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MS. Laud Misc. 41

Summary Catalogue no.: 1431

Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella, Scala fidei; Tractatus de perfectione sanctificationis (Sermons); Germany (Mainz Charterhouse?), s. xiv1

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. 248–257. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols. 1r–23v)
Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella OP, Scala fidei,

unpr.; Little 101, citing the present MS.; T. Käppeli, ‘La tradizione manoscritta delle opere di Aldobrandino da Toscanella’, AFP 8 (1938) 163–92, at pp. 165–72, this copy at p. 165; Stegmüller Bibl. 1105, and suppl.; Zumkeller 335; Schneyer 1. 250–52, nos 350–80, this copy erroneously at p. 239 (Sermones quadragesimales); Kaeppeli 133 (recensio posterior), citing the present MS.; Distelbrink 197; T. Hohmann, ‘Initienregister der Werke Heinrichs von Langenstein’, Traditio 32 (1976) 399–426, at p. 407 (no. 70); Bloomfield 2210; see also Madre 321f. and H. Roßmann, ‘Die Quodlibeta und verschiedene sonstige Schriften des Franz von Meyronnes OFM’, Franziskanische Studien 54 (1972) 1–76, at p. 45, n. 127). Incipits/explicits often different from Schneyer; some sermons recorded in Schneyer omitted, others merged; the text on fol. 15vb not in Schneyer. Ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols. 23v–42v)
Sermons
Rubric: Tractatus de perfectione sanctificationis
Incipit: ⟨Q⟩vi sanctus est sanctificetur adhuc. et cetera. Ecce uenio cito et merces mea mecum. et reddere unicuique

Collection of eleven sermons: nine from Bertold of Regensburg, Sermones ad religiosos. The last three sermons (De spiritu sancto) anonymous.

(fols. 40v–41r)
Incipit: ⟨A⟩scendit deus in iubilacione et dominus in uoce tube. [Ps 46:6] Nota quod dominus propter .iiijor. ascendit. primo ut daret spiritum sanctum discipulis. unde expedit uobis
Explicit: Qualem locum amenissimum et securissimum. Bernardus. civitas celestis mansio secura.
(fol. 41r–v)
Incipit: ⟨O⟩ quam bonus et suauis domine et spiritus tuus. in omnibus nobis. Sap. xijo. Notandum quod dominus dat triplicem spiritum. unum in utero alium in nativitate alium in baptismo
Explicit: sic uenit ad iudicium. Bernardus. primi et secundi saluari possunt et tamen difficulter. sed tercii et quarti non. Rogemus.
(fols. 41v–42v)
Incipit: ⟨S⟩vper seruos et ancillas meas effundam de spiritu meo. Iohel ⟨3⟩ .ijo. Tria tanguntur in uerbis propositis. primo. ydoneitas id est honestas hoc est dignitas recipiencium spiritum suum. ibi. Super seruos
Explicit: inter spiritum divinum et dyabolicum. dyabolicus spiritus repleuit orbem terrarum scilicet odio. mendacio. et cetera.
Final rubric: Finito libro sit laus et gloria christo.
Language(s): Latin

fols. 43r-45v blank

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -theus. Inde uenturus
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii (17th-cent.) + 43 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.195–212 × 147–54 mm.
Foliation: i-ii, 1–45

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 44–46 lines, (fol. 42va/vb) ruled ad hoc. Ruled space c.157–64 × 113–17 mm.

Hand(s)

Small German textualis by a single hand.

Decoration

Unfilled spaces for initials and rubrication

Later added red rubrics at the top centre of fol. 1r and in the lower right-hand margin of fol. 23v, in a hand of s. xiv2 from the Mainz Charterhouse

Binding

Limp parchment case binding for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: s. xiv1 ; Germany, possibly at the Mainz Charterhouse, in the early years of its existence (s. xiv2/4).

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: late 14th-century ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 1r

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

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, cols. 75–6
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 61

Digital Images

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Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 248–257

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-16: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.