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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.

1. (fols 1r–151r)
David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione,

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.).

1.1. (fols 1r–16r)
David of Augsburg, Formula nouitiorum (= lib. i, p. 1 of De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione) with prologue and additions (fol. 16r, 1. 16-17r) (ed.: Quaracchi (1899) 1–36; Mohan 100*, citing the present MS.; Bloomfield, 4155).
1.2. (fols 17r–148r)
David of Augsburg, [De profectu religiosorum] (= lib. ii and iii of De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione) with prologue (fol. 147v, 1.5) and addition (fols 58v, l. 22–59r) (ed.: Quaracchi (1899) 63–378; Little 122; Distelbrink 100; Bloomfield 855 and 2655 (lib. ii); 4283 (lib. iii), and suppl.).
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 151v)

Note and quotations from the Bible and Socrates (attributed), s. xvin.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: indicit si
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fols 52 and 82) remnants of medieval repairs (stitching holes).
151 + i (17th cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.184–92 × 133–40 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–152, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. A 15th-cent. foliation in roman numerals in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos of fols 1r–148r, in a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Collation

i 1+12 | ii–xi 12 (fols 13–132) | xii 10 (fols 133–142) | xiii 10-1

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

Origin: Early 15th century; Germany (Mainz Charterhouse?)

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

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. 170
Quarto Catalogue, col. 171
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 39

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. 635–642

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-04-23: Sebastian Dows-Miller. Removed empty handDesc.