MS. Laud Misc. 353
Summary Catalogue no.: 1076
Mechtild of Hackborn, Liber specialis gratiae; 14th century, end/15th century, beginning
Contents
(fols. 1-60v)
, Liber specialis gratiae, with two prologues
(fol. 1r)
Prologue 1 Incipit: Benignitas et humanitas Salvatoris mundi, que humano generi per ipsius incarnationem
(fol. 1rv)
Prologue 2 Incipit: Liber iste, licet totus revelaciones et visiones dici possit
Incipit: Abit virgo quedam a Deo ab infantia et benedictionibus dulcedinis perventa
Explicit: aliquando vero tam spirituale erat ac divinum, quod nullis potuit humanis verbis explicare.
(MS. Laud Misc. 353 and 396 once formed one volume) Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 61 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 234 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 188 × 134 mm.
Decoration
None.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639. Formerly chained.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Identifiable as Z 12 (part 2) in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573-1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Description adapted (October 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 257, 294 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858-1885 [contents, acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-10-24: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.