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MS. Laud Misc. 238

Summary Catalogue no.: 1130

Conrad of Eberbach, Exordium magnum Cisteciense; etc.; Germany, 13th century, first quarter

Language(s): Latin

1. (fols. 1r–175rb)

Conrad of Eberbach, Exordium magnum Cisteciense

Fol. 1v, capitula; fol. 5r, verse prologue; fol. 7r, dist. 1; fol. 30r, dist. 2; fol. 52v, dist. 3; fol. 93v, dist. 4; fol. 120r, dist. 5; fol. 158r, dist. 6.

Fol. 175rb partly blank.

2. (fold. 175va–181vb)

Guerric of Igny, Sermones in nativitate sancti Johannis Baptistae 1–4

Schneyer II.251, nos. 41–4, PL 185.163–76.

3. (fols. 182ra–193vb)

Miracles of St. Nicholas

Rubric: (fols. 181vb) Miracula et uirtutes sancti nycholai

(fols. 182ra–186rb)

Rubric: De symulachro diane

Incipit: Ex multis ydolatiis que olim piata [sic for prefata] regio dedite fuerat, maximam clementie sue deuotionem erga nefandissime dyane symulachrum exhibere studuit

Explicit: unus deus equalis magestate equalis potestate per omnia secula seculorum amen

BHL 6113, (extract) as pr. Mombritius, Sanctuarium seu Vitae sanctorum (1910) II.301.22–305.52.

Fol. 186rb: BHL 6152

Fol. 186rb-va: BHL 6147

Fol. 186va-b: BHL 6135

Fols. 186vb-187ra: BHL 6137 (incipit and explicit vary)

Fol. 187ra-b: BHL 6138

Fol. 187rb: BHL 6139

Fol. 187rb-va: BHL 6140

Fol. 187va-b: BHL 6140b

Fols. 187vb-188ra: cf. BHL 6148

Fol. 188ra-b: BHL 6144

Fol. 188rb: BHL 6143

Fols. 188rb-189va: BHL 6163, 6164, 6165

Fols. 189va-190vb: BHL 6170a

Fols. 190vb-192rb: BHL 6174 (explicit differs)

Fols. 192rb-193rb: BHL 6172b

Fol. 193rb-va: BHL 6133

Fol. 193va-b (no rubric): BHL 6160

Fol. 193vb (no rubric): BHL 6161

4. (fols. 194ra–198vb)

4.1. (fol. 193vb)

‘De inuentione sancte crucis’

BHL 4169, 4169r

4.2. (fols. 197ra)

‘De exaltatione sancte crucis’

BHL 4178

(fols. 198vb–199avb)

Geoffrey Babion, Sermo 40 (ad moniales)

Rubric: In vigilia assumptionis. Sermo ad sanctimoniales.

Incipit: Omnis gloria eius filie regis abintus in fimbriis aureis circumamicta varietatibus. Adducentur regi uirgines post eam, proxime eius afferentur tibi ⟨Ps. 44.14–15⟩ In hoc versu prophetico, filie dilectissime, gloriam domine uestre describuntur, et meritum nostrum non siletur

Explicit: debeat profiteri. Michi||

Schneyer II.153. Imperfect at end due to excision of a leaf after fol. 199a.

(fol. 199b)

⟨Passio S. Blasii⟩ (fragment)

Incipit: ||Angelus autem domini, descendens ad beatum Blasium

Explicit: exuberant mirabilia dei, cui est honor […]

Imperfect at beginning due to excision of a leaf after fol. 199a. Apparently a version of BHL 1370.

Fol. 200 blank except for title (‘De inicio ordinis’, and rough later (15th century?) drawing of a young man.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + i + 200 + 1 + ii folios

Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 195 mm.

Dimensions (written): 214 × 143 mm.

Foliation: i-ii, iii, 1–198, 199a, 199b, 200, 201–2; 199b is a half leaf.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 107:

One fine initial retouched, many good initials.

Red-and-green foliate penwork initial on gold ground, fol. 7r.

Red initials with penwork decoration, the decoration sometimes in green and (fols. 175v-299b) blue.

Binding

Laudian binding.

History

Origin: 13th century, first quarter ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

‘| clariuallis’, fol. 199bv, probably an from a summary of contents.

Probably dentifiable as T7 or d27 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

Erased ex libris (c. 1600) of a Cistercian house, fol. 1r, ‘Liber Marie virginis in …’ (possibly Eberbach, cf. MS. Laud Misc. 292, fol. 1v).

Ex libris of the Cistercian nunnery of Aulhausen (Marienhausen), 17th century.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2019) by Matthew Holford, with additional description of content, from the following sources:

Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 84–6, 290 [contents, physical description, date, origin, provenance]

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [acquisition]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 202

Quarto Catalogue, col. 203

Quarto Catalogue, p. 553

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 48