Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis (in German); Germany, 1375

Title

Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis (in German); Germany, 1375

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 521

Date

1375

Language

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (17th century) + 242 leaves

Hands

German textualis by a single scribe, ‘Heinricus Regenboden de Cassel’, who completed the manuscript on 29 April 1375, his subscription (fol. 241r).

Decoration

Red headers; rubrics, colophon, chapter numbering, and paraphs; majuscules at the beginning of a sentence highlighted in red.

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 by ‘Heinricus Regenboden’ from Kassel (that is either Kassel on the Fulda River, which belonged to the Archbishopric Mainz, or the small village Kassel bei Gelnhausen). The language of the text is South Rhine Franconian; it might have been written on the right bank of the Rhine between Neckar and Murg or on the left bank of the Rhine, in the area of Speyer (Steer, Hugo Ripelin, 370 & 375). The Compendium was completed on 29 April 1375 (colophon, fol. 241r).

Fryelon, dominus: bequeathed the book to Mainz Charterhouse according to Mainz Charterhouse ex-libris inscription (fol. 241v).

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: four late 14th-/early 15th-century ex-libris inscriptions (fols. 1r, 11r, 138v and 241v); the 15th-century shelfmark ‘X xvij T’ from the Charterhouse (fol. 4r).

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 4r.

Title

Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis (German translation)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 521

Date

14th century

Language

German

Physical extent

241 Leaves

Custodial history

MS. Priebsch 148. Manuscript 2826 acquired by the Bodleian Library