MS. Laud Misc. 195
Summary Catalogue no.: 930
David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. Germany (Mainz Charterhouse?), s. xvin.
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. 635–642. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
lib. i, p. 1, lib. ii and iii, with prologue (ed.: Quaracchi (1899); Little 69 and 175, both this copy; Distelbrink 85; Bloomfield 4155, citing the present MS., and suppl.).
Note and quotations from the Bible and Socrates (attributed), s. xvin.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in ink, one column of c.25–32 lines without ruling. Ruled space c.140–49 × 85–101 mm.
Hand(s)
German bastarda, s. xvin, by a single hand. Item 2 added in a contemporary hand. Several marginalia.
Decoration
Flourished initials in purple (fols 59v and 89v) .
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 inscriptions at the lower margin of fol. i verso (upside-down): ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope Ma[?]gunciam.’, and, in a different hand, at the head of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est fratrum cartusiensium prope mogunciam’.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower centre of fol. 1r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
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Bibliography
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-04-23: Sebastian Dows-Miller. Removed empty handDesc.