title
Comm. in Cantica Canticorum
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 150
Summary
1. (fol. 1) Table of sermons for item 3
2. (fol. 2v) Three hymns to the Virgin:
Incipit: Ave Maria gratia plena | Dominus tecum, virgo serena AH liv.337
Incipit: Ave mundi spes Maria | Ave mitis, ave pia AH xxxii.38
Incipit: Salve mater Salvatoris, vas electum vas honoris AH liv.383; Walther 1945
Hec commenta Thomas Salomonis scripsit in odas Ob quod eum dita, Jhesu pie, perpete vita Rubric to item 3, misinterpreted by Coxe and Pächt and Alexander as a reference to the scribe and/or artist of the manuscript
Scribal (?) verses, 12 lines. Incipit: Mistica verba patent celesti plena sapore
Thomas Cisterciensis, Commentary on the Song of Songs:
Incipit: (fol. 3r) Osculetur me osculo, etc. Tria sunt epithalamia, primum hystoricum, secundum philosophicum, tertium theologicum
Explicit: qua perpetuo fruator, Ipso prestante Qui vivit et regnat in secula seculorum Amen
Fol. 3r. Eight lines of verse in the upper and lower margins, Incipit: Omnia precellit christi dilectio plena
Followed by three further hymns to the Virgin:
Incipit: Verbum bonum et suave | Personemus illud Ave | Per quod Christi fit cum clave AH liv.343
Incipit: Gaude, mater luminis | Quam divini numinis | Visitavit gratia AH liv.358
Incipit: Hodierne lux diei | Celebris in matris Dei | Agitur memoria AH x.41
Date
12th century, end
Language
Latin
Physical extent
188 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2445 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Comm. in Cantica Canticorum
