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MS. Laud Misc. 483

Summary Catalogue no.: 1267

Burchardus Anerbe de Argentina, Summa de paenitentia seu de casibus conscientiae. Germany, s. xiv1/4.

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. 1272–1276. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1ra–96vb)
Burchardus Anerbe de Argentina, Summa de poenitentia seu de casibus conscientiae (pr.: .: Lyon, 1510; – Quétif–Échard, SOP, 1. 466b; Schulte, GQ, 2. 423f.; J. Dietterle, ‘Die Summae confessorum (sive de casibus conscientiae) – von ihren Anfängen an bis zu Silvester Prierias ...’, ZKG 25 (1904) 248–72, at pp. 268–72; Little 235; Stelling-Michaud 78; Michaud-Quantin, Sommes, 42; Kaeppeli 706, citing the present MS.; K. Pennington, ‘Summae on Raymond de Pennafort’s “Summa de casibus” in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich’, Traditio 27 (1971) 471–80, at p. 472; Bloomfield 5744, and suppl.; see also 1361, 2719 & 5748). (fol. 1ra) list of chapters, to bk 1.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Primum cadit
Form: codex
Support: parchment; stitching in natural-coloured thread preserved on fols 46, 59 & 62 only, (fols 35 & 55) remnants of it (stitching holes). Three bookmarks made of parchment strips glued to the outer margins of fols 28 (sic), 49 & 83 to indicate the beginning of bks 2–4.
i (17th-cent.) + 99 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.200–07 × 146–57 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–99, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i 12-2 | ii–v 10 | vi 10-2 | vii & viii 8 | ix 10-2 | x 10-1 | xi 8. A parchment slip incorporated between fols 12/13, the stub between fols 18/19.

Layout

Ruling in ink (fols 29v–30r: lead point), two columns of 30–34 (typically 31) lines. Ruled space c.144–53 × 106–118 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv1/4, by a single hand; the parchment slip incorporated between fols 12/13 written in the text hand.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, first quarter; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r, immediately following the header, which was written in a different hand of s. xivex, employing one-compartment a only and likely from the Mainz Charterhouse, too (the same hand added a note at the head of fol. 83r referring to the table of chapters (bk 4) at the end of the volume): ‘...et est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 349
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 54

Digital Images

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Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1272–1276

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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