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.
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).
Excerpt from hom. 2. 2–16 (ed.: PL 195. 368A–70D (serm. 3); ed. G. Raciti, CCCM 2D (2005) 31–36; Stegmüller, RB, 942).
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.
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).
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).
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.
See below.
Physical Description
Collation
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.
(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
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
Fragment: part of a leaf from a Missal (?) (fer. 2 post dncam in palmis).
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Large protogothic.
Neums.
Decoration
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-11-10: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.