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MS. Laud Misc. 189

Summary Catalogue no.: 482

Thomas Aquinas, Expositio in duo praecepta caritatis et decem legis praecepta 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. 594–597. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1ra–9rb)
Thomas Aquinas, Collationes de decem praeceptis

Most recently edited in J.-P. Torrell, Recherches Thomasiennes. Études revues et augmentées, Bibliothèque Thomiste 52 (Paris, 2000) 47–117, at pp. 65–117, this copy siglum ‘O18’

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -ticiam. nullus enim
Form: codex
Support: Parchment; (fol. 5) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
ii + 10 + ii leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c. 168–72 × 127–30 mm.
Foliation: i–ii, 1–12, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

one gathering of ten (fols 1–10).

Layout

Ruling in lead point; hand 1) two columns of 31–38 unruled lines. Ruled space c.131– 38 × 100–07 mm.

Hand 2) two columns of 44–54 unruled lines.

Hand(s)

German textualis cursiva, by two hands. Occasional marginalia.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Sewing slits in pairs, for supports worked with two slits from a previous binding. Manuscript appears to have been rebound as a small-format single-quire booklet in the 15th or 16th centuries.

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

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

The present booklet originally formed part of a larger volume, see the inserted list of contents (fol. 10v).

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 9r: ‘Iste liber pertinet ad cartusienses prope mogunciam’, and, in a different hand, at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 10v: ‘Liber carthusiensium 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, cols. 167–8
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 24

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. 594–597

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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