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.
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.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.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).
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.)).
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)).
Quotations from I Samuel (I Kings) 15-31, II Samuel (II Kings) 3, and Proverbs 1-14.
Physical Description
Collation
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
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
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-09-29: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.