MS. Laud Misc. 192
Summary Catalogue no.: 1044
Augustine, Ps.-Augustine. Germany, s. xi.
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. 627–633. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Excerpts from the Church Fathers and the Bible, s. xiii
Extracts from Fulgentius of Ruspe, Augustine, the Bible (Romans, Matthew, Philippians, Jeremiah, Proverbs, Judges, Chronicles, Wisdom, Hebrews, Sirach, Proverbs, Ezekiel, Job, Isaiah, Zacharias, Apocalypse), Jerome, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, John Chrysostom, Anastasius presbyter, Leo the Great, Basil, and others not identified.
Imperfect version, with preface (ed.: PL 45. 1843–50 and 51. 177A–86C; CPL 521).
2.28.42–29.43 (ed.: PL 34. 218– 20; ed. D. Weber, CSEL 91 (1998) 168–72, citing the present MS. at p. 37 and 66, siglum ‘l’).
No chapter division (ed.: PL 42. 51–64; CPL 315).
With prologue (ed.: PL 45. 1833–44 and 51. 155A–74C; CPL 520).
Abbreviated extracts in the range of 2. 5–3. 11 (in the range of ed.: PL 44. 155–98; CPL 342).
Excerpts (in the range of ed.: PL 32. 1035– 80; CPL 257).
Excerpt from a Missal, s. xiii. Imperfect; continued, in the same hand, in MS. Laud Misc. 312 (fol. 1r). Advent, and Annunciation.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in lead point, one column of 24 or 25 lines, above top line. Ruled space c.127–39 × 75–82 mm.
Hand(s)
German protogothic script, s. xi, by a single hand. Items 1 and 8 written in German textualis, s. xiii by a single hand.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 2r: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope maguntiam’, and, in a late 14th-cent. hand, at the head of fol. 4r: ‘Fratrum Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’. Identifiable as C V Qn in cat. ii.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1v. A 17th-cent. list of contents at the upper half of fol. 1v.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-06-04: Description revised to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.