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John Cassian (excerpts) Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2

MS. Laud Misc. 186

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Title

John Cassian (excerpts) Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 186

Date

14th century, second half

Language

Latin

Contents

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 580–585. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
1. (fol. 1*ar–v) Additions, s. xivex/xvin.
2. (fol. 1br–13v) John Cassian De institutis coenobiorum
3. (13v–36v) John Cassian Collationes

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (17th-cent.) + 36 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves

Hands

Textualis, by a single hand

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Limp parchment case binding for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639

Acquisition

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1*av: ‘Liber iste est fratrum Carthusiensium prope Mogunciam’, and the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the lower left-hand margin of fols 1br and 36v: ‘(.)codex carthusiensium moguntie(.)’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower part of fol. 1*av.

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Title

John Cassian, De institutis coenobiorum and Collationes (extracts)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 186

Date

14th century

Language

Latin

Physical facet

Limp vellum binding

Physical extent

36 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2459 acquired by the Bodleian Library

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Collection contents

Laudian Collection

John Cassian, De institutis coenobiorum and Collationes (extracts)

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  • Laud, William, 1573-1645

  • Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435

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