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MS. Laud Misc. 480

Summary Catalogue no.: 932

Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis; Saints' Lives; Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones. Germany, A) (fols 1–110) s. xiv1; B) (fols 111–198) s. xiv1/4.

Physical Description

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1261–1270. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–110) || B) (fols 111–198)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent.) + 198 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i, 1–199, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil; four unnumbered parchment slips, between fols 52/53 & 56/57 and 86/87 & 98/99.

Collation

A) i–v 12 | vi 8 | vii 6 | viii–x 12; B) xi & xii 12 | xiii 8-1 | xiv 10 | xv 8 | xvi 12 | xvii 14-1 | xvi 10 | xvii 6-2.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: Two German 14th-cent. fascicles, possibly bound together only in the course of the Laudian binding. The ex-libris inscription on fol. 111r, ‘Liber iste totus ...’, however, might refer to both parts of the volume, implying that they were already bound together when the inscription was inserted in the 15th century, at the Mainz Charterhouse. Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 2v.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 480 – Part A) (fols 1–110)

Contents

1. (fols 1ra–102rb)
Hugo Ripelin, Compendium theologicae veritatis (ed.: AMO 34 (1895) 1–261; Glorieux, Rép., 6dq & 14fc; Stegmüller, RS, 368, citing the present MS.; Distelbrink 75; Kaeppeli 1982, this copy; Mohan 485*; Bloomfield 1537, 6399, citing the present MS., and suppl.; Steer, Hugo Ripelin, with a list of MSS at pp. 47–146).
Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 102rb–110vb)
Lives of saints

For full details, see printed catalogue.

(fol. 102rb)

Marcus ev.

(fol. 102va)

Cyriacus et soc.

(fol. 103ra)

Philippus ap. (cf. Mombritius 2. 385 (BHL 6814 & 6815); and also Lib. epil. 152. 9ff.).

(fol. 103va)

Inventio s. crucis.

(fol. 104ra)

Eustachius (a summary of BHL 2761).

(fol. 104vb)

Vitus, Modestus et Crescentia.

(fol. 105vb)

Albanus (ed.: Acta SS Oct. xiii (1883) 337F–38B; – BHL 8112 (Theonestus ep. et soc.)).

(fol. 106ra)

Petrus et Paulus. A summary of the Passio s. apostolorum Petri et Pauli (ed. R. A. Lipsius, Acta apostolorum apocrypha, vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1891) 119–77 (= Ps.-Marcellus, De actibus apostolorum Petri et Pauli; – BHL 6657–59); – Stegmüller, RB, 251,3).

(fol. 106vb)

Translatio s. Iacobi (ed.: Acta SS Nov. I (1887) 22A–E; – BHL 4061).

(fol. 107rb)

Afra (a summary of the passion as printed in Mombritius 1. 31–43 (BHL 108/109)).

(fol. 108ra)

Tiburtius (AB 102 (1984) 377).

(fol. 108rb)

Agapetus (a summary of the legend as printed in Mombritius 1. 35–37 (BHL 125); see also A. Dufourcq,‘Le passionnaire occidental au VIIe siècle’, Mélanges d’archéologie et d’histoire 26 (1906) 27–65, at p. 54; BAMAT 15 (2005) 1661).

(fol. 108va)

Verena.

(fol. 108vb)

Magnus.

(fol. 109va)

Lambertus ep. Traiectensis.

(fol. 109vb)

Crispinus et Crispinianus.

(fol. 110va)

Theodorus.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: deitatis. Secundus (fol. 3ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes). Contemporary small parchment slips inserted between fols 52/53 & (its counterpart) 56/57, and 86/87 & (counterpart) 98/99, containing excerpts and notes. (fols 35, 47 & 78) Bookmarks: a small parchment strip pulled through two vertical slits in the outer margin, to indicate the beginning of individual books. Rust marks, at the top centre of fol. 1r and at the upper outer margin and top centre of fols 109v–110v: from chain staples and a corner boss, of at least two different former bindings.
Dimensions (leaf): c.196–200 × 139–48 mm.

Collation

i–v 12 | vi 8 | vii 6 | viii–x 12.

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of mostly 40 lines. Ruled space c.150–63 × 96–104 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv1, in at least three different hands.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, first half; Germany

Provenance

There is no evidence of medieval ownership, but see the Provenance entry for the whole volume.

MS. Laud Misc. 480 – Part B) (fols 111–198)

Contents

3. (fols 111ra–198ra)
Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones quodlibetales

F. Pelster, ‘Eine ungedruckte Quaestio des hl. Thomas von Aquin über die Erkenntnis der Wesenheit der Seele’, Gregorianum 36 (1955) 618–25, at pp. 619–21. A compilation of altogether 48 quaestiones from Thomas Aquinas’ De potentia, De spritualibus creaturis, De anima and De veritate, including two additional ones: (fols 171ra–174ra) De immortalitate animae and (fols 193rb–195ra) Utrum anima coniuncta cognoscat se ipsam per essentiam. Cf. E. Gomez, De immortalitate animae. Cuestión inédita de Santo Tomás de Aquino, Biblioteca de Tomistas Españoles. Serie manual 3 (Madrid & Valencia, 1935), etc.; P. Mandonnet, Des écrits authentiques de S. Thomas d’Aquin (Fribourg, 1910) 93; Glorieux, Rép., 14bb; F. Pelster, ‘Les manuscrits de Bombolognus de Bologne, O. P.’, RThAM 9 (1937) 404–412, at p. 411; Grabmann, Werke, 413; Shooner 3. 2059).

(fols 141va–vb, 158ra–159vb, 184va–vb) Additional notes.
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 198rb–vb)
Prayer and hymns

Inserted on original blank space.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: composita ex (fol. 112ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
Dimensions (leaf): c.192–200 × 141–50 mm.

Collation

xi & xii 12 | xiii 8-1 | xiv 10 | xv 8 | xvi 12 | xvii 14-1 | xvi 10 | xvii 6-2.

Layout

Ruling in ink, (fols 185ra–198rb) in lead point; two columns of c.40–43 lines. Ruled space c.150–62 × 105–10 mm.

Hand(s)

small German cursive textualis, s. xiv1/4, by several hands. Occasional marginal annotations and numbering in the text hands. (fols 141va–vb, 158ra–159vb, 184va–vb & 198r–vb) Additions in near-contemporary hands on original blanks: (fol. 184va, l. 3–vb) table of quaestiones in their order, numbered.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, first quarter; Germany

Provenance

Owned by ‘Albertus de Moylhusen’ (= Mühlhausen, a city in Thuringia), who bequeathed the book to the Charterhouse: see the plea (given below) to pray for him and his trustees, Conradus, a monk in Seligenstadt, and Iohannes, a scribe in Aschaffenburg.

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper and outer margin of fol. 111r: ‘Liber iste totus est Montis sancti Michaelis quondam Magistri alberti de moylhusen et oretis pro eo necnon [?] pro domino corado monacho in seligestat et pro Iohanne scriptore in aschaffenburg manu fidelibus alberti supradicti’.

Additional Information

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).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 347–8
Quarto Catalogue, p. 564
Quarto Catalogue, p. 565
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 39

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. 1261–1270

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-10-01: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.