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.