MS. Laud Misc. 632
Summary Catalogue no.: 1248
Summa de dignitatibus et virtutibus clericorum et laicorum; Germany, 14th century, second quarter
Contents
For discussion of authorship, see Palmer, pp. 120–121.
A rhyme in German, quoted from Freidank's Bescheidenheit 44,11–12: ‘Man sidit [sic for sihit] leyder selden | truwe mit truwen gelden’
Extensively glossed and annotated in several hands, one the same as the gloss to MS. Laud Misc. 307, fols. 1r-12r.
The annotation extends to fols. 1r-v and 191r-192b verso. Fol. 1r begins with (separate?) questions on the incarnation.
Physical Description
Decoration
Miniatures in the margins: Pope Clement II crowns Henry III as Holy Roman Emperor in 1046, f. 44r; Donation of Constantine 44v; Pope Innocent IV excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II 45r, 85r. Miniature of a kneeling monk 'Gisilbertus' offering a book to the Virgin and Child, fol. 88r.
Initials in red and blue.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Gloss probably added in Eberbach.
Identifiable as R 20 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-10-03: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.