MS. Laud Misc. 138

Summary Catalogue no.: 1567

Augustine, Ps.-Augustine; England, 13th century, middle

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 1v)

Thirteenth-century table of contents. Fol. 1r blank.

1. (fol. 2)

Augustine, De natura et origine animae (bk. 1)

Rubric: Aurelii Augustini liber incipit de anima et origine ejus

Incipit: Sinceritatem tuam erga nos

Explicit: sine aliqua dilatione conscripsi

2. (fol. 8v)

Augustine, De disciplina christiana

Rubric: Sermo S. Augustini episcopi de disciplina Christianorum

3. (fol. 11v)

Augustine, Serm. 97

Rubric: Sermo sancti Augustini de novissimo die vitae

Incipit: Fratres quia audistis monentem scripturam

Explicit: forte moritur forte non moritur

4. (fol. 12)

Ps.-Augustine, Sermo de misericordia

Incipit: Misericordia, fratres karissimi, peccatorum est remedium

Version of Serm. App. 310, PL 39 col. 2340–2; cf. MS. Lyell 55 fol. 112v.

5. (fol. 13)

Quodvultdeus (Ps.-Augustine), Sermo de tempore barbarico (serm. 11) (extract)

Rubric: Item sermo sancti Augustini de patientia et misericordia

Incipit: Flagellat Deus omnem filium, quem recipit. Disciplinam ejus sustinete sicut filios, ita vos aggreditur deus

Explicit: ut ipsi recipiant vos in eterna tabernacula

6. (fol. 14)

Augustine, Serm. 367

Rubric: Item sermo sancti Augustini de divite et Lazaro

Incipit: Advertit sanctitas vestra

7. (fol. 14v)

Ps.-Augustine, Sermo 232 de S. Trinitate

Rubric: Sermo sancti Augustini episcopi de Trinitate

Incipit: Audio, fratres karissimi, quod quidam inter se disputant

8. (fol. 15)

Ps.-Augustine, De assumptione beatae Mariae

Rubric: Interrogatio de assumptione gloriose virginis Dei genitricis Marie. Beatus Augustinus.

Incipit: Ad interrogata de virginis

9. (fol. 18)

Ps.-Augustine, Dialogus quaestionum LXV

10. (fol. 25v)

Augustine, De praesentia Dei ad Dardanum (ep. 187)

11. (fol. 30)

Augustine, Serm. 351 de utilitate agendae poenitentiae

Rubric: Aurelii Augustini de penitentia liber incipit

Incipit: Quam sit utilis

12. (fol. 34v)

Pelagius (Ps.-Augustine), De vita Christiana ad sororem

Rubric: Incipit liber sancti Augustini ad sororem de vita Christiana

13. (fol. 39v)

Caesarius of Arles, Serm. 206

Rubric: Incipit admonicio ejusdem, ut non solum lingua sed etiam moribus et opere laudetur Deus, quia quale est quod cogitatur in corde tale est quod procedit in opere, et de purgatoriis penis.

Incipit: Resurreccio et clarificacio

14. (fol. 40v)

Augustine, De gratia Novi Testamenti

15. (fol. 52v)

Augustine, De utilitate credendi

16. (fol. 61v)

Augustine, Sermo 277

Rubric: De basilica in Natali gloriosi martiris Vincentii restituta

17. (fol. 64v)

Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia

Rubric: Epistola beati Augustini doctoris ad Valerium comitem et quasi praefatio in librum, qui sequitur

18. (fol. 80v)

Paulinus (Ps.-Augustine), De documentis salutaribus

Rubric: Aurelii Augustini Yponiensis episcopi ad Valerium comitem karissimum sibi de Instistucione vite. Liber incipit.

19. (fol. 93)

Augustine, De beata vita ad Theodorum

20. (fol. 97)

Augustine, Liber tres contra Academicos

With prologue.

21. (fol. 108v)

Augustine, De ordine rerum

With prologue.

22. (fol. 120)

Vigilius Thapsensis (Ps.-Augustine), Contra Felicianum hereticum ad Theodotum

Final rubric: Explicit Augustinus contra Felicianum

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: ut iudicaretur dampnanda

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii (paper) + 1 + 127 + ii (paper)

Dimensions (leaf): c. 295 × c. 205 mm.

Foliation: i-iii, 1-129 in 19th-century pencil.

Layout

Ruled in leadpoint for 2 columns of usually 40 lines. Ruled space c. 200 × 135 mm. (inner bounding lines), c. 10 mm. between columns; ruling between columns; written below top line.

Decoration

Penwork.

Binding

Standard binding of the Laudian collection, calf over pasteboard; pastedowns of printed waste.

History

Origin: 13th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

DM in margins (contemporary) (fols. 68v-69r, etc.). Column numbering in a later hand (? s. xiv; cf. notes keyed to index, fol. 127v).

Dore, Herefordshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber monachorum Sancte Marie Wallis Dore" (s. xv, on fol. 1v, facing the first page of text). "Liber sancte marie Wallis Dore qui eum fraude furaverit" (s. xv ex.) at end of MS. (fol. 126v). Erased inscription in red and perhaps of s. xiii/ xiv, above the other on fol. 126v, appears to have read "Liber monachorum Sancte Marie Vallis [...]" |(with "Dore" later written over the final word). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Thomas Blage', 16th century, fol. 1r.

'Matthew Allen', 16th century, fol. 2r

'William Le Neve Clarencieux', fol. 126v, with his arms (after 1635, when le Neve was Clarenceux King of Arms).

William Laud (1573–1645), archbishop of Canterbury, 1638 (fol. 2r, with his arms).

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Adapted by Matthew Holford (May 2024) with limited additional description from 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. 136

Quarto Catalogue, col. 137

Quarto Catalogue, p. 548

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 67