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MS. Laud Misc. 190

Summary Catalogue no.: 1184

Theological composite manuscript. A) (fols 1–9) Germany, s. xiiiex/xivin; B) (fols 10–23) Germany, s. xiv2/4; C) (fols 24–35) France (?), s. xiiiex.

Physical Description

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 599–609. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–9) || B) (fols 10–23) || C) (fols 24–35)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii (17th-cent.) + 36 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i, ii, 1–37, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A) i 10; B) ii 10 | iii 4; C) iv 12.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: The present book consists of three fascicles, or rather booklets, A–C, which were possibly consolidated only in the course of the Laudian Binding, in the late 1630s. Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. 1r.

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

MS. Laud Misc. 190 – Part A) (fols 1–9)

Contents

1. (fols 1r–5v)
Ps.-Anselm of Canterbury, Dialogus beatae Mariae et Anselmi de passione Domini

With prologue (pr.: Cologne 1612, vol. 3, 199A–203C, etc.; ed.: PL 159. 271B–88B ; ed.: O. Schade (Halle, 1870) 5–13; Hartmann, LD, R21, with further literature, this copy (p. 374)).

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 5v–7vb)
Sermon

An anonymous sermon.

Language(s): Latin
(fol. 8ava–vb) index. Index entries suggest fascicle A contained more text, which preceded current items 1 & 2: of 39 entries in the list (mostly sermons), 37 are lost.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Interroga eos (fol. 2r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.156–67 × 120–30 mm.

Collation

i 10.

Layout

Ruling (hand A1) in lead point, one column; (hand A2) in brown crayon; (fols 6ra ff.) two columns of 34 lines. Ruled space c.128–30 × 93–95 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiiiex/xivin, two main hands: A1) (fols 1r–5v, l. 24) and A2) (fols 5v, l. 24–7vb). The index on fol. 8av in a contemporary and late 14th-cent. hand.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: Late 13th/Early 14th century; Germany . Originally part of a larger volume, see above, item 2.

Provenance

The inscription at the bottom margin of fol. 9v, which was inserted in the 14th century (after 1331), indicates that fascicle A was meant to be lent for life to Iohannes, cellarer at St James, and after his death, to Iohannes de Pingus, at the Charterhouse in Koblenz (Beatusberg): ‘domino Iohanni cellerario sancti Iacobi detur ad tempora vite sue post mortem suam detur domino Iohanni de Pingus cartusiensis in confluenciam.’ The Charterhouse at Koblenz (= Confluentia) existed since 1331.

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower part of fol. 8av: ‘Codex Carthusiensium prope Magunciam’.

MS. Laud Misc. 190 – Part B) (fols 10–23)

Contents

3. (fols 10ra–14vb)
Sibito, Sermones singuli (Schneyer 5. 400, 405 & 404; Kaeppeli 3575)
Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 14vb–18va)
Hugh of St.-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae

Abbreviation, with (shortened) prologue (ed.: PL 176. (in the range of) 951C–70D; ed. K. Müller, in Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 123 (Bonn, 1913) (in the range of) 3–25; Bloomfield 2980, and suppl.; Goy, Überlieferung Hugos, 277–329, citing the present MS. at p. 306, no. 183; CPPM 2. 3087). The same abbreviated version in MS. Laud Misc. 185, fols 38vb–47ra.

Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 18va–20vb)
Theological extracts (De diversis cogitationibus et meditationibus, De vita activa et contemplativa, De iubilo and De anima)

These four texts include excerpts from Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Seneca, Isidore of Seville, Bede, Augustine, etc. For full listing, see printed catalogue.

Language(s): Latin
6. (fols 20vb–21rb)
John Cassian, De institutionis coenobiorum

Excerpts from 4. 8, 9, 40, 41 & 43 (ed.: PL 49. (in the range of) 160B–202B; ed. J.-C. Guy, SChr 109 (1965) 130, 132, 180, 182 & 184; M. Petschenig & G. Kreuz, CSEL 17 (2004) 52f., 76 & 78; – CPPM 2. 3625; CPL 513; Bloomfield suppl. 1380b).

Language(s): Latin
7. (fol. 21rb–vb)
John Cassian, Collationes

Excerpt of 1. 1. 17 & 19–21 (ed.: PL 49. 506B–19A; ed. E. Pichery, SChr 42 (1955) 98–105; M. Petschenig & G. Kreuz, CSEL 13 (2004) 26–33; – CPL 512; Bloomfield suppl. 1126a).

Language(s): Latin
8. (fols 21vb–23v)
Sermon

Ascribed to Augustine.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: carnis quod (fol. 11ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment;(fol. 16) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
Dimensions (leaf): c.158–67 × 106–31 mm.

Collation

ii 10 | iii 4. (fols 19v & 23v) Quire signature at the bottom centre of the last versos, ‘20’ & ‘21’.

Layout

Ruling (fols 10ra–21vb) in brown crayon, one column of 38–41 lines; (fols 22r–v) in ink, one column of 35 or 37 lines; (fol. 23r) in ink and crayon, 39 lines; (fol. 23v) no ruling. Ruled space c.123–35 × 90–95 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by several hands; (fol. 18v) explicit in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter; Germany . Originally part of a larger volume: 19 quires missing, see Collation.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper margin of fol. 10r: ‘Iste liber est carthusiensium maguncie’, and in the lower inner margin of fol. 23v: ‘Codex carthusiensium moguncie’.

MS. Laud Misc. 190 – Part C) (fols 24–35)

Contents

9. (fols 24ra–35vb)
Aldobrandinus de Cavalcantibus, Sermones de sanctis (Schneyer 1. 171–73; Kaeppeli 123). Imperfect, at the beginning and end.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: pompis eius (fol. 25ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.165–69 × 130–32 mm.
Foliation: Contemporary foliation in a hand other than the scribe, at the top centre of rectos, arabic numerals starting with 25 on fol. 24r.

Collation

iv 12.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of 34 lines. Ruled space c.124–30 × 87 mm.

Hand(s)

French (?) textualis, s. xiiiex, by a single hand; the same hand is responsible for the foliation at the top centre (see above), and marginal nota-marks.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: Late 13th century; France (?)

Provenance

There is no evidence of ownership. It is, however, likely that part C was once in the possession of the Mainz Charterhouse.

Additional Information

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. 168
Quarto Catalogue, col. 169
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 51

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. 599–609

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-10-15: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.