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MS. Laud Misc. 224

Summary Catalogue no.: 1288

Ps.-Augustine; Ps.-Albertus Magnus; Petrus Comestor. Germany, s. xivin.

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. 728–734. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fol. 1ra–rb)
Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences

Excerpts (ed.: STO 1 (1989) 546 and 556; Stegmüller, RS, 846; Glorieux, Rép., 14f).

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 1va–vb)
Ps.-Augustine, De assumptione beatae Mariae

Abridged version (ed.: PL 40. 1143–48; Römer ii/1. 33 (no. 28); ii/2. 275; CPPM 2. 161; CMA Gallia 2. 492f.).

Language(s): Latin
3. (fols 2ra–71ra)
Ps.-Albertus Magnus, De laudibus Mariae

With prologue (ed.: AMO 37 (1898) 1–321; Little 40; Glorieux, Rép., 6a; Grabmann, Geistesleben, 2. 355; Stegmüller, RB, 1061, and suppl., this copy).

Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 71ra)
Petrus Comestor, De excellentia BMV

Verse in praise of Virgin Mary (ed.: PL 198. 1045C; AH 32. 160, ll. 1– 9).

Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 71ra–v)

Excerpts from Thomas Aquinas, Bernard of Clairvaux, Isidore of Seville, Gregory the Great, Augustine, and others.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -cipere et angelorum
Form: codex
Support: parchment; two binding strips from a document dating from 1421, written in bastarda.
i (17th cent.) + 71 + i (17th cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.230–40 × 165–70 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–72, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i 1+(4-1) | ii 10-2 | iii 12 | iv 12+1 | v– vii 10 | viii 4

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of c.37–52 lines. Ruled space c.173–80 × 122–30 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis cursiva, s. xivin, by several hands. Marginalia in contemporary hands and hands of s. xivex and s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Brown reversed calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639

History

Origin: Early 14th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: Ex-libris inscriptions, dated c.1395-99, at the head of fol. 4r: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope Magunciam’, fol. 44r: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium monasterii sancti michaelis prope magunciam sub Anno domini mo ccco xc[v?; the rest cropped]’, and fol. 70v: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope magunciam’; all three inscriptions in the same hand.

William Laud, 1573–1645: 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.

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. 193
Quarto Catalogue, p. 553
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 55

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. 728–734

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-09: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.