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MS. Laud Misc. 492

Summary Catalogue no.: 1199

Henricus de Frimaria, Liber de perfectione spirituali interioris hominis; Sequences and Excerpts. Germany, Mainz Charterhouse: A) (fols 1–57a, 65) s. xiv2; B) (fols 57b–64) s. xivmed.

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. 1278–1284. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–57a, 65) || B) (fols 57b–64)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (17th-cent.) + 66 leaves
Foliation: i, 1–65, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil; no. 57 double (fols 57a & 57b).

Collation

A) i–v 12-2 | vi 8-1 ; A+B) vii 8 + (2-1). Fols 57b–64 = part B; fol. 65 belongs to fascicle A.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: MS. Laud Misc. 492 consists of two parts, possibly bound together at the Mainz Charterhouse; with regard to contents, however, the position of part B seems inappropriate, which might suggest that the book, in its present form, is an English production. Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

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

MS. Laud Misc. 492 – Part A) (fols 1–57a, 65)

Contents

1. (fols 1r–57av; 65r)
Henricus de Frimaria, Liber de perfectione spirituali interioris hominis

With prologue and list of chapters (unpr.; Stroick, Friemar, 63–64; Zumkeller 323, citing the present MS. (incorrect folio no.), & 323 (addendum); Bloomfield 4705; ‘Heinrich von Friemar der Ältere’, 2VL 3 (1981) 730–37, at col. 731 [R. G. Warnock]).

Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 65v)
Augustine, De civitate dei I.8

Extract, 1. 8 (ed.: PL 41. 20–21; ed. E. Hoffmann, CSEL 40, 1 (1899) 13, l. 23–14, l. 24; B. Dombart & A. Kalb, CCSL 47 (1955) 7, l. 15–8, l. 43; – CPL 313).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: gule concupiscentiam
Form: codex
Support: parchment, palmimpsested; most of remaining text is preserved on fols 55v & 65v, written at right angles to the upper text: Hebrew letters in brown ink visible, however not enough to properly identify the text; not all leaves show erasure.
Dimensions (leaf): c.189–96 × 138–46 mm.

Collation

A) i–v 12-2 | vi 8-1 ; A+B) vii 8 + (2-1). Fols 57b–64 = part B; fol. 65 belongs to fascicle A.

Layout

Ruling in lead point; one column of 36–39 lines. Ruled space c.141–51 × 99–103 mm.

Hand(s)

Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2, by mainly two hands, changing at fols 40v/41r (quires iv/v); hand A1 writes an early compressed bastarda, hand A2 textualis. A hand s. xv from the Charterhouse added item 5 on fol. 65v, in bastarda. A few marginal corrections and annotations in the text hands and in other contemporary hands from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half; Germany, Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: part A is vacant of any ex-libris inscription, but likely copied at Mainz Charterhouse to judge from script and parchment.

MS. Laud Misc. 492 – Part B) (fols 57b–64)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 57br–v, parchment slip)
Ezekiel (excerpts),

18:20–23 & 30–32; 33:7–16.

3. (fols 58r–63v, paper quire)
(fols. 58r–v)
Two sequences

AH 54. 245; Chevalier 18051

AH 54. 250; Chevalier 21280

(fols. 58v–63v)
Theological extracts

See printed catalogue for full listing.

4. (fol. 64r, conjoint with fol. 57b)
Jerome, Ad Rusticum monachum (ep. 125) (extract),

15 (ed.: PL 22. 1080–81; ed. I. Hilberg, CSEL 56/1 (21996) 134, ll. 2–5; CPL 620); text slightly different from ed.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper; remnants of a watermark visible at the top centre of fol. 59: the lower part of a chalice, with a stem (?), tilted towards the left. (fols 57b & 64) A parchment slip hooked around the paper quire.
Dimensions (leaf): c.191–95 × 142–44 mm.

Collation

A+B) vii 8 + (2-1). Fols 57b–64 = part B; fol. 65 belongs to fascicle A.

Layout

(fols 57br–v & 64r, parchment slip) Ruling in lead point; one column of 16 or 17 lines. (fol. 64v) no ruling. Ruled space c.65–70 × 113–15 mm.

(fols 58–63, paper quire) Ruling in lead point; one column of 23-24 lines. Ruled space c.155–59 × 116–20 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, likely Mainz Charterhouse, s. xivmed, by several hands: B1) (fol. 57br–v) item 2; B2) (fol. 64r) item 4; B3) (fols 58–63, the whole paper quire) item 3. A few marginal annotations in the text hands, (fols 58r & 63r) two notes in a hand of s. xivex from the Mainz Charterhouse, (fol. 63r).

Decoration

None.

History

Origin: Mid 14th century; Germany, likely Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the head of fol. 58r: ‘Iste liber est domus montis sancti michaelis prope mogunciam ordinis Cartusiensium’.

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. 353–4
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 51

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. 1278–1284

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-10-27: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.