MS. Laud Misc. 493
Summary Catalogue no.: 1205
Theological treatises, meditations and extracts. Germany, s. xiv 2/4.
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. 1287–1310. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Abridged text (pr.: GW 3905–08; 4023–42; ed.: PL 184. 485A–508B; see also PL 177. 165 (Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor, De anima, 1); Glorieux, Migne, 71; Leclercq, Études, 12; Bloomfield 3126, and suppl.).
Variant text with De quindecim signis diei iudicii (ed.: PL 94. 555B–D; Gerhardt & Palmer, Fünfzehn Zeichen, 61, ll. 2–19; – BHM 652).
Ed. J. Leclercq, ‘Prédicateurs bénédictins au XIe et XIIe siècles’, Revue Mabillon 33 (1943) 48–73, at pp. 63–64, l. 70; Schneyer 2. 457. 2.
With preface (pr.: GW 3906 (Ps.-Bernhard), etc.; ed.: PL 94. 561C–68C; Hauréau, Notices et extraits, 6. 175, this copy; Hauréau, Initia, 6. 105ra–va, this copy at col. 105va; Kemper, Kreuzigung Christi, 70–72, citing the present MS. at pp. 70f.).
(fol. 15v, ll. 36ff.) Verses, and an excerpt.With prologue (ed.: PL 176. 969D–76D; ed. H. B. Feiss & P. Sicard, L’oeuvre de Hugues de Saint-Victor 1, Sous la règle de Saint Augustin 3 (Turnhout, 1997) 182–201; Bloomfield 5509, 5977 and suppl.).
A poem on mystical love (ed.: AH 15. 226; ed. A. Barratt, ‘A medieval latin manuscript in the Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand’, Manuscripta 30 (1986) 199–204, at pp. 201–04;Chevalier 1005; Hauréau, Notices et extraits, 6. 178; Walther, IC, 931; Hauréau, Initia, 1. 71ra).
(fol. 28r) the poem is followed by an excerpt from Ps.-Anselm of Canterbury.Bk. ii, Formula de interioris hominis reformatione ad proficientes (ed.: Quaracchi (1899) 64–160; – Little 122, citing the present MS.; Distelbrink 100; Mohan 203*, this copy; Bloomfield 2655 & 4155 (and suppl.), citing the present MS.).
Bk. i, p. 1, Formula novitiorum (ed.: Quaracchi (1899) 1–36; Little 69 & 175; Distelbrink 145; Mohan 100*; Bloomfield 4155, citing the present MS., and suppl.).
= Ecbertus Schonaugiensis, Stimulus amoris (pr.: GW 2039 & GW 3907–08; ed.: PL 158. 748C–61B; 184. 953D–64D; Glorieux, Migne, 62 & 72; Distelbrink 212; Mohan 221*; Bestul, Passion, 188, no. 10).
Extracts (ed.: PL 76. 903D–04C & 962A–D; ed. M. Adriaen, CCSL 142 (1971) 165f. & 242f.; Stegmüller, RB, 2643, and suppl.; CPPM 2. 2288; CPL 1710).
Extracts with with lemmata Mt 5:3, 5:5, 5:4, 5:6–9, from Heiric of Auxerre, Ambrose, Bede, Leo the Great and Haimo of Halberstadt.
tr. Rufinus of Aquileia, 7: De Apollonio (ed.: PL 21. 417B–C; 418D–19A; 412B & C; ed. E. Schulz-Flügel, in Patristische Texte und Studien 34 (Berlin & New York, 1990) 301, 304f. & 290f.; BHL 6524; CPG 3. 5620).
Extract from Ep. 109, Contra Vigilantium ad Riparium et Desiderium presbyteros (ed.: PL 23. 351B–52A; – BHM 253; CPL 611).
Extracts from Ep. 14.10 (ed.: PL 22. 353–54; ed. I. Hilberg, CSEL 54 (²1996) 59, l. 13–60; BHM 14; CPL 620) and 22 (ed.: PL 22. 398–99, 404 & 417; ed. I. Hilberg, CSEL 54 (²1996) 152, l. 5–155; 192; 165, l. 14; BHM 22; CPL 620).
On the penitence of Solomon. Composed of short extracts from Jerome, Ambrose and the Psalms. Identical with De paenitentia regum (ed. H. Böhmer, MGH Libelli 3 (1897) 609f.; cf. also the variant version edited by U.-R. Blumenthal in Manuscripta 22 (1978) 91–96, at pp. 94–96).
The present manuscript preserves the ‘Regensburg version’, named after Munich, BSB, Clm 14442 from Regensburg, the oldest surviving copy (before 1150; ed. W. Meyer, Die Geschichte des Kreuzholzes vor Christus, ABAW, phil.-hist. Kl., Jg. 16, H. 2 (Munich, 1882), 106).
Text imperfect (ed.: PL 64. 1311A–13B; ed. C. Moreschini (Leipzig, 2005) 186–192, l. 129; – CPL 892).
Attributed to Alan of Lille (pr.: GW 4648, etc.; ed.: PL 210. 273A–80C; Hauréau, Notices et extraits, 3. 275 & 5. 253–56; SBonO 10 (1902) 23f., no. 34; Little 173, this copy; Glorieux, Rép., 305ct; Stegmüller, RB, 949, and suppl.; Glorieux, Arts, 12p; Distelbrink 111; Mohan 293*; Bloomfield 4054, 4055 (this copy), and suppl.; cf. 357, and suppl.).
(fol. 81v) A half-page illustration of a six-winged cherub in red ink: the wings carry titles, the feathers are inscribed in the ink of the text.Extract = Dialogus inter carnem et animam (Bloomfield 691), 13 (ed.: Quaracchi, 2, 1949, 62–66; Distelbrink 219).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in ink, one column of typically 37 lines. Ruled space c.156–60 × 94–97 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand, below top line. Marginal annotations by the scribe, contemporary to 15th-cent. hands.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication
Two schematic figures on fols 81v (Cherub, item 26) & 85r (Arbor amoris, item 27) in red and the ink of the text.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the lower margin of fol. 2r: ‘Liber Carthusiensium prope magunciam.’ (boxed in) and, in the same hand, at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 86v: ‘Codex cartusiensium maguncie’. MS. Laud Misc. 493 is one of three Laudiani from the Mainz Charterhouse to preserve an old, 15th-cent., shelfmark: ‘C xviij S’, at the lower centre of fol. 2r. In the library, the present MS. was stored together with the items of subject C (containing Church Fathers and doctores ...) as no. 18 in the shelf belonging to the category S(ecundus) of desk C.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. 1v.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-10-06: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.