MS. Laud Misc. 202
Summary Catalogue no.: 848
Theological works; Germany (possibly Mainz, Carthusian abbey), s. xiv1 (part A); France (Avignon), 1347 (part 2); Germany, s. xiv1 (part C)
Physical Description
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The present manuscript, made up of three originally independent volumes of different origins and dates, is an English product. Parts 1 & 2, however, may have been bound together already at the Mainz Charterhouse, in the 15th century.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1v.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
MS. Laud Misc. 202 – Part A (fols. 1–148b)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Mostly blank, except for a shelfmark on f. 1r and a 15th-century table of contents on fol. 1v, which only lists ten titles (numbered in red), that is current items 1–11; the list was later supplemented, by William Dell, Archbishop Laud’s secretary, who added current items 12–15 & 17.
Presented as 27 chapters; a version of the text also found in other manuscripts, comprising the short version followed by a compilation from Rolle including an extract from Anselm. See A. I. Doyle and Ralph Hanna, Hope Allen’s Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle : A Corrected List of Copies, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2019), 30–1.
Extract beg. 'Omnis actio laudabilis', with independent circulation; cf. Memorials of Anselm 269–70. Here as c. 25
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in lead point, often faded to invisibility, one column of hand A1) c. 36 or 37 and A2) c. 28–32 unruled lines. Ruled space (hand A1) c. 157–63 × 96–103 mm. Ruled space (hand A2) c. 155–67 × 88–93 mm.
Hand(s)
Written by two hands: A1) (fols. 2r–129r) a clearly-formed textualis, with features of bastarda
A2) (fols. 130r–148av) a large bastarda.
Decoration
To most items two- to seven-line initials in red, with fleuronnée in red and the ink of text, occasionally with elaborate borders
Red headers, colophons, rubrics, and paraphs mostly by the scribe.
History
Provenance
Written in Germany, s. xv1, as evidenced by script. The ink may localize the manuscript to the Mainz Carthusians.
Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael (?); see above. Identifiable as D XVIII S in cat. ii.
MS. Laud Misc. 202 – Part B (fols. 149–158)
Contents
See also Mainz, Stadtbibl., Hs I 228, fols 210r–217r.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in lead point, one column of c. 31–38 lines. Ruled space c. 168–75 × 108–10 mm.
Hand(s)
Bastarda, by two German hands: (fols. 149r–154v, including the colophon on fol. 158v) Iohannes Archfelt, and (fols. 155r–158v) dominus Richwinus, plebanus in Singlis (colophon on fol. 158v).
History
Provenance
Written in Avignon, 1347, by Iohannes Archfelt and Richwinus, plebanus in Singlis (a muncipality within the county of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis in Hesse, Germany), see the colophon on fol. 158v, inserted in the hand of Iohannes Archfelt on 9 July 1347, in Avignon, at the Curia Romana.
Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: there is no ex-libris inscription; one of the scribes, however, Iohannes Archfelt, is attested to have written and owned other Charterhouse copies (see above).
MS. Laud Misc. 202 – Part C (fols. 159–214)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
List of contents, in the hand of Martin Rifflinck.
Only part of the text, without prologue.
Followed by:
Begins on fol. 208vb, line 22. From fol. 209ra, line 8 onwards not identified.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in ink, two, (fols 160, 211r–212r: one) columns of c. 35–40 (fols 211r–212r: 26–31) lines. Ruled space c. 160–65 × 116–20 mm. Ruled space (fols. 211r–212r) c. 156–57 × 109 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xiv1, one main hand, C1 (fols. 160r–209r), and two additional hands, C2 (fols. 209v–210r) and C3 (fols. 211r–212r).
Additional hand C4 (fol. 212va–vb) writes a bastarda of s. xv1.
Decoration
Tree of virtues and vices (fols. 209v, 210r)
One- to six-line initials in red, either decorated, or simple.
Scribal red rubrics and numbering.
History
Provenance
Cistercian Abbey of Eberbach: the ex-libris inscription (lower margin of fol. 160r), written in the hand of Martin Rifflinck, abbot of Eberbach in 1498–1506: the book was part of the abbot’s library (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 188, & n. 49); likely not identical with Kat. e 35 (2) (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 271 & 289).
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-18: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.