Iohannes Maxentius; Würzburg, Domstift, or Niederaltaich (Gozbald), c. 825–855.
MS. Laud Misc. 580
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Iohannes Maxentius; Würzburg, Domstift, or Niederaltaich (Gozbald), c. 825–855.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 580
Date
7th century
c. 825–55
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (17-cent. paper) + 1 (17-cent. parchment) + 66 + i (17-cent. parchment) + i (17th-cent. paper) leaves The margins trimmed, partly affecting quire signatures.
Hands
Carolingian minuscule, c. 825–855 (Gozbald); from fol. 48r onwards, the script is considerably larger.
Decoration
Plain initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 15); twist decoration on initials on fols. 11r, 31v, and 48r; hollow initial on f. 50r.
Binding
A binding fragment (CLA 2. 254) of s. vii provides evidence of a previous (possibly original) Carolingian binding.
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
Written c.825–855, by scribes of the Gozbald group: based on paleographical evidence.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: a 15th-cent. shelfmark on fol. 2r. The manuscript appears to have been as a whole, together with Laud Misc. 92, in the Domstift in the 16th century in the hands of Willibald Pirkheimer (he and J. Cochläus printed the works of Maxentius together with Fulgentius in 1520 (Hagenau); MSS. Laud Misc. 92 & 580 were not included). He had received it through Nikolaus Basellius, a monk from Hirsau, to whom he returned it (ACO 4. 2, pp. II f.; Siegmund, Überlieferung, 155, n. 2).
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 2r.
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Title
Iohannes Maxentius
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 580
Summary
Fols. 2r–9r. Johannes Maxentius, Libellus fidei
Fols. 9r–10r. Johannes Maxentius, Capitula contra Nestorianos et Pelagianos edita
Fols. 10r–11r. Johannes Maxentius, Professio brevissima catholicae fidei
Fol. 11r. Johannes Maxentius, Brevissima adunationis ratio Verbi Dei ad propriam carnem
Fols. 11v–13v. Johannes Maxentius, Responsio contra Acephalos
Fols 13v–18v. Leo the Great, Ep. 28
Fols 18v–48r. Johannes Maxentius, Dialogus contra Nestorianos: Fol. 18v. Preface, Fol. 19v. List of chapters, Fol. 20r. Text
Fols. 48r–50r. Hormisdas, Epistula ad Possessorem episcopum (ep. 124 Thiel)
Fols. 50r–67v. Johannes Maxentius, Responsio adversus epistulam Hormisdae: Fol. 67v. List of contents
(fols. 68r–69v are blank)
Date
c. 825–855
Language
Latin
Physical extent
67 Leaves
Custodial history
From St Kylian, Würzburg. Old shelfmark clxviij, companion vol. to MS. Laud Lat. 92. Interlaced initials on ff. 31v, 48. Manuscript 2565 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Iohannes Maxentius
