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MS. Laud Misc. 738

Summary Catalogue no.: 1240

Theological miscellany. Southern France, s. xivin.

Contents

Language(s): Latin

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1501–1509. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fols 1ra–66rb)
Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum

With prologue and list of chapter titles (ed.: PL 102. 593C–690A; W. Witters, ‘Smaragde au moyen âge: la diffusion de ses écrits d’après la tradition manuscrite’, in Études ligériennes d’histoire et d’archéologie médiévales: mémoires et exposés présentés à la Semaine d’études médiévales de Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire du 3 au 10 juillet 1969, ed. R. Louis, Société des fouilles archéologiques et des monuments historiques de l’Yonne. Cahiers d’archéologie et d’histoire 4 (Auxerre, 1975) 361–76, esp. pp. 364f. & 367–70; this copy at p. 368, n. 85 (p. 375); Bloomfield 2456, and suppl.).

2. (fols 66rb–122va)
Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum (ed.: PL 88. 599B–716D; ed. H.-M. Rochais, CCSL 117 (1957) 1–233; id., SChr 77 (1961) 52–415 & SChr 86 (1962) 8–317).
3. (fols 123ra–187vb)
Liber synodalis, diocese of Rouergue (ed. . E. Martène & U. Durand, in Thesaurus novus anecdotorum, vol. 4 (Paris, 1717; repr. Farnborough, 1969) 673–769, under the title ‘Statuta synodalia Cadurcensis, Ruthenensis et Tutelensis ecclesiarum’, ‘Statuta synodalia ecclesiæ Ruthenensis’, only up to cap. 17, the rest not included in ed.; P. Johanek, ‘Die Pariser Statuten des Bischofs Odo von Sully und die Anfänge der kirchlichen Statutengesetzgebung in Deutschland’, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Medieval Canon Law. Cambridge, 23–27 July 1984, ed. P. Linehan, Monumenta iuris canonici. Series C: Subsidia 8 (Vatican City, 1988) 327–47, at p. 328, citing the present MS. at (n. 7)). (fol. 187va–vb) immediately following: Form of absolution and prayer.
4. (fols 187vb–198vb)
Hugh of Saint-Cher, Expositio missae

Text followed by appendix (De horis canonicis) and list of chapter titles, imperfect (ed.: G. Sölch, in Opuscula et textus ... illustrantia. Series liturgica 9 (Münster, 1940), incl. appendix; Franz, Messe, 474f.; Little 72; Glorieux, Rép., 2aw; G. Sölch, Hugo von St. Cher O. P. und die Anfänge der Dominikanerliturgie. Eine liturgiegeschichtliche Untersuchung zum ‘Speculum ecclesiae’ (Cologne, 1938); Schneyer, Wegweiser, 342; Hauréau, Initia, 2. 41rb–va; Kaeppeli 1990, citing the present MS.; Bloomfield 1589, and suppl.). See also MSS Laud Misc. 75, fols 34ra–38rb and Laud Misc. 203, fols 71r–76v.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: in desiderio (fol. 3ra)
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of with medieval repairs (stitching, with a natural-coloured thread).
Extent: 199 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.270–73 × 175–87 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–199, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil. Contemporary foliation 1, 9–198, in red roman numerals, at the upper right-hand portion of rectos. This foliation was probably replacing another one: on fols 12r (= (ed.) cap. 12 of item 1)–122r and again on fols 123r–198r there are guides inserted in roman numerals, 88–198 & 1–76.

Collation

i 1+8 | ii–x 12 | xi 6 | xii–xvii 12 | xviii 8-4.

Layout

Ruling in both ink and lead point, two columns of 34 lines. Ruled space c.185–91 × 124–30 mm.

Hand(s)

Southern French textualis formata (rotunda), s. xivin, by two hands: 1) (fols 1ra–8vb (= quire i)); 2) (fols 9ra–198vb). Marginalia in the text hands and in (near-)contemporary hands, occasionally maniculae.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 584:

Good borders.

Historiated initial 'N' in pink, blue and white with illuminated scene of a monk preaching beside an open book on a pult (fol. 1ra).

Decorated initials with foliate design in gold, red, pink, blue, green and white (fols 2va, 66vb, 123ra, 178vb, 185ra, 187vb & 198rb).

Flourished initials in red and blue.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Rubrication.

Binding

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

History

Origin: Early 14th century ; France, South

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 122v: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Carthusiensium prope magunciam’. Identifiable as D XII S in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 523–4
Quarto Catalogue, p. 583
Quarto Catalogue, p. 584
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 53

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1501–1509

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-11-17: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.