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MS. Laud Misc. 498

Summary Catalogue no.: 1192

Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella, Scala fidei; Epistola Rabbi Samuelis ad Rabbi Isaac de adventu Messiae (tr. Alphonsus Bonihominis). Mainz Charterhouse, A) (fols 1–56) 1388; B) (fols 57–70) s. xv1.

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. 1312–1319. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–56) || B) (fols 57–70)
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ii (17th-cent.) + 70 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves; fol. 71 a paper slip, pasted on fol. 72r.
Foliation: i–ii; 1–73, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

A) i–v 10 | vi 6 ; B) vii 12 | viii 2. Fol. 71 is a paper slip pasted to fol. 72r in the course of the Laudian Binding.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: The present manuscript consists of two parts, which were very likely produced at the Mainz Charterhouse and possibly bound together since the 15th century.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, 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.

MS. Laud Misc. 492 – Part A) (fols 1–56)

Contents

1. (fols 1ra–56ra)
Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella, Scala fidei

With prologue (unpr.; Little 101 (‘Thomas (?) super Symbolum Apost. sive Scala Fidei’); T. Käppeli, ‘La tradizione manoscritta delle opere di Aldobrandino da Toscanella’, AFP 8 (1938) 163–92, at pp. 165–72 (with a complete list of incipits at pp. 167ff.); Kaeppeli 133 (recensio posterior), citing the present MS.; Schneyer 1. 250–52, nos 350–380; Stegmüller, RB, 1105, and suppl.; Zumkeller 335; Distelbrink 197; T. Hohmann, ‘Initienregister der Werke Heinrichs von Langenstein’, Traditio 32 (1976) 399–426, at p. 407 (no. 70); Bloomfield 2210).

Final rubric: (fol. 56ra) [red] Explicit libellus sermocionalis de articulis fidei vel. scala Iacob per quam ascenditur in celum. Finitus et completus in die marie magdalene Anno domini .Mo. CCCo. Lxxxuiijo.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: nisi ad cognitum (fol. 2ra)
Form: codex
Support: paper; watermarks.
Dimensions (leaf): c.188–207 × 146–50 mm.

Collation

i–v 10 | vi 6.

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 29–34 lines without ruling. Ruled space c.155–59 × 111–13 mm.

Hand(s)

textualis, with features of bastarda, very likely written at the Mainz Charterhouse, 1388, by a single hand.

Decoration

(fol. 1ra) Flourished initial in red.

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 1388 ; Germany, written likely at the Mainz Charterhouse, and finished on 22 July 1388 (see the colophon on fol. 56ra).

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: fascicle A lacks any ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse; its make-up, however, suggests that it was produced at the Charterhouse, where it was possibly consolidated with part B, in the 15th century.

MS. Laud Misc. 492 – Part B) (fols 57–70)

Contents

2. (fols 57r–70r)
Samuel Israelita, Epistola contra Iudaeorum errores,

tr. Alfonsus Bonihominis, cap. 1–20 (imperfect), with dedicatory epistle and preface (numerous printed editions, e.g. Hain 14260–14271; ed.: MBVP 18 (Lyon, 1677) 519C–28C (= PL 149. 335A–58D); M. Marsmann, Die Epistel des Rabbi Samuel an Rabbi Isaak. Untersuchung und Edition (Siegen, 1971) 202–374, l. 1; Stegmüller, RB, 1183,1; Kaeppeli 146, citing the present MS.).

Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 71r)

Paper slip pasted to fol. 72r: Obituary of the scholarius ‘Cristofferus Felseysen’. See printed catalogue for full description.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: in Babylonia (fol. 58r)
Form: codex
Support: paper, with rills; watermarks.
Dimensions (leaf): c.198–208 × 140–48 mm.

Collation

vii 12 | viii 2. Fol. 71 is a paper slip pasted to fol. 72r in the course of the Laudian Binding (see item 3).

Layout

(fols 57r–68v) Ruling in ink, one column of c.32–43 unruled lines. (fols 69r–70v) no framing and ruling. Ruled space c.161–65 × 98–103 mm.

Hand(s)

bastarda, very likely Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv1, by one main hand, B1) (fols 57r–68v); the list of chapters on fols 69r–70r and the following note written in a contemporary hand (= hand B2); the last note on fol. 70r–v in a contemporary, very similar hand.

Decoration

(fol. 57r) Flourished initial in red.

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; Germany, written likely at the Mainz Charterhouse.

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 70v: ‘Liber Cartusiensium prope magunciam’ (partially framed, in brown and red ink).

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, col. 358
Quarto Catalogue, col. 359
Quarto Catalogue, p. 566
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. 1312–1319

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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