Jacobus de Paradiso — 1464 - c. 1470; Germany, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
MS. Laud Misc. 586
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Jacobus de Paradiso — 1464 - c. 1470; Germany, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 586
Date
1464 - c. 1470
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
151 fols.
Hands
Fols. 2r-101ra: hybrida
Fols. 101rb-151v: textualis
Decoration
Red and blue initials with ornamention and fleuronnée penwork in green and violet, by a flourisher also found in MS. Laud Misc. 260 and Wiesbaden, LB, Hs. 21.
Binding
Laudian binding, 1637–1639.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
1464 on fol. 101 is probably the date of writing, rather than the date of the text, and covers fols. 1–101 Fols. 101 col. 2 to 151, with different script and somewhat plainer decoration, may have been written later, but a fifteenth century contents list (fol. 1v) includes items 1–3 above (see Watson).
Attributed to the Eberbach scriptorium (‘probably’) by Palmer.
Identifiable as S 22 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
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Title
Jacobus Carthusiensis
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 586
Summary
Fol. 1v. Table of contents, 15th century, listing items 1-3
Fol. 2ra-50vb. Jacobus de Paradiso, De temptatione et consolatione religiosorum
Fol. 51ra-101ra. Jacobus de Paradiso, De malo huius saeculi
Fol. 101rb-112rb. Jacobus de Paradiso, De arte curandi vitia
Fol. 112rb-133rb. Jacobus de Paradiso, De potestate daemonum
Fol. 133va-151vb. Jacobus de Paradiso, De arcta et lata via
Date
1464-c. 1470
Language
Latin
Physical extent
151 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2742 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Jacobus Carthusiensis
