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.
with prologue
Physical Description
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
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
Digital Images
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Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-01-24: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.