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MS. Laud Misc. 499

Summary Catalogue no.: 939

Peter of Poitiers, Distinctiones super Psalterium. France, s. xiii2.

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. 1322–1327. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1.

Binding fragment: see below

2. (fols 1r–88v)
Peter of Poitiers, Distinctiones super Psalterium

With prologue (unpr.; Glorieux, Rép., 100c, this copy; Landgraf, Einführung, 105f., this copy at p. 105; Stegmüller, RB, 6783, this copy, and suppl.; P. S. Moore, The works of Peter of Poitiers, master in theology and chancellor of Paris (1193–1205), PMS 1 (1936) 78–96, listing the present MS. at p. 85, among 13th-cent. copies containing the ‘continuous’ text).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: christo omnia
Form: codex
Support: parchment; occasionally with repairs (stitching preserved on fols 11, 70, 82 & 84; stitching holes on fol. 77). The leaves may vary in size. Two bookmarks made of black-coloured thread, horizontally sewn into the outer margins of fols 39 & 47.
iii (17th-cent.) + 88 + iii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.190–95 × 141–45 mm.
Foliation: i–iii, 1–91, in modern (19th-cent) pencil.

Collation

i–xi 8.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, mostly five columns of varying size, of 39 or 40 lines of text per page. Ruled space c.145–58 × 132–35 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis, s. xiii2, by a single hand, above top line. Corrections and annotations in the text hand and in contemporary French hands; the hand of s. xvin correcting on fol. 1r is German, presumably from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

(fol. 1r) Coloured initial in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 13th century, second half; France

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 1r and near the centre of fol. 88v (same hand): ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: 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. 499 - binding fragments

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos

Fragment used as binding strips at beginning and end of volume (ed.: Stegmüller, RB, 1463; CPPM 2. 1869a; CPL 283). For full description see printed catalogue.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Layout

Ruled in hard point, two columns.

Hand(s)

Protogothic script.

History

Origin: s. xii1 ; England

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. 359
Quarto Catalogue, p. 566
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. 1322–1327

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-10-29: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.