Theological Miscellany. Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2.

Title

Theological Miscellany. Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 324

Date

14th century, second half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

(fols 1–77) parchment, of varying thickness; some natural flaws and holes, (fol. 2) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes); (fols 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40 & 42) missing ends and edges made good before the ruling was applied and the text was written on.(fols 78–82) Paper, significantly smaller than the rest of the textblock; (fol. 79) remnants of a watermark in the upper left-hand corner, a small bull’s head with cross.

Physical extent

ii (i modern, ii 17th-cent.) + 82 + ii (i 17th-cent., ii modern) leaves

Hands

textualis, s. xiv2, Mainz Charterhouse, by 1) (fols 1r–73r) one main hand. Further hands: 2) (fol. 73r) item 14, including the header on fol. 73v, from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv; 3) (fols 73v–74v) item 15, script of s. xiv; 4) (fols 74v–75r) item 16, two hands, changing on fol. 75r, l. 2; 5) (fol. 75r) item 17; 6) (fols 75v–76v) items 18 & 19, probably identical with hand 5; 7) responsible for the additions on fols 77ra–82ra (item 20) and the foliation (see above). ex;

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

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 lower left-hand margin of fol. 74v: ‘codex cartusiensium moguncie’, and the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of 77v: ‘Liber iste pertinet ad carthusienses prope Mogunciam’. Identifiable as D VII T in cat. ii.

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

Title

Theological extracts

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 324

Summary

Part 1:

Johannes Climacus, Scala paradisi (extracts)

Isaac Ninivita, De contemptu mundi (extracts)

Theological extracts

Part 2:

Henricus Calcariensis (d. 1408), Tractatus de quotidiano holocausto siue Exercitatorium monachale siue cartusiense

Cassian; Basil the Great, (extracts)

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

81 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2584 acquired by the Bodleian Library