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MS. Laud Misc. 379

Summary Catalogue no.: 961

Humbert de Romans, De eruditione praedicatorum II.2; France, 14th century

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fols. 2r–109v)
Humbertus de Romans, De eruditione praedicatorum

Liber II, 2.

(fols. 2r–3v) Capitula
Rubric: In conciliis
Incipit: ⟨N⟩otandum est quod in ecclesia Dei fiunt Quedam concilia universalia, Quedam particularia
Explicit: Sed iusti qui recessit in statu iusticie et circa hoc notandum est quod aliqui devoti &c., ut supra.
(fols. 100r–101r)
Alphabetical tabula to the preceding
Incipit: Arguendi sunt mali
Explicit: Vigilie. ciiij. Explicit tabula.

Fols. 101v-102v blank except for ex libris, pen-trials (including verse, pr. Palmer, p. 116) and drawings, .

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 102 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 158 × 120 mm.

Decoration

Coloured initial, fol. 2r.

Initials mostly not filled in.

Drawings of the letter 'S' (fol. 1r) and scribbles added 15th century, second half. (Pächt and Alexander i. 177)

Binding

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

Former chained binding.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; script of French appearance.

Provenance and Acquisition

Petrus Santbecher aus Rockenhausen, inscriptions: 'Iste liber est fratris Pet… comparavit eum parisius duodecim solidis denar… parisyensium' and 'Petri quondam Petri s… dicti santbecher de Rockenhusen' (fol. 102v)

Liber fratris … monasterii Eberbacensis, Moguntinensis dyocesis (fol. 109v)

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey, ex libris: Liber sancte Marie virginis in Ebirbach (fol. 1v).

Identifiable as T 16 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 by Tuija Ainonen (January 2020) from the following sources (with additional description of the contents and ex libris):
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 116–8, 147, 253, 294 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols. (1966–1973) I, no. 177.
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, col. 284
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 40

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Bibliography

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-01-09: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.