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MS. Laud Misc. 208

Summary Catalogue no.: 820

Theological miscellany. Mainz Charterhouse, A) (fols 1–38c, 127) s. xiv2; B) (fols 39–126) s. xivex.

Physical Description

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 694–707. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–38c, 127) || B) (fols 39–126)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 129 leaves
Foliation: 1–127, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A) i 1+8 | ii–iv 8 (fols 10–33) | v 8-1; B) vi 12-1 | vii 4 (fols 50– 53) | viii 6+1 | ix 10-1 | x 10-2 | xi 10-1 | xii & xiii 10 | xiv 8 | xv 8-5; B & A) xvi (10-1)+1. Fol. 127 originally glued to the gutter of fol. 126v, now partially loose; it belongs to part A.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: The present manuscript consists of two fascicles, both of which were once in the possession of the Mainz Charterhouse. Bound together since the late 1630s, as evidenced by the late 14th/early 15th-cent. list of contents on fol. 1v, inserted at the Mainz Charterhouse.

William Laud, 1573–1645: The present book consists of seven fascicles, which were likely put together only in the course of the Laudian binding. Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 2r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 208 – Part A (fols 1–38c; 127)

Contents

1. (fols 2ra–6rb)
Paulus Hungarus, Summa de poenitentia

With prologue and list of chapters. Text abbreviated, imperfect (pr.: H. Weisweiler, ‘Handschriftliches zur Summa de penitentia des Magister Paulus von Sankt Nikolaus’, Scholastik 5 (1930) 248–60, citing the present MS. at p. 251; Glorieux, Rép., no. 227f (François Caraccioli?); Michaud-Quantin, Sommes, 24–26 & 51, n. 19; Bloomfield 4866; 4919, citing the present MS., and suppl.; 6423, and suppl.; Kaeppeli 3184; Kuttner, Repertorium, 412; cf. Little 202).

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 6rb–25va)
Sermons

Six sermons from Iacobus de Voragine’s Mariale sive Laudes beatae Mariae virginis, by Bertholdus de Ratisbona and others (pr. Hamburg, 1491 (Hain 9940; Goff J185), etc.; – Stegmüller, RB, 3999; Schneyer, Beobachtungen, 73; Schneyer 3. 273f., nos 678–682 & 281, no. 794; Kaeppeli 2158); itemized in the printed catalogue.

Language(s): Latin
3. (fols. 26r–28r)
Alanus ab Insula, De sex alis cherubim (ed.: PL 210. 273A–80C; – Hauréau, Notices et extraits, 3. 275 & 5. 253–56; SBonO 10 (1902) 23f., no. 34; Little 173; Glorieux, Rép., 305ct; Stegmüller, RB, 949, and suppl.; Glorieux, Arts, 12p; Distelbrink 111; Mohan 293*; Bloomfield 4054, 4055, and suppl.; cf. 357, and suppl.).

Some literature identifies the work transmitted in MSS Laud Misc. 298, 345 & 493 as the version of De sex alis cherubim by Clement of Llanthony (unpr.; – Stegmüller, RB, 1980, citing, among others, MSS Laud Misc. 493 (‘Laud. G 40’) & Laud Misc. 345 (‘Laud. H 10’), and suppl.; Bloomfield and suppl., loc. cit.; Lapidge & Sharpe, Bibliography, 44; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 86f. (MSS Laud Misc. 345, 493 and this copy, at p. 87).

Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 28ra–30ra)
Sermons and tractates

Works by Lucas de Bitonto and others; itemized in the printed catalogue.

Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 30ra–31vb)
Gerardus Leodiensis (attrib.), De doctrina cordis

Short version, imperfect (ed.: G. Hendrix, Hugo de Sancto Caro. Traktaat De doctrina cordis (Leuven, 1995); Little 172 (Albert the Great, Sermon); A. Wilmart, ‘Gérard de Liège: un traité inédit de l’amour de Dieu’, RAM 12 (1931) 349–430, a list of MSS at pp. 355ff., n. 13; G. Hendrix, ‘Handschriften en in handschrift bewaarde vertalingen van het aan Gerard van Luik toegeschreven traktaat De doctrina cordis’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 51 (1977) 146–68, MSS at pp. 151–64, this copy at p. 159 (‘O3’)).

Language(s): Latin
6. (fols 31vb–32va)
Sermo de dedicatione
Language(s): Latin
7. (fols 32vb–36rb)
Passus interdicti [ecclesiastici]

With prologue; present text, composed in Mainz, 1316, is in part identical with Hermannus de Minda’s Tractatus de interdicto (partly edited by E. Ritzinger & H. C. Scheeben, ‘Beiträge zur Geschichte der Teutonia in der zweiten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts’, in Archiv der deutschen Dominikaner 3, ed. L. Siemer (Cologne, 1941) 11–95, at pp. 41–46; Kaeppeli 1878).

Language(s): Latin
8. (fols 36rb–38ara)
Iohannes Andreae, Nouellae in Decretales

From bk. iv, Summa de sponsalibus et matrimoniis, parts i & ii. Imperfect (pr.: GW 1742–57; Schulte, GQ, 2. 214–16; Hauréau, Initia, 1. 186rb).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: quam locutione (fol. 3ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fols 26, 37 & 38c) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
Dimensions (leaf): c.211–17 × 155–58 mm.

Collation

i 1+8 | ii–iv 8 | v 8-1; B & A) xvi (10-1)+1. The counterpart of fol. 34 lacking, no loss of text; the missing conjoint leaf appears to be fol. 127, which was erroneously added to the end of part B. This error likely dates from the Laudian rebinding.

Layout

Hand A1) Ruling (fols 2ra–25va) in ink, two columns of c.36 lines. Ruled space c.149–64 × 113–116 mm.

Hand A2) Ruling (fols 26ra–38ara) in ink, two columns of c.39–45 lines. Ruled space c.161–72 × 122–128 mm.

Hand(s)

Textualis, s. xiv2, by two hands, very likely from the Mainz Charterhouse: A1) (fols 2ra–25va); A2) (fols 26ra–38ara). Several corrections and marginalia; further punctuation added in a hand s. xivex from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; Germany, likely Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael, as evidenced by script and style.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 2r: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope Magunciam’. Fascicle A was originally larger, see the late 14th/early 15th-cent. list of contents on fol. 1v, inserted at the Mainz Charterhouse (see complete list in printed catalogue).

MS. Laud Misc. 208 – Part B (fols 39–126)

Contents

9.
Carthusian statutes

Statuta Antiqua Ordinis Carthusiensis (pr.: Basel, 1510). A list of chapters at the end of part i (fol. 76rb) and at the beginning of parts ii (fol. 78r) & iii (fol. 115r, l. 28); part ii: the numbering in both list and text is erroneous and does not match.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: feriali kyrieleison (fol. 40ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; occasional remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes), (fols 112 & 120) rough stitching preserved, in natural-coloured thread.
Dimensions (leaf): c.195–215 × 148–60 mm.

Collation

vi 12-1 | vii 4 | viii 6+1 | ix 10-1 | x 10-2 | xi 10-1 | xii & xiii 10 | xiv 8 | xv 8-5; B & A) xvi (10-1)+1 (fol. 127 belongs to part A, see above).

Layout

Ruling (fols 39ra–77v) in ink, two columns of c.33–44 lines. Ruled space c.167–75 × 118–31 mm.

Ruling (fols 78r–126vb) in ink or lead point, one column of 34–42 lines. Ruled space c.156–76 × 117–27 mm.

Hand(s)

Textualis with features of bastarda, or early bastarda, s. xivex, by several hands, from the Mainz Charterhouse. Occasional corrections and marginal annotations in the text hands and in other hands from the Charterhouse, s. xivex–xivin, sometimes also writing in German (e.g. fol. 119r). One of these contemporary annotating hands wrote in the upper margin of fol. 45r: ‘Nota. Anno domini Moccco. lxvjo. statutum est quod festum beati benedicti peragitur. cum candelis sollempniter’.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: Late 14th century ; Germany, Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael, to judge from script and style.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: (fol. 39r) a hand of s. xivex/xvin added to the header: ‘Incipiunt capitula ... Consuetudinem [recte: consuetudinum] ordinis Carthusiensis ‘prope mogunciam’’; a hand of s. xivex inserted at the head of 126v: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam.’

Additional Information

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. 180
Quarto Catalogue, col. 181
Quarto Catalogue, p. 551
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 35

Digital Images

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 694–707
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 237

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-08-04: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.