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MS. Laud Misc. 116

Summary Catalogue no.: 1433

Augustine, In epistolam Iohannis ad Parthos tractatus x. Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv1.

Contents

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 385–388, with additional information on provenance supplied by the encoder. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols. 1ra–41v)
Augustine, In epistulam Iohannis ad Parthos tractatus X,

with prologue

Colophon: Explicit exposicio Sancti augustini episcopi in primam epistolam canonicam Ioannis euangeliste Quamuis ipsa epistola nondum sit finita | Cuius exposicionis residuum vide Sanctum bernardum in Dominica octave pasce.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: nos designati
Form: codex
Support: parchment (fols. 1–14, 23–24) , paper (fols. 15–22, 25–41) (fols. 16, 19, 20, 22) a crown with arches consisting of two lines, with pearls; above a double line cross with a star of one line; additional motif in rim (Piccard ix 48/49); (fols. 28, 29, 32–34, 36, 38, 40) with watermark of a unicorn, entire, vertical/salient; (fols. 28, 33, 34, 36, 38) upward or (fols 29, 32, 40) downward, with a few ringlets on the horn (Piccard).
Extent: ii (17th-cent.) + 41 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.236–51 × 171–76 mm.
Foliation: i-ii, 1-43

Layout

Ruling patterns vary with the scribes: hand 1) in ink and lead point; two columns of 41–47 lines of text. Ruled space c.173–82 × 128–32 mm.

hand 2) (fols. 15r–41v) in hard or lead point, one column of c.31–37 unruled lines.

Hand(s)

Textualis, with features of bastarda, by two hands from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Scribal fleuronnée initials.

Plain initials.

Rubrication by the text hand: hand 1) red rubrics; hand 2) no rubrication, but planned.

Binding

Limp vellum binding over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: German, Mainz; s. xv1 (Judging from script, ink, and style.)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: Formerly one volume with MS. Laud Misc. 115, and identifiable as C IIII T in the second catalogue of the Mainz Carthusians, StB Mainz, Hs I 576, fol. 101r: 'Augustinus super canonicum Ioannis / Idem de fide ad petrum / Item de dogmatibus seu regulis ecclesiaticis / Petrus Clareuall super canonem', 2o folio 'nos designati'.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1v.

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

Record Sources

See above; additional information on provenance (identification as C IIII T in the catalogue) supplied by Matthew Holford, Dec. 2021. 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, col. 124
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 61

Digital Images

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Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 385–388

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-24: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.