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MS. Laud Misc. 325

Summary Catalogue no.: 1182

Albertus Magnus, De mysterio missae; Ps.-Augustine, Manuale; Ps.- Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes. Germany (Mainz Charterhouse?), s. xiv2/4.

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. 991–996. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 1r–28r)
Albertus Magnus, De mysterio missae

Abbreviated version: part 1 (ed.: Glorieux, Rép., 6ca; ZKTh 82 (1960) 1–39; C.A.L.M.A. I. 132, Albert 47, no. 100).

2. (fols 28r–33r)
Ps.-Augustine, Manuale

Preface (shortened), cap. 1–17 (ed.: PL 40. 951–59 = PL 177. 171A–79D; Glorieux, Migne, 28; PLS 2. 1366; Römer ii/1. 122 (no. 17); ii/2. 276; Bloomfield 4957, and suppl.; CPPM 2. 3074).

3. (fol. 33r)

Soliloquy on Virgin Mary, anonymous.

4. (fols 33v–42v, 47v–r, 43r–45v, l. 6)
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes piissimae

Binding error, with the text ending on fol. 42v and continuing on fol. 47v–r (ed.: PL 184. 485A–508B; Glorieux, Migne, 71; Leclercq, Études, 12; Bloomfield 3126, and suppl.; BGOC 18. 7229).

(fol. 45v, ll. 7–34) Additions.
5. (fol. 46r)

Two short sermons in Ps 79:15, anonymous.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: psalmus Domine
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 21) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
Extent: ii (17th cent.) + 49 + ii (17th cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.171–77 × 111–25 mm.
Foliation: i, ii, 1–49, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i and ii 8 | iii 10 | iv and v 8 | vi 6+1. Binding error: fol. 47 inserted at end of last quire (with script upside-down), instead of verso following fol. 42v at beginning of last quire.

Layout

Ruling in ink, one column of 33 lines. Ruled space c.130–34 × 90–93 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand. (Item 5) Bastarda, s. xv, in a Carthusian hand from Mainz. (Items 2 and 4) Hands of s. xivex and s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse added titles.

Decoration

Unfilled spaces for initials and rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter; Germany, possibly at the Mainz Charterhouse

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right- hand margin of fol. 1r: ‘fratrum Cartusiensium Maguncie’ and, in a different hand, at the upper margin of fol. 46v: ‘Codex Carthusiensium moguncie’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. ii verso.

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. 252
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. 991–996

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-16: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.