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MS. Laud Misc. 584

Summary Catalogue no.: 826

Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus s. Augustini (selection). Germany, Mainz (?), s. ix3/4.

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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. 1445–1456. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1r–133r)
Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus S. Augustini

A selection of Eugippius’ Excerpta, consisting of 118 chapters (one has been omitted), starting with Augustine, Epistula ad Consentium (ep. 120) and closing with Augustine, serm. 350.

(ed.: PL 62. 897C–1088; ed. P. Knöll, CSEL 9, 1 (1885), the present MS. cited, see p. xxxi (no. 7); Stegmüller, RB, 2266; Römer ii/1. 348; ii/2. 279; M. M. Gorman, ‘The manuscript tradition of Eugippius’ “Excerpta ex operibus sancti Augustini”’, RB 92 (1982) 7–32 & 229–65, esp. pp. 255–61, this copy at p. 258 (= Gorman, Manuscript traditions, 131–67, at p. 160); CPPM 2. 693, citing this copy; CPL 676). For full text listing of correspondences between present ms., PL and CSEL, see printed catalogue.

(fol. 1r) list of chapter titles.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: ab inuisibilibus (fol. 5r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; (quires i, vii–x, xii & xviii) calf, the rest sheepskin. Parchment slip (c.229–36 × 81–87 mm) inserted between fols 25/26 (quire iv); (fol. 133v) a very small rust mark near the outer centre, probably from a catch or anchor plate of a former binding.
ii (17th-cent.) + 134 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c. 281–86 × 200–07 mm.
Foliation: i–iii, 1–135, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i–vii 8 | viii 8-1 | ix 6 | x–xiii 8 | xiv 6 | xv–xvii 8 | xviii 4-1. Binding error: quire xiii (originally quire xvi) erroneously inserted between quires xii & xiv (originally quires xii & xiii).

Layout

Ruling in hard point, one column of c.31 or 32 lines. Ruled space c.199–217 × 134–45 mm.

Hand(s)

German Carolingian minuscule, Mainz (?), s. ix3/4, several hands. Occasional corrections and additions, mostly in the text hands, occasionally in other, contemporary, hands. The hand writing on fols 69r–90v, l. 16 writes a minuscule reminiscent of the minuscule attested for Mainz at this period, cf. Mairhofer, MSS Würzburg, 574f., and fig. 93 (p. 582).

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 9th century, third quarter. ; Germany, Mainz (?).

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right-hand corner of fol. 1r (following the header in a different hand): ‘Codex Carthusiensium maguncie’, and, possibly in the same hand, at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 133v: ‘Iste liber pertinet ad carthusienses prope magunciam’. MS. Laud Misc. 584 is the oldest surviving manuscript from the Mainz Charterhouse.

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, col. 417
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 35

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. 1445–1456

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-11-13: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.