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MS. Laud Misc. 293

Summary Catalogue no.: 1138

Peter Lombard, Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles, etc.; 13th century, first half

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. (fols. fols. 1v–106r, 111v–216r; fols. 111r, 216v blank)
Peter Lombard, Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles
Incipit: Principia rerum requirenda
Incipit: Paulus seruus... Huc usque enim pendet littera
Explicit: alia dei munera sit cum omnibus uobis amen

Written in two parts: Rom-Cor. (fols. 1v-106r) and Gal.-Hebr. (fols. 111v-216r)

2. (fols. 106v–107r)
Text on the Cathar heresy
Incipit: Illa que de catharis dubia fama feruntur. si uera sunt non noua uel simplex aut solitaria heresis. sed ex multis et antiquis heresibus renouata. et quodammodo conflata mihi uidetur
Explicit: qui male agit. odit lucem. sic et populus iste uulpis est demoliens uineam domini reus euangelio. reus ergo mortis
3. (fols. 107r–110r)
Edmund of Abingdon (?), Psalterium Mariae
Rubric: Incipit psalterium sancti Dei genitricis Marie
Incipit: Ave virgo lignum mite| que dedisti fructum vite| saluti fidelium

Pr. Analecta Hymnica 35, 137–152.

4. (fol. 110r)
Marian hymn
Incipit: O Maria mater pia, o benigna laude digna, plena dei lumine, me dignare te laudare uerbis dignis sanctis hymnis et spalmorum[sic] carmine
Explicit: iuncti simus et compacti paradisi ciuibus

Pr. Mone, Lateinische hymnen des mittelalters, II, 423–425, no. 606 (there with an additional stanza); cf. WIC 12749; Chevalier 13203

5. (fol. 110r–v)
Bernard of Morval, Mariale (prologue)
Incipit: O lumen verum quo lux est facta dierum. Lumen preclarum sapiencia lux animarum. Que requiem fessis tribuis
Explicit: Vt mecum uitam mereantur habere beatam. Amen.

Pr. Analecta Hymnica 50, 424–5.

6. (fol. 110r–v)
Epitaph of Hertwig
Incipit: Utilis ecclesie sancte famulando marie

Pr. Palmer, Zisterzienser, p. 18.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 216 + i leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 352 × 250 mm.
Dimensions (written): 272 × 182 mm.

Decoration

Red silhouette initials (Rom.-Cor.); red silhouette initials with foliate motifs in red, green and yellow (Gal.-Hebr.).

Binding

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

History

Origin: 13th century, first half

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey, ex libris: Liber beate Marie virginis in Eberbach (fol. 1r)

Identifiable as e 8 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen and Matthew Holford (January 2020) from the following sources (with additional description of the contents and of ex libris on fol. 1r):
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 18, 217, 270, 293 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, col. 235
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 49

Digital Images

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Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-01-02: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.