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MS. Laud Misc. 437

Summary Catalogue no.: 881

Durandus de Sancto Porciano, Commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences; 14th century, second half

Contents

(fols. 1r–233r; fols. 129(a)v–130v blank)
Durandus de Sancto Porciano, Commentary on Peter Lombard, Sententiae, bks. 1–2

Third recension

Incipit: ⟨E⟩st deus in celo reuelans mysteria Dan. 2o et Luce c. 12o dicitur quod nihil opertum est quod non revelatur
Final rubric: (fol. 127v) Explicit nouum scriptum super primum sentenciarum compilatum per fratrem durandum de sancto porciano ordinis fratrum predicatorum

Fols. 128r-129(a)r, table of questions

Final rubric: (fol. 129(a)r) Explicit tituli questionum huius primi libri. Explicit iste liber. Sit scriptor crimine liber.

Fols. 129(a)v-130v blank.

Incipit: (fol. 131r) Est deus in celo reuelans misteria et cetera sicut dictum fuit a principio nomine celi designatur

Fols. and 232r-233r, table of questions

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 240 leaves (iii + 233 + iii, fol. 129 doubled)
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 224 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 157 mm.

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials.

Spaces for initials mostly unfilled in book 1.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, second half

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey, ex libris: liber sancte Marie Virginis In Eberbach (fol. 4r)

Identifiable as B 18 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502 (the second volume, B 19, with the commentary on books 3–4, does not survive).

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 ex libris on fol. 4r):
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 233, 295 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, col. 317
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 37

Digital Images

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Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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