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MS. Laud Misc. 631

Summary Catalogue no.: 1393

Defensor, Liber scintillarum; Germany, 13th century, fourth quarter

(fols. 1r–32v)

Rubric: Incipit liber Scintillarum de diversis voluminibus. In primis de carita(te).

Incipit: Dominus dicit in ewangelio. Maiorem caritatem nemo habet quam ut animam suam ponat quis pro amicis suis.

Explicit: gaudeat quod talem habuerit

Fifty-four chapters, differing in order from the printed editions; ending with De filiis (c. 56/57) (PL 88.687–8), followed by an additional sentence: 'Triplex est filius, Filius Dei, filius hominis, filius diaboli. Filius Dei est qui semper bona agit aque reddit bonum de malo; filius hominis est, qui bonum reddit pro bono, malum pro malo; filius diaboli est qui semper mala agit, que malum reddit pro bono.'

Another hand has added a chapter list with folio references; same hand has added folio numbers in Roman numerals.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 32 + ii leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 287 × 205 mm.

Dimensions (written): 203 × 143 mm.

Layout

Written in two columns, 39–41 lines.

Hand(s)

Textualis formata by one hand.

Decoration

Two-line red-and-blue puzzle initial, fol. 1.

Two-line red initials at the beginning of chapters.

Binding

Limp vellum binding.

History

Origin: 13th century, fourth quarter ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?): possibly identifiable as F 15 (part 2) in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502 (Palmer, p. 237: 'Item liber scintillarum de charitate Initium In diuinis voluminibus refertur').

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen and Matthew Holford (May 2020) from the following sources (with additional description of the contents, layout, script and decoration):

Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 237, 297 [physical description, date, provenance]

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [origin, contents, acquisition, binding]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 456

Quarto Catalogue, p. 575

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 60