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MS. Laud Misc. 473

Summary Catalogue no.: 1046

Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis; Medela animae vulneratae, etc. Northern France (Paris?), s. xiv2/4.

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. 1217–1225. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fol. 1ra–rb)

Later added notes, see printed catalogue for full description.

2. (fols 2va–149vb)
Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium ueritatis theologicae

With prologue (pr.: GW 596–611; ed.: AMO 34 (1895) 1–261; – Little 269 (anonymous); Glorieux, Rép., 6dq & 14fc; Stegmüller, RS, 368, citing the present MS.; Distelbrink 75; Kaeppeli 1982, citing the present MS.; Mohan 485*; Bloomfield 1537, 6399, citing the present MS. (incorrect folio nos), and suppl.; Steer, Hugo Ripelin, with a list of MSS at pp. 47–146, this copy at p. 116 (no. 322)).

(fol. 2va) list of chapter titles to bks 1–7.
3. (fols 150ra–165va)
Medella animae vulnerate

Treatise on penance, with prologue (Little 122, citing the present MS.; Michaud-Quantin, Sommes, 92 (& 118, index) (‘Medicina animae vulneratae’); Hauréau, Initia, 3. 161va, this copy only; Bloomfield 2652, this copy).

4. (fol. 165va–vb)
Theological treatise
Rubric: De utilitate et merito taciturnitatis.
5. (fols 165vb–166ra)
Sermon
Rubric: Sermo de Nativitate christi..
6. (fol. 166ra–rb)
Theological treatise
Rubric: De forma Christi

(ed. E. v. Dobschütz, Christusbilder. Untersuchungen zur christlichen Legende, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur NF 3, H. 1/2 (Leipzig, 1899) 319** (a); cf. Vienna, ÖnB, Cod. Ser. n. 509, De dispositione Iesu Christi (Hauréau, Initia, 4. 15vb)).

7. (fol. 166rb–va)
Theological treatise
Rubric: De forma beate virginis.
8. (fols 166va–172rb)
Theological treatise
Rubric: De modo remissionis.
9. (fol. 172rb–vb)
Peter Lombard, Sententiarum libri IV,

4. 11. 5 & 6 and 12. 4, excerpt (ed.: PL 192. 864 (fol. 172rb–va, l. 31) & 866 (fol. 172va, l. 32–vb); ed. I. Brady, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum 5 (Grottaferrata, 31981) 302, l. 8–303, l. 12; 308, ll. 6–11).

10. (fols 173ra–178vb)

Table of contents to Item 2.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: uoluntate. De (fol. 3ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fol. 4) the lower right-hand corner repaired, before the decoration was inserted, (fol. 179) the lower margin. Bookmarks to items 2 (and to bks 2–7), 3 & 10: parchment strips, glued to both sides of the outer margins of fols 3, 24, 43, 64, 83, 112, 134 (broken off), 150 & 173.
i (17th-cent.) + 180 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.181–89 × 127–32 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–181, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i 1+12 | ii 12 | iii 14 | iv–x 12 | xi 14 | xii & xiii 12 | xiv 12-1 (?) | xv 10-2 (?).

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of (quires i–xiii) 33, (quires xiv & xv) 37 lines. Ruled space c.133–40 × 92–96 mm.

Hand(s)

(fols 2v ff.) French textualis, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand. Marginal annotations and corrections in several hands of s. xv; some of these are Carthusian, from Mainz.

Decoration

Under French influence. Pächt and Alexander i. 135:

Decorated borders in red and blue; (fol. 4ra) illuminated border with floral decorations and animal grotesques.

(fol. 4ra) historiated initial in rose and gold, with depiction of a man reading.

Fleuronnée initials in red and blue.

Coloured initials in red and blue; running headers to item 2; paraphs.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter; France, North (Paris?).

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 2r: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Cartusiensium prope moguntiam’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 3r.

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). Decoration further described in Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 344
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 44

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. 1217–1225

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-22: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.