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MS. Laud Misc. 298

Summary Catalogue no.: 1027

Johannes de Tambaco, De consolatione theologiae; Germany (Eberbach?), 15th century, first quarter

Contents

(fols. 1r–191v)
Johannes de Tambaco, De consolatione theologiae
Rubric: Incipit prologus in librum de consolatione theologie fratris Johannis de Tambaco, ordinis Predicatorum, provincie Theutonie, sacre theologie professoris.
Incipit: (prologue) Quoniam autem secundum hoc ipse apostolus nobis insinuat
Incipit: (preface) Cum humanum genus post lapsum primorum parentum
Rubric: Capitulum primum continens consolaciones super carencia mundane felicitatis et super infelicitate et miseriis.
Incipit: Primo itaque principaliter quatuor tristibus predicte domine
Explicit: nives si flumen effugeris, impetet te gladius ||

With prologue, preface, and table; incomplete, ends at XV.5.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 191 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 342 × 240 mm.
Dimensions (written): 255 × 170 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by the same scribe as MS. Laud Misc. 462.

Decoration

Red-blue decorated initials on split red-blue ground, with fleuronée decoration; the same hand as London, British Library, Arundel MS 85.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 15th century, first quarter ; German, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Probably written in the Eberbach scriptorium.

Probably identifiable as X 1 in the Eberbach catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, by 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, sent 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2018 and October 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 255, 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. 237
Quarto Catalogue, p. 556
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 44

Digital Images

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Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-11-01: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.