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MS. Laud Misc. 574

Summary Catalogue no.: 1241

William de Lanicea, Diaeta salutis, Distinctiones e tractatu ‘Diaeta salutis’; Nicholaus de Hanapis, Liber de exemplis sacrae scripturae. France (Paris?), c.1321.

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. 1436–1443. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1.1. (fols 1ra–37vb)

William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis

With prologue, and appendix (see item 1.2) (pr. among the works of Bonaventure: GW 4720–4735, this copy compared with GW 4732; ed. Little 104; Glorieux, Rép., 305dd; Schneyer, Beobachtungen, 35; Distelbrink 124; Mohan 169*; Bloomfield 2301, and suppl.; B.-G. Guyot, ‘La “Dieta salutis” et Jean Rigaud’, AFH 82 (1989) 360–93, this copy at p. 381).

1.2. (fols 37vb–41vb)

William de Lanicea, Themata (printed among the works of Bonaventure, subsequent to the Diaeta salutis (see above); Little 3; Schneyer, Beobachtungen, 35; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 4; Schneyer 2. 472–75, nos 1–63; Mohan 4*f.; Bloomfield 77, and suppl.; B.-G. Guyot, loc. cit., 376f.).

1.3. (fols 41vb–45vb)

Tables

‘Magna tabula’ of the Diaeta salutis; occasional additions/corrections in hands of s. xv from the Charterhouse, in darker ink.

(fol. 45vb) a Carthusian hand of s. xv inserted a note at the end of the table, with manicula.

2. (fols 46ra–105ra)

Nicholaus de Hanapis, Liber de exemplis sacrae scripturae

Pr. as a work of Bonaventure: Venice, c.1480 (Goff B850); Hain 3501–3503, etc.; Glorieux, Rép., 305dc; Stegmüller, RB, 5815; Thorndike & Kibre 272; Distelbrink 64; Mohan 431*; Bloomfield 1006, and suppl., see also 2091, 5978, and 6301 (and suppl.); Kaeppeli 3094, citing the present MS

(fol. 46ra) list of chapter titles, in alphabetical order, and numbered. (fol. 47ra) list of chapter titles, in order and numbered.

Colophon: (fol. 105ra) Explicit liber de exemplis sacre scripture compositus a fratre nicholao de hanapis ordinis predicatorum. patriarcha Ierosolitano [recte: Ierosolomitano]. Anno domini .Mo. cccxxi. fuit scriptum istud exemplar. et corruptum [recte: correctum] crastina die circumcisionis domini [Below, traces of erased script, in red ink.]

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: aufert et recuperat

Form: codex

Support: parchment; medieval repair (stitching, with plain thread), or remnants thereof. A (German?) spider squashed between fols 14v/15r. (fols 1r & 105v) Rust marks at the top right corner, from corner bosses of a previous binding.

i (17th-cent.) + 105 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): c.267–72 × 198–202 mm.

Foliation: i, 1–105, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i–viii 12 | ix 12-3.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of c.49–51 lines. Ruled space c.188–94 × 138–43 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis, c.1321, by a single hand. Interlinear and marginal corrections and annotations by hands of s. xv from the Mainz Charterhouse; a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse, s. xv, added in the upper left-hand margin of fol. 45v ‘A principio vsque hic sunt .xlv. folia.’; in the top right corner of fol. 47r: ‘ab hinc usque ad finem sunt .Lviij. folia.’ and fol. 55r ‘ab isto usque ad finem .L. folia.’

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 1321 ; France, Paris. The colophon on fol. 105ra indicates that the book was completed in 1321 (a date which is palaeographically acceptable) and corrected on 2 January of the following year. Another Hanapis manuscript, however, which appears to have been produced along with this copy, Troyes, BM, Ms. 1360, has exactly the same colophon on fol. 182r (for a discussion, see J. Destrez & G. Fink-Errera, ‘Des manuscrits apparemment datés’, Scriptorium 12 (1958), 56–93, at pp. 78–83). It appears likely that the date of completion actually refers to the exemplar of both books, and that it was copied mechanically; hence the dating ‘c.1321’.

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription inserted on the two bottom lines of fol. 105ra: ‘Iste liber est domus montis sancti michaelis prope magunciam / ordinis Cartusi[...].’ The rest of the line and a further line of text below erased. The hand of this inscription is not identical with the ex-libris hands seen in other Laudiani from the Charterhouse. Identifiable as F XXII 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.

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, cols. 411–12

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 53

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 614

Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1436–1443

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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