A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Misc. 727

Summary Catalogue no.: 989

Jean Gerson; Germany (Eberbach), 15th century, middle

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. (fols. 2r–135v)
Jean Gerson, Collectorium super Magnificat
Incipit: Collectorium super magnificat particulas habet expositas
Rubric: (fol. 2v) Sequitur prohemium super tractatibus […]
Rubric: (fol. 3r) Sequitur primus tractatus dragmaticus super Magnificat magistri Johannis Grason cancellarii Parisiensis habens notulas quinquaginta.
Final rubric: Explicit liber super Cantico beatissime virginis Marie compilatus per venerabilem et eximium doctorem magistrum Johannem Gerson, cancellarium Parisiensem.
2. (fols. 136r–184r)
Jean Gerson, Monotessaron
Rubric: Prohemium seu prologus in concordancias evangelistarum collectas per venerabilem magistrum Johannem Gersen cancellarium Parisiensem quas intitulavit Monotesseron aut Unum ex Quatuor.
Incipit: Ewangelium latum esse et magnum
Rubric: (fol. 137r) Item prologus
Incipit: Ewangelicos canones composuit
Rubric: (fol. 137v) Prohemium super vnum de quatuor cuius tytulus esse potest tetramonum uel monotesseron
Incipit: Unum ex quatuor ewangeliis componere
(fols. 138r–140v)
Table of contents
Incipit: In principio erat verbum
Explicit: eos qui scribendi sunt libros
(fols. 182v–184r)
Incipit: Uerbum mutus aue montana puer liber ortus
Explicit: et inde resurgit
Incipit: Octa beant lux lex
Explicit: tingite signis
⟨Rubricellae concordantiae evangelistarum⟩ (Stegmüller, Bibl. 4486,1)
3. (fols. 184v–187(a)r; 187(a)v–187(f)v blank)
⟨Paulus de Burgos⟩, ⟨Additiones ad postillam Nicolai de Lyra⟩ (extract, additio to Mt. 26, on Easter)
Incipit: Ad declaracionem temporis cene Domini circa quod non solum inter Grecos et Latinos sed eciam inter sanctos doctores diuersitas non modica invenitur olim quandam formaui questionem quam in hoc loco superaddere decreui. Cuius tenor talis est, utrum quinta feria in qua christus cum discipulis pascha manducauit fuit xiiij luna primi mensis
Explicit: pro humana salute perficeret. Quam nobis concedat […]
Rubric: (fol. 187a recto) Item in eodum capitulo vbi dicitur in postillis Nycolai de lira. Et ymno dicto id est cantico diuine laudis dicto etc.
Incipit: Quis sit iste ymnus non declaratur certe
Explicit: remittentes publice consuedtudini

As in Stadtarchiv Köln, Hs. 220, fols. 58r-60v.

4. (fols. 188r–221(a)v)
Jean Gerson, De mystica theologia
Rubric: Incipiunt consideraciones siue libelli venerabilis ac egregii sacre theologie professoris magistri Johannis Gerson de mistica theologica cancellarii ecclesie Parisiensis
Incipit: Penitemini credite ewa⟨n⟩gelio Marc. 1. Astrinxit me
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus eximii doctoris magistri Johannis Gerson de Mistica theologia practice conscripta.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
Extent: 228 leaves (fol. 187 numbered a-f, fol. 221 numbered a-c)
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 192 × 137 mm.

Decoration

Red initials, with foliate decoration at the beginning of the manuscript.

Binding

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

Former chained binding.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Germany, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Probably from the Eberbach scriptorium (Palmer, p. 297).

Possibly the same as Collectarium super magnificat, mentioned in the book list of Johannes Sachs in Eberbach's property in Kiedrich in 1494 (Palmer, p. 297; see J. Staab, 'Zwei Bibliotheken in Kiedrich aus der Zeit der Erfindung der Buchdrukkerkunst', in Nassauische Annalen 105 (1994) 79–101, at p. 84).

Eberbach ex libris, 15th century (fols. 187(a)r, 221(a)v)

Identifiable as S 2 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 (November 2019) by Tuija Ainonen and Matthew Holford from the following sources, with additional description of items 2 and 3:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 251, 297 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2019-11-14: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.