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MS. Laud Misc. 586

Summary Catalogue no.: 1311

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 1v)

Table of contents, 15th century, listing items 1–3.

2. (fol. 51ra–101ra)
Jacobus de Paradiso, De malo huius saeculi
Colophon: Explicit tractatus de malis huius seculi ... Editus per Jacobum Carthusiensem ... Anno domini Mº.CCCCº.lxiiii. Scriptum est opus illud. Deo laus.
3. (fol. 101rb–112rb)
Jacobus de Paradiso, De arte curandi vitia
4. (fol. 112rb–133rb)
Jacobus de Paradiso, De potestate daemonum
5. (fol. 133va–151vb)
Jacobus de Paradiso, De arcta et lata via

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 151 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 298 × 198 mm.
Dimensions (written): 218 × 138 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 40 lines

Hand(s)

Fols. 2r-101ra: hybrida

Fols. 101rb-151v: textualis

Decoration

Red and blue initials with ornamention and fleuronnée penwork in green and violet, by a flourisher also found in MS. Laud Misc. 260 and Wiesbaden, LB, Hs. 21.

Binding

Laudian binding, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: 1464 – c. 1470 ; Germany, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1464 on fol. 101 is probably the date of writing, rather than the date of the text, and covers fols. 1–101 Fols. 101 col. 2 to 151, with different script and somewhat plainer decoration, may have been written later, but a fifteenth century contents list (fol. 1v) includes items 1–3 above (see Watson).

Attributed to the Eberbach scriptorium (‘probably’) by Palmer.

Identifiable as S 22 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Oct. 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 134–6, 296–7 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 615 [layout, date]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 417–18
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 56

Digital Images

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Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10: Description revised for Polonsky German.