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MS. Laud Misc. 405

Summary Catalogue no.: 811

Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis. Germany, s. xivmed.

Contents

Language(s): Latin

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1136–1141. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1ra–77va)
Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis (pr.: GW 596–611; ed.: AMO 34 (1895) 1–261; Glorieux, Rép., 6dq & 14fc; Stegmüller, RS, 368, citing the present MS.; Distelbrink 75; Kaeppeli 1982, this copy; Mohan 485*; Bloomfield 1537, 6399, citing the present MS., and suppl.; Steer, Hugo Ripelin, with a list of MSS at pp. 47–146, this copy at p. 116 (no. 323). A table of chapters precedes each book. (fol. 1r) Excerpt from Jerome, Ad Rusticum monachum (ep. 125), 11 (ed.: PL 22. 1078; ed. I. Hilberg, CSEL 56/1 (1996) 130, ll. 3f.; BHM 125; CPL 620).

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: a nullo
Form: codex
Support: parchment; medieval repairs (remnants (stitching holes) on fols 10, 17, 21, 39, 45, 48 & 75).
78 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.220–28 × 170–72 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–78, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i–ii 10 | iii–viii 8 | ix 10.

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 41 lines. Ruled space c.175–78 × 121–25 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xivmed, by a single hand. Corrections and marginalia throughout.

Decoration

(fol. 2ra & va) Flourished initials in red and blue.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: Mid 14th century; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est carthusiensium prope magunciam’.

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

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. 298
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 35

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. 1136–1141

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.