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MS. Laud Misc. 32

Summary Catalogue no.: 657

Miscellanea; Germany, s. xiii2

Contents

Language(s): Latin

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 225–236. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols. 1r-2v)

Blank, except for: ruling; (fol. 1r) a sermon; the page rubbed to near-invisibility.

1. (fols 3r–16v)
William of Tournai OP, De instructione puerorum,

with preface

Glorieux, Théol., 29a, citing the present MS.; Kaeppeli 1665, this copy. According to J. A. Corbett (1955) 7, William of Tournai’s manual has only survived in three manuscripts: Paris, BnF, Lat. 16435, Cambrai, BM, Ms. 931 (830), and this copy. Chapters 6–13 and most of 14 missing.

3. (fols. 23r–24v)
Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae (3. 34, excerpt)
4. (fols. 25r–49v)
Bernard of Clairvaux, De praecepto et dispensatione,

with preface

6. (fols. 62v–64r)
Collection of decreta
7. (fols. 64v–71r)
Liber de fide sacramenti altaris

An excerpt from Thomas Aquinas, Officium de corpore Christi. The same extract transmitted in Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cod. IX, fols. 203r–214r (s. xiv2/4) and Cod. XIV, fols. 122r–126r (s. xiii5–6/10).

8. (fols. 71v–73v)
Sermo de praelatis

Hauréau, Initia, 6. 107va, this copy only (anon., ‘De sacerdotibus’). The sermon on how a prelate should conduct himself includes an exposition of the six wings of Seraphim.

9. (fols. 73v–74r)
Sermo de Ascensione Domini
Incipit: Qui descendit ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes celos ut adimpleret omnia. eph. iiij. [10] Dominus enim ascendit ut spiritum sanctum mitteret. dicit. Si enim non abiero. paraclitus non ueniet ad vos. [Io 16:7] Sed bone ihesu
Explicit: cum debeat esse discretior et fortior quam filia
10. (fols. 74r–75v)
Six short Exempla
(fol. 74r-v)
Rubric: De sagittis quibus adam a deo percussus est
Incipit: Percussus est adam virga. id est septem sagittis
(fol. 74v)
Rubric: De amore uero. et amore canis. mulieris fatue. et uerme.
Incipit: Amor debet esse purus non spe commodi temporalis
(fols. 74v-75r)
Rubric: De feneratoribus dei. et dyaboli.
Incipit: Feneratores dei sunt qui pro deo omnia relinquerunt
(fol. 75r)
Rubric: De homine et bruto animali.
Incipit: Bruta animalia naturaliter mortem fugiunt et abhorrent
(fol. 75r)
Rubric: De dyabolo et hominibus existentibus in mortali pecato.
Incipit: Cum dyabolus faciat peius quam potest. queri potest quare peccatores
(fol. 75r-v)
Rubric: Quod divicie sunt mundi non hominis.
Incipit: Si Si[sic] duos ambulantes vnus canis sequitur cuius scit nescitur donec separentur
11. (fols. 76r–96v)
Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo Deo
13. (fols. 111v–123r)
Ars artium, quae est regimen animarum

Little 60, this copy (‘W. de Kirkham? Constitutiones’); Hauréau, Initia, 1. 298vb, this copy only; Bloomfield 1235 cites the present MS. (folio nos in part incorrect): except for the very beginning, the texts are, however, not identical. The same is true for the ‘Suffragium curatorum’ (Bloomfield 1234, and suppl.; Kaeppeli 2824; Sharpe, Handlist, 567 (Robert of Olomouc OCist, Summa confessionum)

14. (fol. 123r–v)
Theological excerpts and notes

The first note refers to I Tim 5:8 and John Cassian, Collationes, 2. 14. 5 & 6; three excerpts from Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia ad Guillelum S. Theodorici abbatem, 12. 28–29. The last two, which are also ascribed to Bernard of Clairvaux, not verifiable.

15. (fols. 124r–151r)
Regula S. Benedicti, with prologue
16. (fol. 151r–v)
Theological text
Rubric: De claudis, caecis et praelatis
Incipit: Ceci et claudi sedentes ad portam ciuitatis. viam que ducit ad sanctuarium. bene et recte uiatoribus et peregrinis ostendunt. Sed ipsi forte numquam eam uadunt
Explicit: qui edificant verbis. operibus destruentes. vnus edificans. et alter destruens.
(fols 151v–152r) followed by Auctoritates, from Gregory the Great, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Isaias, Bernard of Clairvaux, etc.
17. (fols. 152v–156r)
Five Quaestiones
(fol. 152v)
Incipit: Queritur an fratres possint absoluere de excommunicationibus que fiunt pro finitis et perditis rebus sine licentia sacerdotum
(fols. 152v-153r)
Incipit: Queritur de episcopis. quibus delegata est potestas absoluendi eos qui manus molentas iniecerunt in clericum
(fol. 153r-v)
Incipit: Queritur an dyaconi et inferiores ex delegacione possint absoluere. sicut et excommunicare
(fol. 153v)
Incipit: Item ⟨quaeritur⟩ numquid dignitas pblebanatus est in partibus gallicanis.
(fols. 153v-156r)
Incipit: Qveritur duo habentes communem mensuram in qua alii mensurabant.
(fols. 156r–158v)

blank, except for ruling and an excerpt from Sextus the Pythagorean, Sententiae, tr. Rufinus

Physical Description

(fol. 4r)
Secundo Folio: cum proximis
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 158 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.154–64 × 102–17 mm.
Foliation: 1-158

Layout

Ruling in lead point, one column of mostly 22 lines, above top line. Ruled space c.116–24 × 75–88 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis by a single hand

Decoration

None

Binding

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

History

Origin: s. xiii2 ; Germany (Judging by the script.)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-century ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 3r; an early 15th-century list of contents at the upper half fol. 2v, inserted by a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse, and corrected in a contemporary, Carthusian hand. Identifiable as C XIX T in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 2v.

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

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. 70
Quarto Catalogue, col. 71
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 29

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. 225–236

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-09: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.