Nicholas de Gorran, Distinctiones theologicae. France, s. xiv1.

Title

Nicholas de Gorran, Distinctiones theologicae. France, s. xiv1.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 555

Date

14th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; medieval repairs (stitching, with plain thread) on fols 17, 31, 44, 64, 141 & 165. A bookmark made of brown-coloured thread horizontally sewn into the outer centre of fol. 167, marking the end of the Distinctiones and beginning of the tabula; damaged now.

Physical extent

i (17th-cent.) + 170 + i (17th-cent.) leaves

Hands

French textualis, s. xiv1, mainly one hand. Occasional corrections and marginal annotations in the text hand and in younger hands of s. xiv–xv, one of which is responsible for the foliation and correction of the tabula; another one corrected the initial on fol. 70ra and sporadically added paraphs, in black ink, e.g. on fol. 62ra–rb: these hands may well be from the Mainz Charterhouse. Two additional hands of s. xivex, possibly from the Mainz Charterhouse, writing in textualis: 1) (fols 168va–170rb) item 2; 2) (fol. 170va–vb) item 3.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Initials secondarily infilled, with acanthus motif, in Charterhouse ink.

Rubrication.

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 late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’. Identifiable as F XXI S in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Title

Nicholas de Gorran, Distinctiones theologicae

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 555

Date

14th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

170 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2600 acquired by the Bodleian Library