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MS. Laud Misc. 387

Summary Catalogue no.: 1091

Odo Astensis, Expositio in Psalmos; Germany, s. xivin.

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. 1111–115. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1va–70rb)
Odo Astensis, Commentary on the Psalms (fol. 1va) Expositio titulorum, incomplete, ending with Ps 26 (ed.: PL 165. 1142C–1298A (= Bruno de Segni, Opera, Venice 1651; Ps 1–44 and 86–110 only); Little 31 (anon.), this copy; Stegmüller, RB, 6051, citing the present MS.).
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -cucies et dampnabis
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes, parchment slips inserted and patches on leaves), (fol. 62) stitching with natural-coloured thread partially preserved.
Extent: ii (17th cent.) + 70 + ii (17th cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.223–35 × 145–52 mm.
Foliation: i, ii, 1–72, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i 1+(12-2) | ii and iii 12 | iv 10 | v 12 | vi 12+1

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of c.42–54 lines. Ruled space c.184–90 × 107–17 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xivin, by a single hand. Several marginalia.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: Early 14th century; ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper right- hand margin of fol. 2r: ‘Iste liber pertinet ad fratres Cartusienses prope mogunciam’ (boxed in). This manuscript appears to be the first part of A XVII C in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 2r.

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. 287
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 46

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. 1111–115

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-23: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.