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Theological treatises, meditations and extracts. Germany, s. xiv 2/4.

MS. Laud Misc. 493

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Title

Theological treatises, meditations and extracts. Germany, s. xiv 2/4.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 493

Date

14th century, second quarter

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. 1287–1310. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
1. (fols 2r–10v) Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
2. (fols 10v–11r) Ps.-Bede Interpretatio Sibyllinorum verborum
3. (fol. 11r–v) Guilelmus Flaviacensis Sermon (De castitatis laude)
4. (fols 11v–15v) Ps.-Bonaventure Meditationes super passionem domini secundum septem horas diei
5. (fols 16r–20v) Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux Formula honestae uitae
6. (fols 20v–23v) Hugh of Saint-Victor De laude caritatis
7. (fol. 23v) Hugh of Saint-Victor De tribus signis boni status
8. (fols 23v–27br) Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux Planctus mariae
9. (fols 27br–28r) Religious poem (De amore spirituali)
10. (fols 28v–46r) David von Augsburg De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione
11. (fols 46r–52v, l. 12) David von Augsburg De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione
12. (fols 53r–57r) Ps.-Anselm of Canterbury Meditatio de humanitate Christi (medit. 9)
13. (fols 57r–63v, l. 22) Richard of St. Victor De quatuor gradibus violentae caritatis
14. (fols 63v, l. 22–64r) Gregory the Great Homiliae in Ezechielem
15. (fols 64r–65v) Theological extracts
16. (fol. 66r, ll. 1–10) Historia monachorum in Aegypto
17. (fol. 66r, ll. 11–26) Jerome Letters
18. (fol. 66r, ll. 27–33) Treatise on the Passion (De coronis)
19. (fols 66r, l. 34–67r, l. 23) Jerome Letters
20. (fol. 67r, ll. 24–39) Verses
21. (fol. 67v) Treatise on penitence (De paenitentia Salomonis)
22. (fol. 67v) Histories of the Holy Cross
23. (fols 67v–69r) Ars praedicandi (De octo modis dilatandi sermones)
24. (fol. 69r–v) Boethius Quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint
25. (fols 70r–78v) Jean de la Rochelle Summa de articulis fidei
26. (fols 78v–81v) Clement of Llanthony De sex alis cherubim
27. (fols 82r–85r) Ps.-Bonaventure Arbor amoris
28. (fols 85v–86r) James of Milan Stimulus amoris
29. (fol. 86r–v) Exempla

Form

codex

Support

parchment; (fols 46, 78, 80, 81 & 84) traces of medieval repair (stitching holes); (fol. 21r) flaw, made good with a small parchment patch. Two types of bookmarks: (fols 16, 53, 57, 64, 70, 79 & 82, items 5, 12, 13, 15, 25–27) a blue-, (fol. 20, item 6) natural- and (fol. 67, presumably item 21) green-coloured, fine string, horizontally sewn into the outer margin; (fols 16, 20, 28 & 46) to items 5, 6, 10 & 11 a small parchment strip, pulled through vertical slits in the outer margin; (fol. 20) strip now lost.

Physical extent

i (17th-cent.) + 86 + i (17th-cent.) leaves

Hands

German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand, below top line. Marginal annotations by the scribe, contemporary to 15th-cent. hands.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication

Two schematic figures on fols 81v (Cherub, item 26) & 85r (Arbor amoris, item 27) in red and the ink of the text.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard 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 inscriptions at the lower margin of fol. 2r: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope magunciam.’ (boxed in) and, in the same hand, at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 86v: ‘Codex cartusiensium maguncie’. MS. Laud Misc. 493 is one of three Laudiani from the Mainz Charterhouse to preserve an old, 15th-cent., shelfmark: ‘C xviij S’, at the lower centre of fol. 2r. In the library, the present MS. was stored together with the items of subject C (containing Church Fathers and doctores ...) as no. 18 in the shelf belonging to the category S(ecundus) of desk C.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. 1v.

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Title

Theological treatises, meditations and extracts

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 493

Date

13th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

86 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2679 acquired by the Bodleian Library

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