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MS. Laud Misc. 522

Summary Catalogue no.: 1175

Patristic florilegium. Germany (?), s. xiiiin.

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. 1389–1398. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 1r–13v)
Origen, Super epistolam Pauli ad Romanos

Extracts (ed.: PG 14. 1203A–62C; C. P. Hammond, ‘Notes on the manuscripts and editions of Origen’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans in the Latin translation by Rufinus’, JTS 16 (1965) 338–57, this copy at pp. 345 & 350, n. 2).

2. (fols 13v–14v)
Ps.-Augustine, De paenitentia (serm. 393) (ed.: PL 67. 1082B–83B, hom. 19; PL 39. 1713–15, serm. 393; = Caesarius of Arles?, serm. 63)
3. (fols 14v–16v)
Aelred of Rievaulx, Sermones de oneribus

Excerpt from hom. 2. 2–16 (ed.: PL 195. 368A–70D (serm. 3); ed. G. Raciti, CCCM 2D (2005) 31–36; Stegmüller, RB, 942).

Rubric: De generibus visionum
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 16v)
Augustine, Ad inquisitiones Ianuarii (epp. 54–5)

Excerpt from ep. 54, 3 (ed.: PL 33. 201; ed. A. Goldbacher, CSEL 34/2 (1898) 162–163, l. 9; Hauréau, Initia, 2. 70vb; Römer ii/1. 234f.; CPL 262). See also MS. Laud Misc. 514, fols 86v–87r.

Rubric: De discretione communicandi vel celebrandi
Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 17r–44v)
Flores ex libris Ambrosii
Rubric: Incipiunt flores ex libris beati Ambrosii episcopi
5.1. (fols 17r–34r)
Ambrose, Expositio de Psalmo CXVIII

Excerpts, in the range of serm. 1–22 (ed.: PL 15. 1199C–1521A; ed. M. Petschenig & M. Zelzer, CSEL 62, 5 (19992) 5–503; Stegmüller, RB, 1242; CPL 141).

5.2. (fols 34r–44v)
Ambrose, Commentary on Luke

Excerpts, 1–10 (ed.: PL 15. 1539D–1846B; ed. K. Schenkel, CSEL 32, 4 (1902) 20–520; M. Adriaen, CCSL 14 (1957) 14–394; Stegmüller, RB, 1243; PLS 1. 569; CPL 143).

6. (fols 45r–69v)
Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos

Excerpts, in the range of En. 1–60 (ed.: PL 36. 67–728; ed. Stegmüller, RB, 1463, and suppl.; Römer ii/1. 367; ii/2. 279; CCPM 2. 1869a; CPL 283). See printed catalogue for listing of interpolations.

Rubric: Incipiunt flores ex libris beati Augustini episcopi
7. (fols 69v–96v)
Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Summa sententiarum (R.-M. Martin, ‘L’oeuvre théologique de Robert de Melun’, Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 15 (1914) 456–89, at p. 484, citing the present MS.; id., ‘La nécessité de croire au mystère de l’incarnation: témoignages et documents en partie inédits du xiie siècle’, Revue Thomiste, n. s. 3 (1920) 273–80, this copy at p. 277; L. Ott, Untersuchungen zur theologischen Briefliteratur der Frühscholastik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Viktorinerkreises, BGPTM 34 (1937) 535, citing the present MS.; cf. Stegmüller, RS, 745, citing the present MS.).
Language(s): Latin
8. (fol. 97r–v, end flyleaf)

See below.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: possimus reuelato
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of medieval repair (stitching, with plain thread). The fragment at the end (fol. 97) made of sheepskin.
ii (17th-cent.) + 97 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.210–24 × 156–65 mm.
Foliation: i, ii, 1–99, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i–x 8 | xi 8 | xii 8 | xiii 1.

Layout

Ruling (quires i & ii) in lead point and ink, one column of c.31-33 lines. Ruled space c.162–80 × 124–30 mm.

Ruling (quires iii–xii) in lead point or ink, one column of c.21–30 lines. Ruled space c.150–65 × 108–23 mm.

Hand(s)

late protogothic script verging on textualis, possibly German, s. xiiiin, by two main hands, with interruptions: 1) (fols 1r–16v); 2) (fols 17r–54v, l. 13; 55r, l. 11–96v). Numerous marginalia, mostly in the text hands, less frequently in other, contemporary, hands.

Musical Notation:

(fol. 97r) some neums underlined in red.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red, sometimes moderately decorated.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: Early 13th century ; Germany (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r: ‘Liber Carthusiensium maguncie’ and, possibly in the same hand, at the upper margin of fol. 96v: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope magunciam’. Identifiable as F XXV T in cat. ii.

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. 522, endleaf (fol. 97)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

8. (fol. 97r–v, end flyleaf)
Missal (?)

Fragment: part of a leaf from a Missal (?) (fer. 2 post dncam in palmis).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a leaf (25 lines of text preserved)

Hand(s)

Large protogothic.

Musical Notation:

Neums.

Decoration

History

Origin: xii2, ; Germany

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. 377
Quarto Catalogue, p. 568
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 50

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. 1389–1398

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-11-10: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.