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MS. Laud Misc. 113

Summary Catalogue no.: 1548

Augustine, De libero arbitrio and Enarrationes in Psalmos (119–150), Mainz, s. xi1/4: A) (fols. 1-47) || B) (fols. 48–245)

Physical Description

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 376–383. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii (17th-cent.) + 245 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i-ii, 1-247

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: 11th century, first quarter ; German, Mainz

Provenance and Acquisition

A book of two parts, each associated with the school of Archbishop Willigis at Mainz, s. xi1/4; bound together at any rate by the late 14th/15th century: see the table of contents at the upper margin of fol. 1r in a Carthusian hand of s. xivex/xvin from Mainz, the bookmarks and quire signatures. The condition of the first recto of fascicle B, fol. 48r, shows that the two parts were separate at some point, either prior to when they were at the Charterhouse, or later.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 113 - part A (fols. 1-47)

Contents

1. (fols. 1v–46r)
Augustine, De libero arbitrio
Language(s): Latin

Fol. 1r blank, except for the ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse

Ed. W. M. Green, CSEL 74 (1956), the present MS. siglum ‘L’.
2. (fols. 46r–47v)
Bebo of Bamberg, Epistola iii ad Henricum II. imperatorem (imperfect)
Language(s): Latin

The counterpart of fol. 41 missing, which likely contained the rest of the letter. Hoffmann, Buchkunst, 1. 520, dates this copy into the years between 1020 and 1040.

Ed. Hoffmann, Buchkunst, 1. 517–20, after this copy.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: nisi bonum (fol. 2r)
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.220–30 × 166–80 mm.

Layout

Ruling in hard point, one column of 31 lines. Ruled space c.165–72 × 118–25 mm.

Hand(s)

Late Carolingian minuscule by two hands.

Corrections and marginal annotations in the same hand as in fascicle B.

Decoration

Romanesque initials

Rubrication by the scribe

History

Origin: German, Mainz; s. xi1/4 Paleographical evidence associates part A with the school of Archbishop Willigis at Mainz.

Provenance

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r. Identifiable as C I S in cat. ii.

MS. Laud Misc. 113 - part B (fols. 48–245)

Contents

3. (fols. 48r–244v)
Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos (cxix-cl)
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 245r–v)
Poems
Language(s): Latin

Fol. 245r blank, notes on the verso, in a different hand, s. xii:

Incipit: Dauid uates dei filius Isai betlehemite mangne[sic] fuit uite breuis in statura | ⟨s⟩ub manu dura uir bellicosus ualde gloriosus

The first stanza of the poem.

Ed. P. Dronke et al., ‘Die unveröffentlichten Gedichte der Cambridger Liederhandschrift (CUL Gg.5.35)’, MJb 17 (1982) 54–92, at p. 90; J. Ziolkowski, The Cambridge songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia), Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 192 (Tempe, Arizona, 21998) 158–61, at p. 158; – ICL suppl. 3344c.
Rubric: ⟨C⟩uonradus Gisila[sic] dulcis uita heinricus rex composuit uerbula hec
Incipit: hoc karoli fuerat singnum[sic] dum sceptra regebat | Nunc habet heinricus patri rengnando[sic] secundus

Hexameter

See Hoffmann, Buchkunst, 1. 16.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: seculi temporalitatem (fol. 49r)
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.220–30 × 135–81 mm.

Layout

Ruling in hard point, one column of 31 lines, above top line. Ruled space c.170–75 × 113–28 mm.

Hand(s)

Late Carolingian minuscule by a single hand; associated with the Willigis school at Mainz.

The hand is possibly identical with scribe E of St Gall, Stiftsbibl., Cod. 830 (Hoffmann, Buchkunst, 1. 253 & 257).

Corrections and marginal annotations in the same hand as in fascicle A.

Marginalia (fols. 83v & 108v) presumably in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Plain initials.

Rubrication by the scribe.

History

Origin: German, Mainz; s. xi1/4 Paleographical evidence associates part B with the school of Archbishop Willigis at Mainz.

Provenance

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: Late 14th-century ex-libris inscriptions, at the upper right-hand corner of fol. 48, and, in the same hand, at the lower margin of fol. 244v.

Additional Information

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 121–2
Quarto Catalogue, p. 547
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 66

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 376–383

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-23: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.