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MS. Laud Misc. 227

Summary Catalogue no.: 1360

Bernard of Clairvaux; Willelmus Peraldus. Germany, s. xiv2/4.

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. 736–743. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 2r–39v)
Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione

With prologue (ed.: PL 182. 727A–808A; SBO 3 (1963) 393–493; Leclercq, Recueil, 3. 38; Bloomfield 5830). No chapter division.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 39v–53r)
Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo Deo

With preface (ed.: PL 182. 973A–1000B; SBO 3 (1963) 119–54).

Language(s): Latin
3. (fols 53r–69v)
Bernard of Clairvaux, Homiliae quattuor super Missus est,

with preface (ed.: PL 183. 55C–88A; SBO 4 (1966) 13–58; Stegmüller RB, 1726; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 457; Schneyer 1. 442. 8–12).

(fol. 69v, l. 29) Note on main text in a Carthusian hand from Mainz, s. xv.
Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 70r–214r)
Willelmus Peraldus, De eruditione religiosorum

With prologue (pr. Paris, 1512 and 1622; Louvain, 1575, etc.; Glorieux, Rép., 106f; Kaeppeli 1625, citing the present MS.; Bloomfield 1939 and 4610).

(fol. 72r) list of books (‘Materie librorum’), parts, and chapters, the latter numbered.
Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 214v–217v)

Soliloquium, divided into five sections: the things that lead to Christ’s love, and to contempt for the world; a note on doomsday, infernal penalties, and the joy of paradise.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: te ipsum
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes) and beginning of major and minor textual units indicated by bookmarks: red-coloured leather tabs, glued to both sides of the outer margins (fols 2, 7, 15, 88, 107 and 180).
Extent: iii (17th cent.) + 216 + i (17th cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.245–50 × 165–70 mm.
Foliation: i, ii, 1–218, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. Fol. 1 is a 17th-century endleaf. Medieval foliation at the upper right-hand corner of a recto, in arabic numerals, 1–141, inserted in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Collation

i–vi 10 | vii 8 | viii–xxi 10 | xxii 10-1

Layout

Ruling in ink, one column (except for fols 72va–75vb in two columns) of 32 lines. Ruled space c.176–82 × 104–09 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis formata, s. xiv2/4, in a single hand.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 139:

Flourished initials with good borders in red, blue and brown (fols 2r, 15r, 22r, 39v, 70r, 75v, 91ar, 107v, 145v and 180r).

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 14th-/15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the lower margin of fol. 2r: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope magunciam’, fol. 69v (in red): ‘liber carthusiensium prope mogunciam’, and, in the same hand, at the lower left-hand margin of fol. 217v: ‘codex carthusiensium moguncie’; the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 2r: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope magunciam’, and, in the same hand, at the head of fol. 217v: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope Magunciam’. Identifiable as C XIIII P in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1v.

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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 194
Quarto Catalogue, col. 195
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 58

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. 736–743

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-16: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.