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MS. Laud Misc. 320

Summary Catalogue no.: 1198

Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Formula honestae vitae ad fratrem suum; William de Lanicea, Diaeta salutis and Distinctiones e tractatu ‘Diaeta salutis’. A) (fols 2–5) Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2/4; B) (fols 1, 6–136) France, s. xiv2.

Physical Description

Composite: A) (fols. 2-5) || B) (fols. 1, 6-136)
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 909–918. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 136 leaves
Foliation: 1–136, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil

Collation

A) i 2(+4); B) ii–xi 12 | xii 10. The bifolium 1/6, which belongs to fascicle B, forms the outermost bifolium of quire i.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: The present book consists of two parts, which were likely put together only in the course of the Laudian binding. Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1v; a 17th-cent. list of contents at the upper margin of fol. 1v.

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

MS. Laud Misc. 320 – Part A (fols 2–5)

Contents

1. (fols 2r–3v, l. 15)
Ps.-Bernard, Formula honestae vitae

The text in some parts different from the edition, the utile monitum missing at the end (ed.: PL 184. 1167C–70C; – Hauréau, Notices et extraits, 2. 344–46 and 6. 177; Hauréau, Initia, 4. 280rb; BGOC 18. 7518; Bloomfield 3897, and suppl.; CPPM 2. 3091).

(fols 3v, l. 15–5r) Four additional notes on silence (fol. 3v, l. 15), proper behaviour (fol. 4r), six masses (fol. 4r) and the psalms (fol. 5r, l. 4). The note on six masses is written in Westcentral German.
Language(s): Latin and German

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: nichilominus incessanter (fol. 3r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 2) the lower margin repaired with a parchment strip, before the ruling was applied.
Dimensions (leaf): c.167–70 × 113–16 mm.

Collation

i 2(+4)

Layout

Ruling in ink, one column of 34 or 35 lines. Ruled space c.138–41 × 93–95 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2/4, in a single Carthusian hand, likely from the Mainz Charterhouse; additional note (fol. 5r, l. 4) in a different, contemporary hand. Contemporary corrections and annotations.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Unfilled space for initial and paraphs (fol. 5r, l. 4).

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter; Germany, Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael (?)

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 5v: ‘Iste liber est Carthusiensium prope magunciam.’ Possibly identical with L IX P in cat. ii.

MS. Laud Misc. 320 – Part B (fols 1, 6–136)

Contents

2. (fols 6r–115v)
William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis

With prologue (fol. 7r) and appendix (= item 2.1) (pr. GW 4720–4735, this copy compared with GW 4732, etc.; ed.: Little 104; Glorieux, Rép., 305dd; Schneyer, Beobachtungen, 35; Distelbrink 124; Mohan 169*; Bloomfield 2301, and suppl.; B.-G. Guyot, ‘La “Dieta salutis” et Jean Rigaud’, AFH 82 (1989) 360–93, this copy at p. 381). (fol. 6ra) ‘Parva tabula’, added in a Carthusian hand, s. xv.

Binding error: fols 34/39 should precede fols 33/40, the right order of leaves being fols 31, 32, 34, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 39, 41, 42.

Language(s): Latin
2.1. (fols 115v–127r)
William de Lanicea, Themata (ed.: Little 3, this copy (anon.); Schneyer, Beobachtungen, 35, this copy; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 4; Schneyer 2. 472–75, nos 1–63, citing the present MS. at p. 475).
Language(s): Latin
2.2. (fol. 127va)

Magna tabula, for the Diaeta salutis (ed. see above).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: miratur. Iusti (fol. 9r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; with medieval repair, or remnants thereof; (fols 1, 13 and 110) stitching preserved, in natural-coloured thread. Remnants of former binding furniture: rust marks/holes (fols 1r, 6r and 135r-136v).
Dimensions (leaf): c.174–77 × 117–24 mm.
Foliation: (fols 7–136) 15th-cent. foliation, starting with 1, in the top right corner, mostly in arabic numerals.

Collation

ii–xi 12 | xii 10. The bifolium 1/6, which belongs to fascicle B, forms the outermost bifolium of quire i. Binding error: (quire iv) two bifolios (fols 33/40 and 34/39) out of place, see above.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, one column and (fols 127v–135v) four columns. Ruled space c.123–37 × 79–95 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis with cursive features, s. xiv2, by a single hand. The tabula and foliation, as well as chapter and diaeta numbers (item 2) in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse. Corrections and annotations mainly in one Charterhouse hand of s. xv.

Decoration

Flourished initial in red and blue (fol. 7r) and flourished initials in alternating red and blue in item 2.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; France.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. inscription at the upper margin of fol. 7r: ‘Fratrum Cartusiensium prope mogunciam et concessus anno [the rest erased]’, indicating that fascicle B was given to the Charterhouse. It was lent to ‘Conradus’ at some point, see the late 14th-cent. inscription near the centre of fol. 1v: ‘Notum sit omnibus hominibus uidentibus hunc librum quod pertinet ad domum sancti Michahelis fratrum Cartusiensium prope Maguncie accommodatum michi Conrado’.

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. 249
Quarto Catalogue, p. 556
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. 909–918

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-07-07: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.