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MS. Laud Misc. 462

Summary Catalogue no.: 1330

Ludolf of Saxony, Vita Christi; Germany (Eberbach?), 15th century, first half

Language(s): Latin

(fols. 1r–119v)

This is the third volume of a three-volume set; the first is British Library, Arundel 103 (dated 1413), the second British Library, Arundel 85.

Rubric: De pascha et diversis huius nominis acceptionibus

Incipit: Nunc secundum Ieronimum aspergamus de sanguine librum nostrum, ut limina domorum

Explicit: indigencie corporis et anime singulorum. Amen. Et nota quod ut deuocio magis augeatur in recolendo premissa ... ideo ut oraciones pro omnibus sint communes sequentem clausulam adde post quamlibet uel saltem post omnes. Hec omnia misericordissime domine deus eciam peto ... te laudent domine rex eterne glorie super omnia benedicite amen.

Final rubric: Expliciunt meditaciones de vita et moribus Domini nostri Jhesu Christi, qui pauperi eas pie colligenti et cuilibet eis bene utenti dignetur propicius misereri. Amen. Hec Ludolffus Carthusiensis. Item manufidelis et venerabilis patris Ludolffi sic scripsit. Explicit hoc opus collectum ex diversis et pluribus, de quo si quisque quod suum est tolleret parum vel nichil colligenti remaneret.

Followed, fols. 119v-120r, by several short notes and extracts:

Note on the chapter-numbering in the exemplar

Rubric: Uberes doctrine inuente in exemplari

Extracts from Ps.-Chrysostom and Augustine.

Extracts from Gratian and Gregory on penance.

Rubric: De preciositate psalmorum

Incipit: Spiritus dei prophetarum mentibus non semper presto est

Explicit: et ad medullam intimi intellectus per dei gracia perueneris

Abbreviated version of Alcuin (?), pref. to De psalmorum usu liber (PL 101.465–8).

Rubric: Sed iste sequentes oraciones sunt dicende ante psalterium cum deuocione

Incipit: Suscipe dignare domine deus omnipotens hos psalmos

Incipit: Immense pietatis omnipotens eterne deus qui peccantem non statim iudicas

Rubric: Eciam de psalmis quod asscribitur beato ieronimo

Incipit: Canticum psalmorum animas decorat, invitat angelos in adiutorium

Explicit: affectui psallentis conformabit

Begins as Ps.-Augustine, De laude psalmorum, PL 131.142, Stegmuller 369 (etc.)

Rubric: Ieronimus

Extract from Gratian, Decretum, 3 dist. 5 c. 24, 'non mediocriter errat ... atque tristicia'.

(fol. 120v)

List of chapter titles to the main work

Rubric: Incipiunt rubrice capitulorum premisse tercie partis Vite Christi

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 120 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 352 × 270 mm.

Dimensions (written): 272 × 204 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by the same scribe as MS. Laud Misc. 298, and British Library, Arundel MS 85.

Decoration

Coloured initials with simple decoration.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 15th century, 1st half ; German, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Probably written in the Eberbach scriptorium. (Palmer).

Eberbach ex libris (fol. 1r)

Identifiable as K 9 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen and Matthew Holford (November 2019) from the following sources (with additional description of the contents):

Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 128–131, 244, 281–2, 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. 330

Quarto Catalogue, col. 331

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 57