MS. Laud Misc. 232
Summary Catalogue no.: 1096
Hugh of St-Victor, Bernard of Clairvaux, etc.; England (Reading), 12th century, middle
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ends at VII.vi ('non pertinere ad matrimoniam in qua docetur non fuisse commixtio sexuum', cf. PL 176.159D).
(fragment, ending only, cf. PL 182.917-8)
Followed by a short extract headed 'Augustinus': 'Cotidie eucharistie ... domini separari' (Augustine, Ep. 54.3.4); 'Iuramentum filii aut filie nesciente patre ... irrita sunt'.
Ed. J. Leclercq, ‘Nouvelle reponse de l’ancien monachisme aux critiques des cisterciens’, Revue Bénédictine 67 (1957), 77-93; the only copy.
16th-century table of contents. Fols. 185r-7v are blank.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Protogothic by several hands.
Decoration
Arabesque initials.
Diagrams (fols. 77v, 78v)
Binding
Standard binding of the Laudian collection, rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading Abbey: Reading origin and provenance identified by Michael Gullick, ‘Reflections and Observations on Romanesque Manuscripts and Charters from Reading Abbey’, Reading Medieval Studies 42 (2016), 1–24 at 9-10: origin, on grounds of initials (damaged, fols. 1r, 71r), in a style associated with Reading, and the occurrence of a scribe in another Reading manuscript (MS. Rawl. A. 416); provenance, because the volume is apparently identifiable in the 12th-century booklist, albeit with items in a different order (CBMLC B75.171: 'secunda pars sacramentorum Hugonis et illa summa que sic incipit, De fide et spe, in uno uolumine, ubi est etiam tractatus magistri Hugonis de incorrupta uirginitate Marie et tractatus Bernardi abbatis de deo et apologeticum eiusdem ad Willelmum abbatem').
William Laud, 1638
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-09: Revised to incorporate Reading Abbey origin/provenance, full itemization of contents and additional physical description.