MS. Lat. misc. d. 68
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Treatises on dictamen; southern Austria, first half 14th century
Contents
Miscellaneous inscriptions and pen-trials, upside-down, including:
A partial copy or draft of a document, headed ‘Reverendo in Christo’ and mentioning ‘domino .P. patriarche dignissimo’, perhaps Pagano della Torre, patriarch of Aquileia 1319–32.
‘Non plus sapere quam opportet ad sobrietatem tamen \longa/ sapere’ (cf. Romans 12:3).
Physical Description
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Binding
Medieval (original?) binding. Sewn on four double alum-tawed bands, laced at converging angles and pegged into wood boards with rounded edges, covered with pink-stained skin (the colour faded except for the back turn-ins), with a late- or post-medieval strap-and-pin fastening (and a 19th/20th-century leather strap), with vestiges of two original clasps at the fore-edge (all fastening from the back to the front board).
Traces of script on the inner face of the back board suggest the former presence of another pastedown.
The spine with a paper label printed with the Admont number ‘439’ (cf Provenance), and another 19th-century handwritten label, ‘Laurentius | de | Aquil. &c.’, overlapping an 18th(?)-century inscription on the spine itself.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Admont Stiftsbibliothek No. 439 (cf. spine), with their 19th-century armorial ink-stamp (fols. 1v, 106v) (cf. MS. Lat. misc. d. 66); traces of a paper label torn from the front pastedown (cf. that still present in MS. Lat. hist. e. 1); included in Jakob Wichner’s 1888 handwritten catalogue (pp. 192–93) where it is marked ‘Verkauft an Goldschmidt, London’ and ‘befindet sich in Oxford, Bodleyan[sic] Library’.
Not identifiable in the late-14th-century Admont catalogues (Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, III: Steiermark, ed. Gerlinde Möser-Mersky (1961)).
E. P. Goldschmidt, Catalogue 100 (1936), no. 10; marks in blue pencil in the margins are probably by him, drawing attention to personal and place-names (e.g. fol. 52r)
Bought by the Bodleian and inscribed in pencil ‘P[urchased] 8.XII.1936 Goldschmidt’ (front pastedown).
MS. Lat. misc. d. 68 - part A (fols. 1-10)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Written on a page originally left blank (because fols. 1v–9r are written as double-page spreads); added apparently later than the writing of the quire number in the lower left corner (cf. Collation).
Here without the prohemium; ending with the usual three-line verse (WIC 16387), here written in red.
Printed by S. Capdevila, ‘La Practica Dictaminis de Llorens d’Aquileia, en un còdex de Tarragona’, Analecta sacra tarraconensia, 6 (1930), 207–29 at 210–29. Kenneth Jensen, ‘The Works of Lawrence of Aquileia with a List of Manuscripts’, Manuscripta, 17 (1973), 147–58, describing the text at 151–52 and listing the present MS. at 156–57 (siglum ‘O2’). A.-M. Turcan-Verkerk and Claudio Felisi, ‘Les artes dictandi latines de la fin du xie à la fin du xive siècle: un état des sources’, in Le dictamen dans tous ses états: Perspectives de recherche sur la théorie et la pratique de l’ars dictaminis (XIe-XVe siècles, ed. B. Grévin and A.-M. Turcan-Verkerk (2015), 62.5Added letter of indulgence (without date) in the name of 'G. ... episcopus Sinonens.(?) Aquilegen. ecclesie vicarius generalis'.
Added copy of a document dated 3 Sept. 1321 witnessing the receipt by the episcopal curia of Paris of the bull ‘Vas electionis’ of John XXII, with the text of the bull.
Text of the bull pr. in Denifle, Chartularium Universitatis parisiensis, II. i (Paris, 1891), no. 798 pp. 243–45.
Added in a space originally left blank at the end of a quire.
Physical Description
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Layout
Ruled in ink for a wide column of up to 40/41 lines per page. Ruled space 165 × 140 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand, the additions by two other less neat hands
Decoration
None; rubricated.
History
MS. Lat. misc. d. 68 - part B (fols. 11-26)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
From A to X, followed by about a dozen that are out of alphabetical sequence.
For similar collections see Polak, Treatises, 399 (Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek, D. 2. mbr.), 495 (Clm 22294); HAB, Cod. Guelf. 96 Weiss., fols. 61r-66v; ONB Cod. 4135 fols. 134v-137v
The main text ed. by T. Wright, The Latin poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes (London, 1841), pp. 95–106.
Listed among numerous MSS. by H. Walther, Das Streitgedicht in der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Munich, 1920), p. 213 no.73.
The rare first quatrain is also found in Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. 11.1.4º 1, fol. 248v.
Physical Description
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Layout
Ruled in ink for 41 lines per page, partly (fols. 11r–15r, 21r–26v) in 2 columns. Ruled space c. 170 × 130 mm. Occasionally written above and below the ruled area.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand
Decoration
4-, 3-, and 2-line red initials, often with penwork flourishing in red and brown inks.
History
MS. Lat. misc. d. 68 - part C (fols. 27-74)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fols. 27r-74v been wrongly identified in the literature as containing a copy of or extracts from the Baumgartenberger Formularius (E. Polak, Medieval & Renaissance Letters Treatises ... (1994), 377-8, and F. J. Worstbrock in Verfasserlexikon I.645, following Lhotsky). Only the opening sentences of the preface on fol. 27r resemble the opening of the Baumgartenberg compilation; other sections (for example on privileges, cf. Das Baumgartenberger Formelbuch, ed. H. Baerwald (1866), 78-81) differ.
Preface
Letters
Privileges
Cf. BSB, Clm 6911 fols. 45v-46r.
Other documents
Privileges, judicial letters, etc.
Bottom of col. 50rb originally blank, later filled by two short additions:
Model letters
The first five letters (fols. 50v-51v) are highly rhetorical models for general occasions.
These are followed without a break (fols. 51v-53r) by letters with a central European setting, several in the name of Albrecht, Duke of Austria and Styria to H. [perhaps Henry VI, d. 1335] Duke of Carinthia, Count of Tyrol (e.g. fol. 52r); at fol. 53r is a letter from Ladislaus [Wenceslas III] king of Hungary to pope Clement [V] for assistance against the Tartars
Exordia
Followed without a break by longer extracts from model letters; one in the name of O. bishop of Cologne, another in the name of F. comes de ‘Schonneberch’
Model letters
For fol. 58v see H. Hageneder, 'Beiträge zur Geschichte der Minoriten in Enns von den Anfängen bis 1553, Mitteilungen des Oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs 11 (1974) 249-58 at 252-3 and n. 27. For fol. 61r see Eveline Brugger/Birgit Wiedl, Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis 1338 (2005), no. 72.
The connection with Cassiodorus is not clear; the text seems to be interspersed with fuller model letters.
Model letters
'Frater Hermanus' is unidentified.
Model letters
Many of the places mentioned in the letters and documents are in southern Austria and Friuli (cf. E.P. Goldschmidt cat. 100 p.10).
Physical Description
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Layout
Ruled in ink for 2 columns of 36-40 lines. Ruled space 165-70 × 130 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand
Decoration
3-, and 2-line red initials, often with penwork flourishing in red and brown inks.
History
MS. Lat. misc. d. 68 - part D (fols. 75-98)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
No other manuscripts are known. Including letters in the names of or supposedly addressed to R. bishop of ‘Cat.’ (fol. 79r), R. bishop of ‘Venar.’ (fol. 81r), G. bishop of Treviso [?Gualterius, c. 1251-5], (fol. 81v), Gregory, bishop of Syracuse [c. 1233-54] (fol. 86r).
No other copies are known. It is not entirely certain if this forms a single text, or (if not) where any constituent parts or additions begin and end. At fol. 89r-v are letters to ‘magistro Amadeo de Tarvisio’ (possibly the author?); fol. 92r, ‘Scribit dominus apostolicus domino G. Placen. condolens de rabie Ezelini’ [Ezzelino III da Romano, d. 1259]; fol. 93r ‘Hec est arenga de morte Ezelini …’; fol. 93v, ‘Scribit dominus G. de Camino super promocionem suam’; 95v, ‘scribit dominus patriarcha domino G. de Camino’; fol. 97v, on the election of a patriarch of Aquileia; Austrian examples fol. 98r-v.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled in ink for 2 columns of usually 40 lines. Ruled space 165-70 × 130 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand
Decoration
3- and 2-line red initials, sometimes with penwork flourishing in red and brown inks.
History
MS. Lat. misc. d. 68 - part E (fols. 99-106)
Contents
References to Bologna (fol. 99r); ‘super promocione domini G. de Camino’ [of Feltre] (fol. 103r); L. podesta of Ferrara to P[ietro] Gradenigo, doge of Venice [1289-1311] (fol. 103r); P[hilip] archbishop of Naples [1288-1301] (fol. 104r).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled in ink for 2 columns of 36-38 lines; ruled space 165 × 130 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand.
Decoration
2-line coloured red initials with simple ornament.
Descenders on the bottom line sometimes extending into decorative forms.
History
Additional Information
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Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-04: Description fully revised for Polonsky German digitization project.