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MS. Laud Misc. 369

Summary Catalogue no.: 938

Guilelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis. Germany, s. xiiiex.

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. 1050–1063. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fol. 1ra–vd)
Vocabulary, with glosses

Laid out in four columns; ruled in ink; often with Latin glosses below.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 2ra–152va)
Guilelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis

The present copy lacks the rationale for the vices. The text is in general heavily abbreviated (pr.: Basel, not after 1474 (Goff P89); GW 12051–53 or GW 12054–57; Little 73; A. Dondaine, ‘Guillaume Peyraut: vie et oeuvres’, AFP 18 (1948) 162–236, at pp. 184–97, this copy at p. 195; Kaeppeli 1622 A, citing the present MS.; Bloomfield 1628, and suppl.; S. Wenzel, ‘The continuing life of William Peraldus’s Summa vitiorum’, in Ad litteram: authoritative texts and their medieval readers, eds M. D. Jordan & K. Emery, Jr., Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies 3 (Notre Dame & London, 1992) 135–63, this copy at p. 158 n. 30).

(fol. 2ra) tabula, with titles in their order.
Language(s): Latin
3. (fols 152va–155vb)
Treatises on vices

An exemplum, notes and sermons, mainly on vices, based on Guilelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis.

Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 156ra–161ra)
Sermons

Sermons and notes on virtues.

Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 161ra, l. 18–166ra)
On the Passion

Various notes on the Passion of Christ; several passages from Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux, etc.

Language(s): Latin
6. (fols 166ra–169ra)
Theological notes

Notes on repentance.

Language(s): Latin
7. (fols 169ra–171vb)
Sermons

Sermones dominicales.

Language(s): Latin
8. (fol. 172r)
Medical notes and recipes
8.1.

Minuscules a–l above the note.

Language(s): Latin
8.2.

Wound dressing recipe.

Language(s): Latin
8.3.

Remedies for toothache, fever and rheumatism.

Language(s): Latin
9. (fols 172va–173rc)
Tabula

List of contents for the Summa de vitiis.

(fol. 173rc, l. 10) followed by a note De quinque sensibus.
Language(s): Latin
10. (fols 173va)
Tabula

A few entries from items 2–7.

Further recipes at the lower margin.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: gulositatis. C. ijo. (fol. 5ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 107) stitching partly preserved, in natural-coloured thread. (fol. 152) A bookmark made of natural-colored thread sewn into the outer centre, indicating the end of the Summa de vitiis.
v (17th-cent.) + 173 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.210–28 × 155–60 mm.
Foliation: i–v, 1–175, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. Contemporary foliation at the upper left-hand margin, in one of the text hands.

Collation

i 1+2 | ii & iii 8 | iv 10-2 | v–xxii 8 | xxiii 2

Layout

(fols 2r ff.) variations in size of writing space and in patterns of ruling; two columns, mostly in ink. Ruled space c.160–75 × 107–12 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiiiex, two main hands: 1) (fols 4ra–67ra); 2) (fols 68ra–137va, l. 19); the rest in several hands. Marginalia, in contemporary hands; at least three annotating hands of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Flourished initial (fol. 4ra) in red.

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639

History

Origin: Late 13th century; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription near the centre of fol. 172rb: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’, and the 15th-cent, ex-libris inscription at the head of fol. 173v: ‘Codex Carthusiensium maguncie’. Annotating hands of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse, see Script.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. 3v.

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. 278
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 39

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. 1050–1063

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-05: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.