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MS. Laud Misc. 530

Summary Catalogue no.: 1104

Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de virtutibus, etc. A) (fols 1–223) Northern France/Paris, s. xiii2; B) (fols 224–245) Germany, s. xiv1/4.

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. 1401–1410. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–223) || B) (fols 224–245)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii (17th-cent.) + 245 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i–iii, 1–247, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

A) i–v 16 | vi 6 | vii–xiii 12 | xiv–xvi 16 | xvii 1+(4-1)+1; B) xviii & xix 8 | xx 6. Fol. 223 is a fragment, added as endleaf.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: The book, in its present form, composed of two fascicles of different origins and dates, with a waste leaf added to the end of the first part, is a Laudian production. 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. 530 – Part A) (fols 1–223)

Contents

1. (fols 1ra–222vb)
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de uirtutibus

With (fol. 1ra) list of parts, tractates and chapters and (fol. 3ra) prologue (pr.: GW 12049 & 12050, 12054–12057, etc.; Little 236; Stegmüller, RS, 298,1; cf. 1309; A. Dondaine, ‘Guillaume Peyraut: vie et oeuvres’, AFP 18 (1948) 162–236, at pp. 184–97, this copy at p. 195; Kaeppeli 1622B, citing the present MS.; Mohan 74*; Bloomfield 1628, 5601 & 1066, and suppl.).

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 223r–v, former endleaf)

See below.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: de uirginitate (fol. 2ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; sometimes repaired (stitching, or remnants thereof). (fols 10 & 202) Bookmarks: a parchment strip pulled through two slits in the lower outer margin, and folded. (fol. 222v) The last verso shows remnants of a previous binding (chain-staple mark; it does not match that of the endleaf).
Dimensions (leaf): c.238–43 × 162–68 mm.
Foliation: (fols 3r–127r) contemporary foliation in the ink of the text, in the upper right-hand margin of every recto; (fols 128r–137r) foliation continued in a hand of s. xv in bright brown ink.

Collation

i–v 16 | vi 6 | vii–xiii 12 | xiv–xvi 16 | xvii 1+(4-1)+1. Fol. 223 is a fragment, added as endleaf.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of 44 & 45 lines. Ruled space c.170–79 × 110–23 mm.

Hand(s)

Northern French textualis, s. xiii2, by a single hand. Interlinear and marginal corrections in a contemporary hand; numbering of text parts and chapters by a hand of s. xv, with occasional corrections and note on fol. 222v: ‘xviij Sexterni pretii v. folia.’

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. list, p. 72:

Fleuronnée initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; Northern France/Paris. Possibly a pecia manuscript, see the note on fol. 222v.

MS. Laud Misc. 530 – fol. 223

Contents

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 223r–v, former endleaf of part A)
Calendar

Fragment of a Cistercian calendar, Eberbach, a waste leaf, re-used as end flyleaf. On the recto March, on the verso February.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: One leaf
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 167–70 mm.

Layout

Ruled in lead point, now faded; presumably four columns, the three smaller ones to the left; c.32 & 30 long lines ruled in lead point; the ruled space not exactly determinable.

Hand(s)

Protogothic

Decoration

(fol. 223r) A three-line initial in blue with red fleuronnée decoration (acanthus leaves), (fol. 223v) in red, with decoration in both colours.

Red rubrics, feasts, calendar dates, etc.

History

Origin: s. xii2 ; Germany

Provenance

MS. Laud Misc. 530 – Part B) (fols 224–245)

Contents

3. (fols 224ra–227va)
Treatise on virtues and vices
Rubric: Hic incipit summa de vitiis et virtutibus breuis et utilis et primo de superbia
(Bloomfield 5808, and suppl., citing the present MS.). A brief treatise based on Willelmus Peraldus’ Summa virtutum et vitiorum (item 1).
Language(s): Latin
4. (fols 227va–232va)
Gerardus de Leodio, De doctrina cordis
Rubric: Hic incipit fratris alberti ad quelibet

Short version (ed. Little 172, citing the present MS.; A. Wilmart, ‘Gérard de Liège: un traité inédit de l’amour de Dieu’, RAM 12 (1931) 349–430, a list of MSS at pp. 355ff., n. 13, this copy at p. 356 (no. 35), erroneously referred to as ‘Laud Misc. 520’; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 417, this copy; G. Hendrix, Hugo de Sancto Caro’s traktaat De doctrina cordis, vol. 1: Handschriften, receptie, tekstgeschiedenis en authenticiteitskritiek, Documentaria libraria 16 (Leuven, 1995), siglum ‘O2’, see pp. 10 & 72). Text also attributed to Hugh of St.-Cher. See also MS. Laud Misc. 208, fols 30ra–31vb.

Language(s): Latin
5. (fols 232va–233ra)
Theological treatise (De comparatione decem plagarum Aegypti ad decem praecepta )

(Bloomfield 5105, citing the present MS.; see also 5323, and suppl.).

Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 233ra)
Theological treatise (De octo beatitudinibus)
Language(s): Latin
7. (fol. 233ra–rb)
Theological treatise (De ordine petitionum)
Language(s): Latin
8. (fol. 233rb)
Theological treatise (Septem causae brevitatis orationis dominicae)

(cf. Bloomfield 9111; Stegmüller, RB, 11425).

Language(s): Latin
9. (fols 233rb–234va)
Commentary on Pater noster (cf. Stegmüller, RB, 4839,6).
Language(s): Latin
10. (fols 234va–245rb)
Patristic extracts
Rubric: Incipiunt auctoritates sanctorum
(Bloomfield suppl. 1741a): excerpts from Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Gregory the Great, etc. (fol. 245rb) Notes on the authorship of the Ps.-Augustinian De spiritu et anima, in a hand of s. xv, from the Mainz Charterhouse.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: -cionem huius (fol. 225ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.227–33 × 165–68 mm.
Foliation: (fols 235r–245r) at the upper right-hand margin of rectos the lower-case roman numerals 1–11 (purpose not clear), in a hand of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse, in the same ink as items 10 (notes at the end) & 11.

Collation

xviii & xix 8 | xx 6.

Layout

Ruling in ink, two columns of 37–40 lines. Ruled space c.180–83 × 122–26 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv1/4, a single scribe. Marginal annotations and additional texts (fols 245rb & 245v (items 10 & 11) in Carthusian hands from Mainz, s. xv.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. list, p. 72:

(fol. 224ra) Fleuronnée initial in blue with red decoration.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, first quarter ; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the head of 245v: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’. MS. Laud Misc. 530 (B) is identifiable as A XIII Qr in cat. ii.

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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 386
Quarto Catalogue, col. 387
Quarto Catalogue, p. 569
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 47

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. 1401–1410

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-11-12: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.