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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

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