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MS. Laud Misc. 540

Summary Catalogue no.: 1359

Henry of Lübeck, Quodlibeta. Caesarius of Heisterbach, Libri viii miraculorum. Germany, s. xiv2/4, A) (fols 1–100); B) (fols 101–124).

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. 1414–1424. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Composite: A) (fols 1–100) || B) (101–124)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 124 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: 1–124, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

A) i 8 | ii 12-2 | iii 8 | iv 10 | v 12 | vi 12-2 | vii–ix 10 | x 12; B) xi–xiii 8.

Binding

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

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645: Two fascicles, written in Germany, s. xiv2/4; there is no evidence that parts A & B were already bound together when in the possession of the Charterhouse at Mainz; they were probably put together only in the course of the Laudian binding. Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower centre of fol. 2r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 530 – Part A) (fols 1–100)

Contents

1. (fol. 1r)
Commentary on Wisdom

Imperfect and anonymous. The text has been inserted on the recto of fol. 1, which is not an added flyleaf, but conjoint with fol. 8.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 1va–100vb)
Henricus de Lübeck, Quodlibeta tria

With prologue (partly ed. by F. Mitzka, in Opuscula et Textus, Series Scholastica 11 (Münster, 1932): 2. 4 & 6 and 3. 10; W. Bucichowski, ‘Le principe d’individuation dans la question de Henri de Lubeck “Utrum materia sit principium individuationis”’, Mediaevalia Philosophica Polonorum 21 (1975) 89–113, ed. of 1. 19, at pp. 105–13, this copy at pp. 92f., 103f. & 105–113 (siglum ‘O’, base text)).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: inferius/ si (fol. 3ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (fols 1 & 77) a flaw stitched up with natural-coloured thread; occasional remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes).
Dimensions (leaf): c.227–242 × 164–75 mm.

Collation

i 8 | ii 12-2 | iii 8 | iv 10 | v 12 | vi 12-2 | vii–ix 10 | x 12.

Layout

Ruling (fols 2r ff.) in lead point and in ink, two columns of c.46–60 lines. Ruled space c.193–204 × 122–132 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by several hands. Corrections and marginal annotations in the text hands and in (near-)contemporary hands.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter ; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions A) at the upper margin of fol. 2r: ‘Fratrum Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’ and, in the same hand, at the top left corner of fol. 100v: ‘Cartusiensium est prope mogunciam’, boxed in. Identifiable with G V S in cat. ii.

MS. Laud Misc. 530 – Part B) (fols 101–124)

Contents

3. (fols 101ra–124va)
Caesarius of Heisterbach, Liber octo miraculorum

Abridged version of text varying from edition, with prologue and chapter lists (ed. A. Hilka, Die Wundergeschichten des Caesarius von Heisterbach. Dritter Band, Publikationen der Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde 43 (Bonn, 1937), this copy at pp. 5f. (siglum ‘1c’); Little 197, citing the present MS.; Bloomfield 4615, citing the present MS.).

Most exempla abridged; the arrangement of chapters within bk 2 differs from that of the edition and the list of chapters on fols 112vb–113rb: ?): cap. 1–17; 35–41 (beg.); (end of cap.) 24–34; 18–24 (beg.); (end of cap.) 41–42.

Four additional miracles at the end, edited by A. Hilka, loc. cit., 221f. (cap. 108–111), after this MS.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: et quod ibi (fol. 102ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; made of sheepskin.
Dimensions (leaf): c.237–41 × 165–68 mm.

Collation

xi–xiii 8.

Layout

Ruling in lead point; two columns of c.38–44 lines Ruled space c.174–184 × 123–128 mm.

Hand(s)

German textualis, s. xiv2/4, by a single hand. Titles in upper margins added mainly by one, contemporary hand; occasional marginal corrections and maniculae in a hand of s. xivex/xvin from the Mainz Charterhouse.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter ; Germany

Provenance

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 101r, framed in red: ‘Iste liber est fratrum carthusiensium prope moguntie’.

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).

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. 1414–1424

Last Substantive Revision

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