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MS. Laud Misc. 477

Summary Catalogue no.: 1171

Bandinus, Commentary on Sentences of Peter Lombard, etc. Italy, s. xiiex.

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. 1227–1233. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 1r–74r)
Magister Bandinus, Commentary on Peter Lombard, Sentences

Sententiarum libri iv (a compendium to Peter Lombard’s Sententiae) (ed.: PL 192. 971A–1112B; Little 39, citing the present MS. only; Stegmüller, RS, 94, citing the present MS. (incorrect folio no.), and suppl.; Landgraf, Einführung, 96, this copy; Bloomfield 800 (‘Hildegundus or Magister Bacidinus, Compendium de rebus divinas’).

(fol. 74r) a note on sepulture during the Holy Week.
2. (fols 74v–75r)
De tribus Mariis

Notes and verses.

(fol. 74v) note. (fol. 75r) Extract from Hildebert of Lavardin, Carmina minora (eight hexameters), followed by geneology of St Anne and three Mariae.
3. (fols 75v–76r)
Peter Damian, Epistolae (epp. 92-3, De quindecim signis diem iudicii praecedentibus)

Ed.: K. Reindel, Die Briefe des Petrus Damiani Teil 3, MGH Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit 4,3 (Munich, 1989) 21, l. 4–23 (ep. 92) & 30, ll. 5–36 (ep. 93); Gerhardt & Palmer, Fünfzehn Zeichen, 62, etc. – BHM 654; C. Lohmer, ‘Endzeiterwartung bei Petrus Damiani: Überlegungen zu seinen Briefen Nr. 92 und 93’, in Regensburg, Bayern und Europa. Festschrift für Kurt Reindel zum 70. Geburtstag, eds L. Kolmer & P. Segl (Regensburg, 1995) 175–87; Gerhardt & Palmer, Fünfzehn Zeichen, 61–63).

4. (fol. 76v)
Verse (computus)

Memorial verses: Easter day text for the years 1140–1212 (ed. B. Bischoff, ‘Ostertagtexte und Intervalltafeln’, in his Mittelalterliche Studien 2, 192–227, at pp. 218f. (12 1/2 verses); cf. also p. 198; Walther, IC, 7310, ‘De ciclo decemnovennali’, citing the present MS. (incorrect date and folio no.)).

5. (fol. 77r)
Hildebert of Lavardin, De mysterio missae

Extract of seven hexameters (De mutatione locorum in missa) (ed.: PL 171. 1192C or 1194A & B respectively (v. 1–5) & 1194A (v. 6–7); Walther, IC, 5831, citing the present MS. (incorrect date: s. xiv)).

6. (fol. 77r–v)
Old Testament

Quotations from I Samuel (I Kings) 15-31, II Samuel (II Kings) 3, and Proverbs 1-14.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Hoc itaque uera
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fols 30, 53 & 62) Bookmarks, to each book: blue-coloured thread, horizontally sewn into the outer margin.
ii (17th-cent.) + 77 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.185–90 × 126–32 mm.
Foliation: i, ii, 1–79, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. Medieval foliation in roman numerals, together with ‘f.’ (folio), in upper right-hand margins.

Collation

i–ix 8 | x 2 | xi 4-1.

Layout

Ruling (fols 1r–74r, l. 4) in hard point, one column of 29 or 30 lines. Ruled space c.135–138 × 76–80 mm.

Hand(s)

main text (item 1): late protogothic script, Italy, s. xiiex, by a single hand, above top line. Marginalia and corrections added by scribe and contemporary hands. Headers, in a hand of s. xivex or s. xv, which also added foliation. (Items 2–6) Each item in a different, contemporary or younger hand (hands 2–6).

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander ii. list, p. 105)

Penwork initials in red, blue and gold.

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication

Binding

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

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 1r: ‘Liber carthusiensium moguncie’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. ii 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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 345
Quarto Catalogue, p. 564
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 50

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. 1227–1233

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-29: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.