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MS. Laud Misc. 319

Summary Catalogue no.: 1196

Siboto, Sermones de Miserere; Richard the Premonstratensian, De canone missae; Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis. Germany; A) (fols. 2-42) s. xiii2 || B) (fols. 43-102) s. xiv1

Physical Description

Composite: A) (fols. 2-42) || B) (fols. 43-102)
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 899–906. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent.) + 101 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: 1–103, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A) i–iv 8 | v 8+1; B) vi–x 12

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: Composed of two fascicles of different dates, MS. Laud Misc. 319 is likely to have already existed in its current make-up when in the possession of the Mainz Charterhouse, at the latest in the late 14th century.

William Laud, 1573–1645: 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. 319 – Part A (fols. 2-42)

Contents

1. (fols 2ra–38rb)
Siboto, Sermones super Psalmum 'Miserere' (Ps. 50)

With tabula (fols. 36va-38rb), listing themes of sermons and subchapters (Schneyer 5. 426f., nos 326–345; Stegmüller, RB, 7628, and suppl.; Schneyer, Wegweiser 369/70; Kaeppeli 3576).

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 38rc–42vb)
Richard the Premonstratensian, De canone missae,

1-10, text in part different from the edition (PL 177. 455C–470A; Hauréau, Initia, 3. 171vb–172vb, this copy at fol. 172va).

(fol. 42vb) Antiphon, followed by name Gerhardus, bishop of Nowhere ('gerhardus episcopus nullatensis').
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: in meditatione (fol. 3ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.176–82 × 125–30 mm.

Collation

i–iv 8 | v 8+1

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 39 lines (item 1) and 39-41 lines (item 2). Ruled space c.140–54 × 99–106 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv1, by two different hands: (item 1) fols 2ra–38rb; (item 2) fols 38rc–42vb. Antiphon inserted on fol. 42vb. Several marginalia in a contemprary hand and s. xv hand of Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initial in red (fol. 2ra) added by hand from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xivex/xv.

Unfilled spaces for initials and rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, first half; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the head of fol. 2r: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Montis sancti Mychahelis prope Mogunciam ordinis Carthusiensis’. Identifiable with K XV T in cat. ii.

MS. Laud Misc. 319 – Part B (fols. 43-102)

Contents

3. (fols 43ra–102rb)
Bonaventure, Breuiloquium pauperis seu Compendium sacrae Scripturae

With prologue (fol. 43ra) and table of chapters (fol. 47rb, l. 29). Chapter divisions occasionally vary from edition (pr.: GW 4644, 4646–48; 4650–55; 4661; ed.: Little 97; Glorieux, Rép., 305k; Stegmüller, RS, 117; Distelbrink 1; Mohan 152*f.; Bloomfield 2149, and suppl.).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: iiiior. facierum (fol. 44ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; bookmarks made of plain thread sewn into the outer margins, to indicate the beginning of parts 6 and 7 and the end of the item.
Dimensions (leaf): c.177–80 × 119–25 mm.

Collation

vi–x 12

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of 36 lines. Ruled space c.133–36 × 82–85 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiii2, by a single hand. Several marginalia in hands of s. xiv; (fol. 47r, ll. 25–30) text inserted, presumably over erasure; a correcting hand of s. xv (fol. 47ra-rb).

Decoration

Flourished initial in blue and red (fol. 43ra).

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication by the scribe and in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Drawings in lead point in the margins, mostly leaves, occasionally initials (fols 52v, 61r, 62v, 63v, 64r and 71r); Christ crucified, with halo (fol. 62v).

History

Origin: 13th century, second half; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the lower centre of fol. 43r: ‘Liber carthusiensium prope mogunciam’ (boxed in), and at the lower margin of fol. 102v: ‘Fratrum Cartusiensium prope mogunciam.’, each in a different hand.

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. 248
Quarto Catalogue, col. 249
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 51

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 899–906

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-30: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.