Miscellanea. Germany, A) (fols 1–102) s. xivin; B) (fols 103–166) c.1300; C) (fols 167–174) s. xiii2.

Title

Miscellanea. Germany, A) (fols 1–102) s. xivin; B) (fols 103–166) c.1300; C) (fols 167–174) s. xiii2.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 181

Date

13th century, second half

c. 1300

Early 14th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (17th-cent) + 175 + ii (17th-cent) leaves

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: A miscellany of three different, German, parts, which existed in this form already in the 14th century (see Foliation, above). The 24 leaves missing at the beginning of the volume went lost some time after the foliation was inserted, but before fascicle A, which bears a late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse, received its quire signatures.

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

Title

Bonaventura, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 181

Summary

David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione

Ps.-Bonaventure (James of Milan), Stimulus amoris

Theological treatises

Bonaventure, De triplici uia

Bonaventure, Lignum uitae

William de la Furmentarie (?) (Ps.-Bonaventure), Pharetra (imperfect)

Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum

Sermons

Ps.-Augustine, De XII abusiuis saeculi

Date

14th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

174 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2451 acquired by the Bodleian Library