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MS. Laud Misc. 736

Summary Catalogue no.: 1231

Bonifatius Mediolanensis; 13th century, second half

Contents

Fol. 1r: see added texts, below. Fol. 1v blank except for ex libris.

(fols. 2r–78v)
Bonifatius Mediolanensis, Recitationes super quartum librum Sententiarum

Stegmüller, Sent. 161,2 (this copy only)

Rubric: Incipit tractatus de sacramentis
Rubric: [later hand] Incipit recitacio fratris bonifacii mediolan(ensis) de ordine minorum super quartum sentenciarum

As far as fol. 39r the text comprises two commentaries generally arranged in two columns of unequal size. The smaller column (the left column on rectos and the right on versos) contains a commentary 'ad litteram'. The larger column contains a more discursive commentary.

Incipit: Memor fui operum domini quia memor ero ab initio ... Nota hic materiam ordinem et fructum iiiior librorum sentenciarum
Rubric: (fol. 3r) Incipit super litteram semper in minori columpna
Incipit: Samaritanus uulnerato Videtur quod pocius debu(it) dicere spoliato
Explicit: ante xiiij quia extunc potest nouere continenciam quia ipse est annorum xxx Luc. iij.
Final rubric: Explicit de ordine
Incipit: Si sacramentum est sacre rei signum sic omnia illa uetera legalia sacrificia vasa loca uestes et huiusmodi essent sacramenta
Explicit: (fol. 38va) in Zacharia .xiij. vbi contra abusores huius pallii et prophetie loquitur dominus per prophetam dicens, In die illa confundentur prophete unusquisque in uisionem cum prophetauit, nec operientur pallio saccino ut menciantur, sed dicet non sum propheta etc.

From fol. 39r the commentary (if it is indeed a single work) comprises a single text arranged in two columns of equal size.

Rubric: (fol. 39r) De institutione coniugii
Incipit: ⟨M⟩atrimonii sacramentum omnium sacramentorum signo dignissimum. Significat enim coniunctionem dei et ecclesie in natura et gratia.
Explicit: (fol. 48r) spirituali et legali, male fecit, non tenet matrimonium. Explicit.
Rubric: (fol. 48v) regule fixe de casibus matrimonii
Incipit: Si contrahat puer uel adultus sponsalia cum aliqua que nundum habeat .vij. annos
Explicit: iniustitiam publice honestatis
Rubric: (fol. 49r) De resurrectione
Incipit: ⟨H⟩omo natus de muliere breui uiuens tempore repletus multis miseriis, qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur et fugit uelut umbra et numquam in eodem statu permanet dum homo est, ideo in adinuentionibus domini, id est sacramentis de quibus supra diximus, exercetur ut cum dei gratia bene uiuens bene moriatur
Explicit: dicamus ergo esse sine fine suplitia dampnatorum sicut et eterna sunt gloriosissima premia beatorum. Amen.
Final rubric: Explicit recitatio fratris bonifatii mediolan(ensis) de ordine minorum super quarto sententiarum. Deo gracias.
Language(s): Latin

Added texts:

(fol. 1)

Mass

Rubric: Incipit missa pro febricitantibus

Added, 14th century.

Language(s): Latin
(fol. 48r)
Hymn (with notation)
Incipit: Exultandi tempus est, Christus nobis natus est \uel manifestatus vel oblatus est/. Homo liber factus est. Conc(en)tus. Venit lex, venit rex, venit fons gratie. Tempus est leticie. V. Iacet in presepio cuius natalicio celum vacat gaudio. R. Venit. V. Ergo nostra concio ligwa cum tripudio benedicamus domino. Deo dicemus gratias. Allelulia. In die nativitatis certum epl's poculi (?).

Cf. AH 20 nos. 170, 63, 69.

Language(s): Latin
(fols. 78v–79r)

Theological notes

Language(s): Latin
(fol. 79r–v)
Sermons (?)
Incipit: ⟨E⟩rat visio discurrens Eze. 1o Karissimi cotidiana nos docet experiencia quod in hac uita miserabili
Incipit: (fol. 79v) ⟨E⟩rat uisio etc. ut supra Dicebatur sacra scriptura in libro sentenciarum contenta
Incipit: ⟨E⟩rat uisio etc. Quamuis hec uerba in principio primi diffusius fuerint introducta
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 80v)
Prayer,

15th or 16th century

Language(s): German

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 80 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 294 × 217 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 157 mm.
Musical Notation:

Neums on staves of four lines.

Decoration

Red and blue initials, mostly not completed.

History

Origin: 13th century, second half

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ‘Liber beate Marie virginis in Eberbach fratris Wernheri de Mynzenberg’ (two separate inscriptions?)

Identifiable as B 10 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 Matthew Holford from the following sources, with additional description of content:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 188, 242, 292, 315 (fragment 35) [contents, physical description, date, 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 German project to incorporate all information in published descriptions.