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MS. Laud Misc. 218

Summary Catalogue no.: 849

Haimo de Bazochiis, Summa decretorum; Germany, 12th century

Contents

(fols. 1–46v)
Haimo de Bazochiis, Summa decretorum
Rubric: Haimonis Prologus in hoc libro de Summa Decretorum
Incipit: (prol.) Precepciones canonum siue prohibiciones que ab apostolicis viris Romanis
Incipit: (text) Sanctorum ac venerabilium Patrum nominibus ordine dispositis congruum duximus ante ipsos canones
Final rubric: Hic decretorum finis finisque laborum.

Extensive marginal theological notes and notes for sermons in a contemporary hand.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: (fol. 2r, list of popes) Clemens . Crisogonus
Secundo Folio: (fol. 3r) ⟨salu⟩tem principaliter
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 47 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185–190 × 125–130 mm.

Layout

Written above top line, in 2 columns of 27–30 lines.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 12th century ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse: almost certainly identifiable as the first part of N.XX.S in catalogue II (Mainz, SB, Hs I 576, fol. 178v, 'De summa decretorum haymonis, Summa Jo. An. super quarto decretalium', secundo folio 'Clemens Chrisogonus'); not in Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen (February 2020, rev. Jan. 2023) from the following sources (with additional physical description and description of notes):
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [place, contents, acquisition]
Lotte Kéry, Canonical collections of the early Middle Ages (ca. 400–1140): a bibliographical guide to the manuscripts and literature (Catholic University of America Press, 1999) p. 264. [date]

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-16: Matthew Holford: add Mainz provenance.