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MS. Laud Misc. 632

Summary Catalogue no.: 1248

Summa de dignitatibus et virtutibus clericorum et laicorum; Germany, 14th century, second quarter

Contents

(fols. 2r–189v)
Magister Gisilbertus (?), Summa de dignitatibus et virtutibus clericorum et laicorum
Rubric: Summa de dignitatibus et virtutibus clericorum ac laycorum. Et de vitiis et excessibus eorumdem.
Incipit: Incipit tractatus de virtutibus et viciis collectus ex jure canonico et civili de quibus prosequendis servatur ordo qui alias scribitur in canone.
(fols. 2r–43v)
Tractatus de virtutibus et viciis clericorum
(fols. 43v–111r)
Tractatus de uirtutibus et viciis laycorum
(fols. 111r–189v)
Tractatus de penitenciis et remissionibus

For discussion of authorship, see Palmer, pp. 120–121.

Language(s): Latin
(fol. 93e)

A rhyme in German, quoted from Freidank's Bescheidenheit 44,11–12: ‘Man sidit [sic for sihit] leyder selden | truwe mit truwen gelden’

Language(s): Middle High German

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.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 192 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 232 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260 × 175 mm.

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

Origin: 14th century, second quarter or middle (after 1336) ; German

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

Description adapted (October 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 118–123, 251, 293, 297. [author, contents, physical description, decoration, date, origin, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols. (1966–1973) III, p. 54. [decoration]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885. [acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, col. 456
Quarto Catalogue, col. 457
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 53

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.