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MS. Laud Misc. 377

Summary Catalogue no.: 963

Conrad of Hirsau; German, West c. 1200

Language(s): Latin

Fol. 2r is a reject leaf with the beginning of item 1; fol. 2v, ex libris.

1. (fols. 3r-31v)

Conrad of Hirsau (?), Dialogus de mundi contemptu vel amore

Rubric: Incipit dialogus de personis duabus, idem Matriculario N. Monacho N. fratribus assignatus, in quo dum de mundi contemptu vel amore rationibus alternis disceptatur, frater fratrem Christo mediante lucratur; unde sequens opusculum, quasi vestibulum quoddam monastici paradisi proponitur ubi moralium disciplinarum sententie, quasi flores colliguntur et introitus altiora temperatur.

Incipit: Cum manifestum sit mundum in maligno positum et hoc non solum verbis

Explicit: Itaque querendo lacescere noli quia desperatio invencionis defectus itinerantis est. Cesset ergo amodo dialogus iste et propositum exequamur.

2. (fols. 31v-43v)

Conrad of Hirsau (?), De fructibus carnis et spiritus

Rubric: Prologus de fructu carnis et spiritus

Incipit: (prol.) Cum omnis divine pagine sermo id intendat, ut humilitatis bonum

Incipit: (text) Si igitur adiunxeris similia similibus, partium equalitas

3. (fols. 44r-55v)

Conrad of Hirsau (?), Allocutio ad Deum

Incipit: (prol.) Homo constat ex carne et spiritu

Incipit: (text) Deus rectum creavit hominem

Explicit: ex inventione tecum eternaliter exultantes.

It is unclear whether fol. 44r forms part of the text or comprises a separate short piece.

4. (fols. 55v-115r)

Conrad of Hirsau (?), De veritatis inquisitione

Incipit: Veritatis inquisitio sicut ad interiora mentem excitat sic ad exterioraa purgat

Explicit: parcere vero cum possis hostem ledere triumphus et ex virtute.

5. (fols. 115v-119r)

Treatise on prosody

Rubric: Incipit summarius tocius scripture et de quolibet verbo, utrum corripiatur vel producatur. Sume consonantem ad vocales et scito habebis noticiam eius.

Incipit: a b a, b. ex stabat . nabat . flabat . et eorum futura

Explicit: Explicit summarius divine scripture ...

6. (fol. 119v)

Treatise on music

Rubric: Incipit tractatus de quolibet \cantu/ ubi incipiat vel terminetur ...

Incipit: Omnis cantus primi toni et secundi toni desinit in de sol re

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 120 (ii + 118) leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 232 × 155 mm.

Dimensions (written): 160 × 100 mm.

Hand(s)

Four scribes.

Decoration

Good historiated diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander i. 115, pl. IX).

Full-page trees of virtues and vices, fols. 33v-34r; schematic illustration on fol. 44r.

Initial, fol. 55v.

Red and green initials with ornamentation.

Binding

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

History

Origin: c. 1200 ; German, West

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey, ex libris: Liber sancte Marie in Eberbach. Peregrinus minor. (fol. 2v)

Identifiable as h 22 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

Hans Peter Ehrlich, 1601: ownership inscription, fol. 119v.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 377 - endleaf (fol. 1)

(fol. 1)

Calendar,

14–31 December

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: part of one leaf

Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 155 mm.

History

Origin: 12th century, end

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen (January 2020) from the following sources (with additional description of the contents):

Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 80, 275, 294, 315 fragment 38 [physical description, date, provenance]

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols. (1966–1973) I, no. 115, pl. IX. [origin]

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 282

Quarto Catalogue, col. 283

Quarto Catalogue, p. 559

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 40