A Porphyry, Aristotle, Cicero, with commentaries of Boethius, Germany (Mainz?), 11th century; B John of Hildesheim, Speculum fons vitae, Germany, 14th century

Title

A Porphyry, Aristotle, Cicero, with commentaries of Boethius, Germany (Mainz?), 11th century; B John of Hildesheim, Speculum fons vitae, Germany, 14th century

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 49

Place of origin

German, Mainz (?)

German

Date

14th century, second half

added decoration c. 1300

11th century (first quarter?)

Language

Latin

Contents

Physical extent

i + 176 + i (i, 1–177)

Binding

Laudian binding, re-backed.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?): the whole volume probably identifiable as R 23 in the catalogue of 1502 ('Textus porphirii cum commento Item quidem tractatus marci T Item libellus qui dicitur fons vite Initium Cum sit ne-'; N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), 251, without reference to this manuscript).

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Title

Logica, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 49

Summary

Part 1, 11th century, early:

Porphyry; Aristotle, Logica uetus

Alcuin, De dialectica

Cicero, Topica

Cicero, De inuentione

Part 2, 14th century: John of Hildesheim, Speculum fontis uitae

Date

11th and 14th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

176 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2643 acquired by the Bodleian Library