MS. Laud Misc. 352
Summary Catalogue no.: 1077
Theological composite manuscript. Germany, A) (fols 1–10) Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2; B) (fols 11–72) s. xivin; C) (fols 73–124) Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2; D) (fols 125–144) Mainz Charterhouse (?), s. xiv2/4; E) (fols 145–173) Mainz Charterhouse (?), s. xiv2/4.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: MS. Laud Misc. 352 consists of five Charterhouse books; at least parts A–C were already bound together in the late 14th-cent., see the continuous foliation on fols 5v–124r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbishop Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1v.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part A (fols 1–10)
Contents
Item 1 occupies parts A–C (fols 1r–124vb): a collection of Saints’ lives and legends; usually anonymous texts, only sporadically from Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (ed.: Maggioni; Kaeppeli 2154, citing the present copy; Fleith, Studien, 591) or recorded in AB 102 (1984) 163–96; 355–80 (Inédits et non recensés dans la BHL). The registrum, which is mentioned in the table on fol. 5r (‘Item registrum in fine alligatum’), is missing. For full details see printed catalogue.
[Ps.-Ambrose, serm. 48: In festo sanctae Agnetis virginis et martyris], excerpt (ed.: PL 17. 701C; – BHL 158 and BHL suppl. 158 & 158a; CPL 180)
List of legends, in their order; at the upper margin of fol. 2r, in red: ‘Nota quod legende sanctorum infra scriptorum sunt inueniende per numerum infra signatum sicut patebit.’
prologue (Maggioni 1, pp. 3–5)
(LA 1)
(LA 6)
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
(fols 5v ff.) ruling visible in lead-point, two columns of c.41–46 unruled lines. Ruled space c.175–78 × 130–35 mm.
Hand(s)
bastarda, s. xiv2, by a single hand from the Mainz Charterhouse.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Carthusiensium iuxta prope mogunciam’.
MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part B (fols 11–72)
Contents
See above. A hand of s. xivex from the Mainz Charterhouse occasionally added rubrics, see printed catalogue for a full listing.
(cf. Acta SS Maii 1 (1680) 449A–50F (BHL 7023; cf. also BHL suppl. and BHL nov. suppl. 7025a & e)
[Bede, Martyrologium], VI Idus Maii (ed.: PL 94. 908A–909B) and [Ado Viennensis, Martyrologium], VI Idus Maii (ed.: PL 123. 262D–63B)
Cf. [Ado Viennensis, Martyrologium], III Kal. Augusti (ed.: PL 123. 310C–11B)
Summary of BHL 1958 (ed.: Mombritius 1. 373, ll. 2–54)
[Sulpicius Severus, Vita s. Martini], 2.1–11.5, abridgement (ed.: PL 20. 161B–67A; ed. J. Fontaine, SChr 133 (1967, repr. 2004 with add. and corr.) 254–76; – BHL 5610, 5611–16; CPL 475–77)
(ed.: P. Michaud-Quantin, ‘Deux formulaires pour la confession du milieu du XIIIe siècle’, RThAM 31 (1964) 43–62, at pp. 57–62, ed. at pp. 60–62; – Shooner 1. 915; Bloomfield 221, and suppl., or 222 respectively, and 4125). The present text varies greatly from that of the edition,
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in lead point (fols 11ra–46rb) and ink (fols 46va–72vb), two columns of 35–37 lines. Ruled space c.168–75 × 120–24 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xivin, by several hands.
Decoration
Flourished initials in red and blue.
Coloured initials in red and blue.
Rubrication.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: see Foliation above.
MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part C (fols 73–124)
Contents
See above. For a full listing, see printed catalogue.
(LA 44. 1–96)
(LA 91. 3–5); a shortened version of Acta SS Iul. v (1727) 130C–D, follows.
(Schneyer 7. 80. 22)
(LA 11)
(LA 19)
(LA 21. 1–8; 10–122)
(LA 94)
Christophorus (LA 96).
Macarius (LA 18. 5–61).
(LA 40. 3–11)
(LA 36. 2–73)
(LA 47)
Marcellinus (LA 58).
(LA 76. 14–85)
(LA 80. 8–53)
(LA 81)
(LA 83)
LA 107)
Eusebius (LA 104)
(LA 111. 6–53)
(LA 116)
(LA 129)
[Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia], hom. 1. 4 (ed.: PL 76. 1090B–C; ed. R. Étaix, CCSL 141 (1999) 28, ll. 37–60; – Stegmüller, RB, 2646; CPPM 2. 2289; CPL 1711)
(LA 132)
(ed.: Mombritius 2. 103; – BHL p. 723, s. v. Leodegarius ep. Augustodunensis, 7. Epitomae)
(LA 145)
(LA 151. 12–87)
(LA 156. 1–9)
(LA 160)
(LA 174)
LA app. 210 (207) (ed.: Graesse 910, l. 1–911, l. 65; – BHL 2324)
(see MS. Laud Misc. 173, fols 65r–70v)
(LA 37)
(LA 50)
(LA 115)
(LA 127. 1–180)
(LA 158)
(LA 159. 1–238)
[Thomas Aquinas, Officium de corpore Christi], lectiones 1–6 (ed. C. Lambot, ‘L’office de la Fête-Dieu. Aperçus nouveaux sur ses origines’, RB 54 (1942) 61–123, at pp. 75–79)
[Thomas Aquinas, Officium de corpore Christi], lectiones 7–9 (ed. C. Lambot, loc. cit., 80–81)
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in faint lead point, in two columns of c.45–53 unruled lines. Ruled space c.178–85 × 127–31 mm.
Hand(s)
bastarda, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: see Foliation above.
MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part D (fols 125–144)
Contents
Expositio sequentiarum et hymnorum (Little 230 (‘Anon. in Greg. sequentias’, this copy)
(fol. 144v) entries in the lower margin: De proprietatibus iuniperis and verses.Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in lead point and ink, two columns of 43 or 44 lines. Ruled space c.181–85 × 122–27 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand, possibly from the Mainz Charterhouse.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 144v: ‘Iste liber est domus sancti Michahelis prope magunciam ordinis carthusiensis. restituetis post mortem Et psalterium paruum quem concessit michi. dominus cristianus. Et formulam nouiciorum quam dictauit frater dauid. quod concessit mihi dominus gotfridus. quando fuimus in noua fundacione in luthomussel. Et algorismum[?] [erasure] valete in cristo’; and at the lower margin: ‘Iste liber est domus Sancti Michahel prope mogunciam ordinis carthusiensis. quem concessit mihi Iohannes laupach [sic] existens prior [expunged, and cancelled: beate marie] Rubi beate Marie prope luthomussel superiori almania. bohemie’. According to these inscriptions, the present fascicle belonged to the Mainz Charterhouse, after it had been given to an unnamed Carthusian by first prior of the Charterhouse in Leitomichl, Iohann von Lampach. To be returned to (presumably) the Mainz Charterhouse after his death were furthermore a Psalterium parvum, given to him by dominus Christianus, a copy of David of Augsburg’s Formula novitiorum, given to him by dominus Gotfridus, when they were at the newly founded Charterhouse Leitomichl, as well as an (unspecified) ‘algorismum’.
MS. Laud Misc. 352 – Part E (fols 145–173)
Contents
Glossa super cantica sacra et hymnos.
Versus contra feminam (Walther, IC, 12211, citing the present MS. (s. xiv); Walther, Proverbia, 18666a)
(fol. 171rb) below: Marbode of Rennes, Poems. Carmina, 13: Commendatio virtutum per comparationem (ed.: PL 171. 1653D–54A; ed. H. Hagen, Carmina medii aevi maximam patrem inedita (Bern, 1877) no. 106; – Chevalier 41533; Walther, IC, 20475, citing the present MS)Septem gaudia BMV, attributed to Philip the Chancellor (ed.: Mone, Lateinische Hymnen, 2. 457; ed. G. G. Meersseman, Der Hymnos Akathistos im Abendland, II. Gruß-Psalter, Gruß-Orationen, Gaude-Andachten und Litaneien, Spicilegium Friburgense 3 (Fribourg, 1960) 195–99; Chevalier 21899, citing the present MS.; Glorieux, Rép., 119d7; Walther, IC, 20560; cf. also 20561; Wilmart 329, n. 1)
(fol. 173vb, l. 24) followed by a prayer.Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in ink, two columns of usually 44 lines. Ruled space c.182–84 × 122–27 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xiv2/4 (from the Mainz Charterhouse?).
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower left-hand margin of fol. 145r: ‘Codex carthusiensium moguntie’; a hand contemporary to the text hand inserted in the lower left-hand margin of fol. 154v: ‘moguncia’.
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-09-05: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.