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MS. Laud Misc. 313

Summary Catalogue no.: 1381

Thomas Gallus, Expositio iii super Cantica canticorum; A) (fols 2–3) Germany (?), s. xiiiin; B) (fols 4–7) Mainz Charterhouse, s. xvin; C) (fols 8–38) Germany, Mainz Charterhouse (?), s. xivmed.

Physical Description

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 789–796. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 2–3) || B) (fols 4–7) || C) (fols 8–38)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii (17th-cent.) + 38 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i, 1–39, in modern (20th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A & B) i 4(+4)-2; ii 12-1 | iii 14-1 | iv 8-1. the ‘first’ quire consists of part A (fols 2 & 3), originally a binion, the third and fourth leaf excised. An early 15th-cent. binion (= part B, fols 4–7) was bound into the centre of the quire. A–C) 15th-cent. quire signatures inserted in typical Charterhouse ink.

Binding

Limp parchment case binding for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: The present manuscript already consisted of these three parts (in this order) when at the Mainz Charterhouse, in the 15th century, as evidenced by the quire signatures. Twelve quires are lost at the beginning and probably one or more missing at the end, after fol. 38 (the last verso is signed; fol. 38r, l. 28–v, however, is blank).

William Laud, 1573–1645: The present book consists of seven fascicles, which were likely put together only in the course of the Laudian binding. Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 2r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 313 – Part A (fols 2–3)

Contents

1. (fols 2r–3v)
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae

Excerpts, (in the range of) 7.12.7–16 & 6.19.19–73 (ed.: PL 82. 291A–D, 253C–58D; ed. W. M. Lindsay, OCT (1985, the latest (5th) repr. of the 1st ed. 1911) vol. 1; – Stegmüller, RB, 5164, and suppl.; Díaz 122; CPL 1186). Text imperfect.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: peccatorum remissio (fol. 3r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.184–87 × 137–41 mm.

Collation

A & B) i 4(+4)-2. The ‘first’ quire consists of part A (fols 2 & 3), originally a binion, the third and fourth leaf excised.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, one column of 26 lines. Ruled space c.140 × 85–90 mm.

Hand(s)

German (?) protogothic script, s. xiiiin, by a single hand, above top line.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: Early 14th century ; Germany(?).

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: 15th-cent. quire signatures inserted at the Charterhouse.

MS. Laud Misc. 313 – Part B (fols 4–7)

Contents

2. (fols 4r–7v)
Thomas Gallus, Commentary on the Song of Songs

Third commentary (ed. J. Barbet, Thomas Gallus, Commentaires du Cantique des cantiques, Textes philosophiques du moyen âge 14 (Paris, 1967) 107–232, the present MS. collated, siglum ‘O’, see pp. 23f.; Glorieux, Rép., 116f, citing the present MS.; Stegmüller, RB, 8201, this copy (incorrect folio no.), and suppl.).

Part B (fols 4–7) was written at the Mainz Charterhouse in the 15th century to supplement the missing part of the prologue of the original French 14th-cent. copy of Thomas Gallus’ third commentary on the Song of Songs (part C).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: mistice theologie (fol. 5r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.184–86 × 122–40 mm.

Collation

A & B) i 4(+4)-2. An early 15th-cent. binion (= part B, fols 4–7) was bound into the centre of the quire to supplement text missing from the 14th-cent. commentary (part C).

Layout

Ruling in lead point, one column of 33–37 unruled lines. Ruled space c.146–51 × 93–99 mm.

Hand(s)

Textualis, s. xvin, in a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse. Marginalia likley in the text hand.

Decoration

Initial in red, with split body and flourished decoration (fol. 4r).

History

Origin: Early 15th century ; Germany, Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael, as supplement to part C.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 4r (in the same hand as the inscription on C) fol. 38r): ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope magunciam’. Identifiable as A XIIII T in cat. ii.

MS. Laud Misc. 313 – Part C (fols 8–38)

Contents

2. (fols 8r–38r)
Thomas Gallus, Commentary on the Song of Songs

The original part of item 2 (see above).

Abbreviated Bible quotation on paper slip inserted between fols 8 & 9, fol. 8*; written in a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 24) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes). Paper slip (fol. 8*); stub between fols 16 & 17.
Dimensions (leaf): c.186–89 × 130–37 mm.

Collation

ii 12-1 | iii 14-1 | iv 8-1. A–C) 15th-cent. quire signatures.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, one column of 41 lines. Ruled space c.155–59 × 102–05 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xivmed, by a single hand, similar to the scribe of MS. Laud Misc 493. Annotations and corrections in text hand and several hands from the Charterhouse, s. xivex or xv, including the hand responsible for part B.

History

Origin: Mid 14th century ; Germany, probably Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael, to judge from script.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 38r (in the same hand as the inscription on B) fol. 4r): ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope magunciam’.

Additional Information

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 245
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 59

Digital Images

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Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 789–796

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-08-11: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.