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MS. Laud Misc. 185

Summary Catalogue no.: 794

Ps.-Augustine, De spiritu et anima; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; John Pecham, De corpore Christi (hymn) Germany (Mainz Charterhouse?), s. xivmed

Contents

Language(s): Latin

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 580–585. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 1ra–38vb)
Ps.-Augustine, De spiritu et anima,

1–50, with prologue (ed.: PL 40. 779– 816 (= Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor, De anima, 2, see PL 177. 165). The text, which ends with (ed.) cap. 50 (as do all collated MSS ascribed to Alcher or Hugh, see PL 40. 816, n. 2), is divided into 65 units by red initials and rubrics; subunits marked by red rubrics only. Distinctions not numbered.

(fols. 23va-24va) Interpolated text headed ‘De septiformi distinctione rerum.' See discussion in Mairhofer.
2. (fols 38vb–47ra)
Hugh of St.-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae

Abbreviated version, with (shortened) prologue (ed.: PL 176. (in the range of) 951–70D; ed. K. Müller, in Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 123 (Bonn, 1913) (in the range of) 3–25).

3. (fols 47ra–48ra)
John Pecham, Hymn (ed.: AH 31. 105; 50. 395 (the first two stanzas only).

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -um tenet sine
Form: codex
Support: Parchment; (fol. 21) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes). (fol. 38) Bookmark.
ii + 48 + ii leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c. 162–68 × 126–31 mm.
Foliation: i, ii, 1–50, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

i–iv 12 (fols 1–48). Quire signatures starting with ‘8us’ (seven quires are missing at the beginning of the book).

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 30 lines per page. Ruled space c.131–34 × 90–93 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis by a single hand. Item 3 added in a contemporary hand. Several marginalia.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Limp parchment case binding for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639

History

Origin: 14th century, middle ; Germany (Mainz Charterhouse?)

Provenance and Acquisition

The volume was originally larger, wanting seven quires (presumably all sexternios) at the beginning.

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper right- hand margin of fol. 48r: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

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

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, col. 166
Quarto Catalogue, p. 550
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 34

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. 580–585

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-05-19: Description revised to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.