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MS. Laud Misc. 401

Summary Catalogue no.: 531

Ecclesiastical statutes. Germany, s. xiiiex.

Contents

Werner von Eppstein, Ecclesiastical statutes.

Diocesan statutes issued c. 1274-1275 by Werner von Eppstein, archbishop of Mainz, 1259-1284 (ed.: Peter Johanek, Synodalia. Untersuchungen zur Statutengesetzgebung in den Kirchenprovinzen Mainz und Salzburg während des Spätmittelalters (Habilitationsschrift, Univ. Würzburg, 1978), Bd. 3, Anhang 2, Nr. 1, 71-106, at 85-87 [=c. 13]; Dorin, Rowan, ed. Corpus Synodalium: Local Ecclesiastical Legislation in Medieval Europe, 30 June 2021, www.corpus-synodalium.com. Accessed 15/12/2023.). One other surviving copy in Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, lat. 1085, (fols. 33r-37r).

Rubric: Statuta papalia
Incipit: Cum ea que salubriter circa prauos seu aduocatos causarum legali sanctione fuerint promersa
Explicit: qui secus fecerint excomunicentur
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: de proventibus
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent. paper) + i (parchment) + 6 + i (parchment) + i (17th-cent. paper) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 165 mm.
Foliation: ii, 1-8 in a modern (19th-cent) hand

Collation

1(6)

Layout

Ruling in lead point, single column of 32 lines. Ruled space 195 × 125 mm.

Hand(s)

Gothic textualis, s. xiiiex, by a single hand.

Decoration

Coloured initial in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Limp vellum for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: Late 13th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael (?): probably identifiable as part of L V S in cat. ii (Mainz StB Hs I 576 fol. 159r) from title reference: ‘Statuta papalia’, corresponding to title inscription in top margin (f. 1r) (cf. cat. 1, L VII P). Other parts of L V S survive in MS. Laud Misc. 410 and (probably) MS. Laud Lat. 28.

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

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

Description by Alison Ray and Matthew Holford, Jan. 2024. 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. 401
Quarto Catalogue, col. 402
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 26

Digital Images

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Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-01-05: Description revised for Mainz digitization project.