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MS. Laud Misc. 170

Summary Catalogue no.: 669

‘Contemplationes Bernhardi’; Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de virtutibus (excerpts). Germany, s. xivin

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. 390–397 (with additional information on item 1). For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols. 1r–32r)
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Contemplationes Bernardi

Here in the version called 'Gemma animae': critical edition in progress by Elias Dietz (notified Dec. 2020).

1.1. (fols. 1r–17r)
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, De domo conscientiae (preface, cap. 1–28) Ed. PL 184. 507C–38C; – Glorieux, Migne, 71; Bloomfield 1787, this copy, & 2294, and suppl.; Goy, Überlieferung Hugos, 494, no. 12; see also ‘Domo (De interiori)’, DS 3 (1956) 1548–51 [P. Delhaye]; Kurz v/1. 49, 91 & 158 and CPPM 2. 3089 & 3090 (Ps.-Augustine). The work constitutes the first part of book 3 of Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor, De anima. Initials and rubrics introduce 28 textual units; these divisions mostly differ from those of the edition, as occasionally does the text itself.
Language(s): Latin
1.2. (fols. 17r–19v)
Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor, De anima (3. 50) Ed. PL 177. 165A–70D.
1.3. (fols. 19v–27r)
Ps.-Augustine, Manuale

Text occasionally different from ed., and shorter; 17 textual units, by two- or three-line initials in red.

Preface, cap. 1–36 (pr. Strasbourg, c.1476 (GW 2969), etc.; ed.: PL 40. 951–68; for the preface and cap. 1–24 (PL, loc. cit., 951–62) see also PL 177. 171A–83B (Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor, De anima, 4. 1–(part of) 11); – Glorieux, Migne, 28; PLS 2. 1366; Römer ii/1. 121f.; Bloomfield 4957, and suppl.; CPPM 2. 3074; see also ‘Augustin (Apocryphes attribués à saint)’, DS 1 (1937) 1130–35, at col. 1132 [F. Cavallera].
1.4. (fols. 27r–32r)
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, De domo conscientiae (29–41)

Continuation of item 1.1

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols. 32r–36r)
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de virtutibus (excerpts)
Rubric: De caritate, cap. 3
Incipit: De amore dei – Notandum quod ad amandum deum incitat nos sacra scriptura. Incitat et natura.
Explicit: pro quibus deo gratiarum acciones agende sunt. secundum illud Bernardi. que tibi data sunt bona disce ad singula gratias agere.

Fol. 36v blank.

Hauréau, Initia, 4. 167va, this copy, text not identified.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: facite mihi
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii (17th-cent.) + 36 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.154–57 × 110–15 mm.
Foliation: i-ii, 1-38 (in 19th-cent. pencil)
Foliation: Late medieval foliation supplied by a hand of s. xivex/xv, from the Mainz Charterhouse, as suggested by the ink: arabic numerals, in the top right corner, occasionally cropped

Layout

Ruling in lead point, partly faded, one column of 29–39 lines. Ruled space c.123–32 × 78–87 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis with cursive features by a single hand.

A hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse occasionally added omitted titles in the margins.

Decoration

Rubrication by the scribe.

Binding

Limp parchment case over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: Germany; s. xivin The dating, which is based on palaeographical evidence, may indicate that the book was produced prior to the foundation of the Mainz Charterhouse. The booklet, in its present form, appears to have originally been part of a larger book, as suggested by the remnants of a tab marker in the lower outer margin of fol. 1.

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. ii verso.

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

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

Record Sources

See above; additional information on item 1 ex inf. Elias Dietz, Dec. 2020. 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. 154
Quarto Catalogue, col. 155
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 29

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. 399–405

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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