A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

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.

1. (fols 2r–18v)

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.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 3v–10v)
Prosper of Aquitaine, Responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Vincentianarum

Imperfect version, with preface (ed.: PL 45. 1843–50 and 51. 177A–86C; CPL 521).

Language(s): Latin
3. (fols. 10v–12v)
Augustine, De Genesi contra Manichaeos,

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’).

Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 12v–25v)
Augustine, Aduersus Iudaeos

No chapter division (ed.: PL 42. 51–64; CPL 315).

Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 26r–41r)
Prosper of Aquitaine, Responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Gallorum calumniantium

With prologue (ed.: PL 45. 1833–44 and 51. 155A–74C; CPL 520).

Language(s): Latin
6. (fols 41r–51r)
Augustine, De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo parvulorum

Abbreviated extracts in the range of 2. 5–3. 11 (in the range of ed.: PL 44. 155–98; CPL 342).

Language(s): Latin
7. (fols 51r–62v)
Augustine, De quantitate animae

Excerpts (in the range of ed.: PL 32. 1035– 80; CPL 257).

Language(s): Latin
8. (fol. 62v)

Excerpt from a Missal, s. xiii. Imperfect; continued, in the same hand, in MS. Laud Misc. 312 (fol. 1r). Advent, and Annunciation.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: sub uno quoque
Form: codex
Support: parchment; slit-and tab marker (fol. 51r).
i (17th-cent.) + 61 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.178–81 × 103–09 mm.
Foliation: 1–63, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

i 10-3 | ii–iv 10- 2 | v–vii 8 | viii 8-2

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

Origin: 11th century ; Germany

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

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).

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. 627–633

Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-04: Description revised to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.