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.
With prologue (ed.: PL 182. 727A–808A; SBO 3 (1963) 393–493; Leclercq, Recueil, 3. 38; Bloomfield 5830). No chapter division.
With preface (ed.: PL 182. 973A–1000B; SBO 3 (1963) 119–54).
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.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.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
Collation
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
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
Digital Images
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Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-06-16: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.