MS. Laud Misc. 324
Summary Catalogue no.: 1042
Theological Miscellany. Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2.
Contents
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 977–989. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Latin tr. by Angelus Clarenus, extracts with prologue (pr.: Venice, 1491 (Goff J309), etc.; Little 107).
Latin tr. by Angelus Clarenus (?) (Venice, 1506); excerpts (ed.: PG 86 (1). 811A–86A; Bloomfield 424; CPG 3. 7868).
(ed. A. van de Pasch, ‘Een tractaatje over de volmaaktheid (uit een Keuls Kruisherenhandschrift van de 15de eeuw)’, Clairlieu. Tijdschrift gewijd aan de Geschiedenis der Kruisheren 11 (Diest, 1953) 49–84, at pp. 56–69).
Excerpts from cap. 40, 41, 29, 30, 34, 36, 37 (ed.: PL 184. (in the range of) 538D–51B; – Bloomfield 1787 & 2294, and suppl.; Goy, Überlieferung Hugos, 494, no. 12, and n. 41; CPPM 2. 3089 & 3090 (Ps.-Augustine)
The text consists of various excerpts, from Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Gregory the Great; most parts are identical with Johannes de Caulibus, Meditationes vitae Christi, 45ff. (ed. M. Stallings-Taney, CCCM 153 (1997) 172, l. 28ff.; Bestul, Passion, 48–50; Kemper, Kreuzigung Christi, 88–107, with further literature); the remaining text passages are not identifiable.
Excerpts, in the range of 2. 1–3. 12 (ed.: Quaracchi (²1949) 6–31 (cap. 1–6); ed.: J. Klapper, Schriften Johanns von Neumarkt. Dritter Teil: Stachel der Liebe, Vom Mittelalter zur Reformation. Forschungen zur Geschichte der deutschen Bildung 6 (Berlin, 1939) 137–320; Distelbrink 219; (for the text on fol. 54v:) Bloomfield 3526; (for the text on fol. 53r:) Bloomfield 4159 & 6213; BAMAT 1 (1991) 1138; see also Eisermann, Stimulus amoris).
Excerpts, in the range of preface, cap. 1–24 (pr. Strasbourg, c.1476 (GW 2969), etc.; ed.: PL 40. 951–62 = PL 177. 171A–83B; Glorieux, Migne, 28; PLS 2. 1366; Römer ii/1. 122 (no. 16); ii/2. 276; Bloomfield 4957, and suppl.; CPPM 2. 3074).
Excerpts: 1. 3 & 6 (ed. J. Klapper, loc. cit., 20–22, l. 10; 25, ll. 2–11; 45–58; – BAMAT 1 (1991) 1138; see also F. Eisermann, loc. cit.).
Correctiones patrum = Vitas patrum, 7 (Verba seniorum), 44: De meditationibus duodecim anachoretarum (ed.: PL 73. 1060A–62C; BHL 6531; BHG 1448r; J.-C. Guy, ‘La collection des douze anachorètes’, AB 76 (1958) 419–27; C. M. Batlle, Die ‘Adhortationes sanctorum patrum’ (‘Verba seniorum’) im lateinischen Mittelalter, Beiträge zur Geschichte des alten Mönchtums und des Benediktinerordens 31 (Münster, 1972), citing the present MS. at p. 65 (no. 104; ‘Büchlein XXII’ of the Adhortationes) CPG 3. 5563).
Soliloquium, divided into five sections: the things that lead to Christ’s love, and to contempt for the world; a note on doomsday, infernal penalties, and the joy of paradise. For the same excerpts, see MS. Laud Misc. 227, fols 214v–217v.
excerpts (ed.: AMO 34 (1895) 115–118, 113f., 118f.; 197–200; 75; Little 269; Glorieux, Rép., 6dq & 14fc; Stegmüller, RS, 368; Distelbrink 75; Kaeppeli 1982; Mohan 485*; Bloomfield 1537, 6399, and suppl.; Steer, Hugo Ripelin, with a list of MSS at pp. 47–146). A hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse added in the lower margin of fol. 68r: ‘Hec de viciis excerpta sunt de compendio theologice veritatis libro iijo.’ and of fol. 72v: ‘Ex compendio libro iijo.’
Habakkuk, 1, 2.3 (ed.: PL 25. 1275B–76B; ed. M. Adriaen, CCSL 76A (1970) 581f.; Stegmüller, RB, 3367; BHM 216; CPL 589).
Imperfect. Excerpts, source(s) not identifiable.
Excerpt: En. 70, serm. 1. 15 (ed.: PL 36. 884–85; ed. E. Dekkers & J. Fraipont, CCSL 39 (1956) 952, ll. 6–19; – Stegmüller, RB, 1463, and suppl.; CPPM 2. 1869a; CPL 283).
2. 10 & 11, excerpts (ed.: PL 49. 97B–101A; ed. M. Petschenig & G. Kreuz, CSEL 17 (22004) 25–27, l. 8; J.-C. Guy, SChr 109 (1965) 74–78; – CPPM 2. 3625; CPL 513; Bloomfield suppl. 1380b).
Added by a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv; only select entries, and imperfect; included are items of the part that originally preceded the present volume (see also Origin below).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in lead point or ink, one column (except for fols 77r ff.: two columns) of c.28–37 unruled lines. Ruled space c.138–48 × 102–110 mm.
Hand(s)
textualis, s. xiv2, Mainz Charterhouse, by 1) (fols 1r–73r) one main hand. Further hands: 2) (fol. 73r) item 14, including the header on fol. 73v, from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv; 3) (fols 73v–74v) item 15, script of s. xiv; 4) (fols 74v–75r) item 16, two hands, changing on fol. 75r, l. 2; 5) (fol. 75r) item 17; 6) (fols 75v–76v) items 18 & 19, probably identical with hand 5; 7) responsible for the additions on fols 77ra–82ra (item 20) and the foliation (see above).ex;
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower left-hand margin of fol. 74v: ‘codex cartusiensium moguncie’, and the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of 77v: ‘Liber iste pertinet ad carthusienses prope Mogunciam’. Identifiable as D VII T in cat. ii.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. 1r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
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Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-09-03: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.