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MS. Laud Misc. 80

Summary Catalogue no.: 866

Theological composite manuscript, France; A) (fols. 1–22) s. xiii2 || B) (fols. 23–96a) s. xiii2 || C) (fols. 97–116) s. xivin || D) (fols. 117–204) s. xiii2

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–22 || fols. 23–96a || fols. 97–116 || fols. 117–204
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 319–334. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Secundo Folio: Sed alter (fol. 2r)
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii (17th-cent.) + 206 + iii (17th-cent.) leaves
Foliation: i-iii, 1-207 (no. 96 trebled: the paper bifolium 96b & 96c foliated in a different hand, which also changed the original fol. 96 to 96a; the endleaves in a different (20th-cent.) hand, the penultimate leaf ignored, the numbering of the last two folios corrected by the cataloguer.)

Binding

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

History

Origin: France

Provenance and Acquisition

A book consisting of four parts, all of which were, to judge from script, parchment and style, produced in France; parts A & B, which share quire signatures, were presumably consolidated with parts C & D only in the course of the Laudian binding.

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

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

MS. Laud Misc. 80 - part A (fols. 1-22)

Contents

1. (fols 1r–20v)
Otto of Lucca (?) (Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Victor), Summa sententiarum, with preface
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 16r) tract. vi, cap. 10–15 missing. (fol. 16ra, l. 45–va, l. 32) A different text, split into three sections, inserted instead: [GRATIAN, Decretum], pars iii., dist. 2, c. 69, 51 & 70 (ed.: PL 187. 1763C–66B; 1755B–56A; 1766B–C; Friedberg 1. 1339f., 1332f. & 1341).

The missing chapters added at the end of the Summa, on fols. 19v–20v.

Ed.: PL 176. 41–174A; PL 171. 1067A–1150B (Hildebert of Lavardin, Tractatus theologicus, prol., cap. 1–41 = Summa Sententiarum i–iv, cap. 3); - Grabmann, Geschichte, 2. 253f.; M. Chossat, La Somme des Sentences: œuvre de Hugues de Mortagne vers 1155, SSL 5 (1923); Glorieux, Migne, 68; Glorieux, Théol., 137g (Ps.-Odo of Châteauroux; Hugues de Mortagne), this copy; Stegmüller 837 (Odo of Lucca?), citing the present MS. (incorrect folio no.); R. Baron, ‘Note sur l’énigmatique “Summa Sententiarum”’, RThAM 25 (1958) 26–41; O. Lottin, ‘A propos des sources de la “Summa Sententiarum”’, RThAM 25 (1958) 42–58; Goy, Überlieferung Hugos, 486f.; Bloomfield 1369, and suppl.
2. (fols. 20v–21a)
Hugh of St.-Victor, Sermo super dominicam orationem
Language(s): Latin

Items 2 & 3 are not really treated as separate items, and were probably considered to be a continuation of item 1.

Ed.: PL 177. 561C–63B (Hugh of Saint-Victor?, Miscellanea, 1. 169); Stegmüller 3854 (Hugh of Saint-Victor, Miscellanea); Glorieux, Migne, 70; Schneyer 2. 801. 237; Bloomfield 8760; D. Van den Eynde, ‘Le Liber magistri Hugonis’, Franciscan Studies 23 (1963) 268–99, at p. 272 (no. 19)
3. (fols. 21r–22r)
Hugh of St.-Victor, De quinque septenis
Language(s): Latin

Items 2 & 3 are not really treated as separate items, and were probably considered to be a continuation of item 1.

Ed.: PL 175. 405B–10C (cap. 1–4); ed. R. Baron, Six opuscules spirituels, SChr 155 (1969) 100–119; ed. CCCM in preparation; – Stegmüller 3849, citing the present MS., and suppl.; Goy, Überlieferung Hugos, 368–83, citing the present MS. at p. 376 (no. 55), incorrect folio no.; Bloomfield 4833, citing the present MS., and suppl.; 8999).
4. (fol. 22r–v)
Formulas for Pontifical and Private Letters
Incipit: Gregorius episcopus seruus seruorum dei. venerabili fratri · · Episcopo et dilectis filiis · · Decano et Capitulo Eng. Salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Cum digni sint gratia
Explicit: cui de litterarum scientia et honestate morum testimonium laudabile perhibetur.
Incipit: Gregorius. et cetera . . Episcopo pictaviensi . Salutem . et cetera Eterna prouidencia conditoris sanctam et immaculatam ecclesiam. a sue fundaccionis[sic] exordio
Explicit: Datum apud Criptam ferratam. V Idus augusti pontificatus nostri anno. Quarto[?]decimo.
Incipit: Rvdes et insolentes qui nequiunt propter ingenium imbercille[sic] salutaciones in suis epistolis ordinare. In vij. capitulis que inferius distringam legant
Explicit: et Imperatores se debeant ad imperium salutare. et ipsi suos salutant inferiores. et e contrario.
Incipit: ¶ Pater sic salutat filium. A. genitor suo dilecto filio B. Salutem et paternam benediccionem uel omne bonum. uel cum sincere dileccionis affectu. uel in prosperis successionibus habundare
Explicit: humiliter deprecor.¶ obsecro confidenter.¶ exoro supplex.¶ Imploro securiter.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.241–50 × 177–81 mm.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, two columns of c.56–66 lines, below top line. Ruled space c.190–202 × 123–30 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis by one main scribe (similar to that of part B).

Decoration

Initials in red, occasionally touched with yellow, or flourished in the ink of the text.

Rubrication by the scribe

Binding

Rust stains on the first few leaves, presumably from former binding furniture.

History

Origin: France; s. xiii2 (Judging by the script.)

Provenance

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper right-hand margin of fol. 1r. Identifiable as E XXIII S in cat. ii.

MS. Laud Misc. 80 - part B (fols. 23–96a)

Contents

5. (fols. 24r–95v)
Prevostin of Cremona, Summa de quaestionibus theologicis
Language(s): Latin

Incomplete: 1–3, and part of 4. Fol. 23r-v blank.

Ed. G. Angelini, L’ortodossia e la grammatica: analisi di struttura e deduzione storica della Teologia Trinitaria di Prepositino, Analecta Gregoriana 183 (Rome, 1972) 199–303; parts ii–iii not edited; part iv, ed. D. E. Pilarczyk, Praepositini Cancellarii de Sacramentis et de Novissimis (Summae Theologicae pars quarta), Collectio Urbaniana 3. Textus ac documenta 7 (Rome, 1964), this copy, ‘Bl’, see p. 12; Grabmann, - Geschichte, 2. 552–63, esp. pp. 554ff., this copy at p. 554, n. 2; Glorieux, Théol., 109g, this copy; Stegmüller 699, this copy (incorrect folio nos); Bloomfield suppl. 4623d; Landgraf, Einführung, 112f., this copy at p. 113; for the text and MSS, see G. Lacombe, Prepositini Cancellarii Parisiensis (1206–1210), Opera omnia. I. – La vie et les oeuvres de Prévostin, Bibliothèque Thomiste 11 (Kain, 1927) 153–82, this copy at pp. 157 (no. 16) & 162, n. 5; chapters listed at pp. 168–78; ‘Prévostin de Crémone’, DS 12, 2 (1986) 2185–93, at cols. 2186f. [J. Longère].
(fol. 24r)
Table of chapters
(fol. 26r–v)
Excerpts mainly from the Church Fathers
Incipit: Duplex est ira. Ira per uicium et ira per zelum. de utraque. Gregorius. Alia est ira quam impacientia excitat. alia quam zelus

Quoted by name are Gregory the Great, Augustine, John of Damascus, Jerome, Isidore of Seville, John Cassian, the Bible (Philippians, Ephesians, Corinthians, ...), etc.

(fol. 27r)
Incipit: (preface) Qui producit uentos de thesauris suis. qui percussit primogenita egipti. ab homine usque ad pecus. Dominus ille magnus qui imperat uentis et mari et obediunt ei
(fol. 27rb)
Incipit: (text) De uocabulis que dicuntur [red] - De uocabulis igitur que de deo dicuntur. incipiamus. Notandum ergo
Explicit: ligat. si iniuste deus non ligat tunc ||
(fol. 96av–v)
Quaestio de Prophetia
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Queritur de prophetia. et primo quid sit. Cassiodorus in prologo psalmorum. Prophetia est divina inspiracio rerum [futurarum imm]obili ueritate denuncians
Explicit: eam modis omnibus.

Quotations from Cassiodorus, Augustine, Jerome, etc. Script very faint, text in part illegible.

(fols. 96br–96cv, 17th-cent. paper leaves) blank.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: quod nullo (fol. 28r)
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.250–57 × 164–85 mm.

Layout

Ruling in lead point: (fols. 24r–25v) two to three columns of 39 lines. Above top line. Ruled space c.176–181 × 104–06 mm.

Ruling in lead point: (fols. 26r–96av) two columns, of (fol. 26r-v) maximum 68 unruled lines, (fols. 27r–95v) c.46–62 lines ruled across the intercolumnar space. Ruled space c.171–228 × 108–18 mm.

Hand(s)

French textualis by several hands.

Decoration

Simple initials in red.

Rubrication by the scribes.

History

Origin: France; s. xiii2 (Judging by the script.)

Provenance

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: the quires of parts A (a Charterhouse copy) and B signed consecutively.

MS. Laud Misc. 80 - part C (fols. 97–116)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

6. (fol. 97r–v)

For item 6 see below.

7. (fols. 98r–116v)
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis,

fol. 116v: Addition: De proprietatibus romanorum [red] – Inter omnia sapientes sunt romani ut faciant malum bene autem facere nesciunt. hii uniuerse terre ... (fol. 116vb) adulatores et mordacissimi detractores Simplicissimi dissimulatores et malignissimi proditores. | Explicit liber lotharii leuite de uilitate condicionis humane.’ The same addition in Munich, BSB, Clm 3686, fol. 241r.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: et iniquitatibus (fol. 99r)
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.247–54 × 176–80 mm.

Layout

Ruling (fols. 98r–116v) in lead point, two columns of 40–42 lines ruled across the intercolumnar space. Below top line. Ruled space c.170–79 × 123–34 mm.

Hand(s)

(fols. 98ra–116vb) French textualis formata (textus rotundus) by a single hand.

Decoration

Initials alternating in red and blue.

Scribal red rubrics

History

Origin: France; s. xivin (Judging by the script.)

Provenance

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: late 14th-cent. inscription at the lower margin of fol. 116v.

MS. Laud Misc. 80 - part D (fols. 117–204)

Contents

8. (fols. 117r–199r (?))
Ps.-Stephen Langton, Summa theologiae siue Liber quaestionum theologiae (incomplete)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: Liber questionum theologie. hic tractat primo de Diuina essencia et de tribus personis. Deinde de angelis et sic de aliis.
Incipit: Breues dies hominis sunt. et numerus mensium eius infra primos limites cohartatur. Proinde breuibus dictis est promouenda imbecillitas paruulorum

Unclear where the text ends. Msc. Patr. 136 of the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg preserves on fols. 1r–98v a long Summa, composed between 1202 and 1206, which has been named after its initial words Breves sunt dies hominis. The text, to be associated with the School of Poirrée, has been erroneously ascribed to Stephen Langton. MS. Laud Misc. 80 (D) preserves a more reliable copy of the Summa than the Bamberg text, but is only fragmentary. The Summa is also preserved in MSS Cambrai, BM, Ms. 402, fols. 98r–117r (complete), Paris, BnF, Lat. 3237, fols. 89r–96r, and El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, G.IV.14 (both fragmentary).

Unpr.; – A. Landgraf, ‘Echtheitsfragen bei Stephan von Langton’, Philosophisches Jahrbuch 40 (1927) 306–18, at pp. 306–11; O. Lottin, ‘L’authenticité de la “Summa” d’Étienne Langton’, RThAM 1 (1929) 497–504, this copy at pp. 497 & 503, n. 29; id., ‘Un nouveau manuscrit fragmentaire de la Somme d’Étienne Langton’, RThAM 1 (1929) 373–76, at pp. 373 & 375, & n. 5; G. Lacombe, ‘The authenticity of the Summa of Cardinal Stephen Langton’, New Scholasticism 4 (1930) 97–114; G. Lacombe & B. Smalley, ‘Studies on the commentaries of Cardinal Stephen Langton’, AHDLMA 5 (1930) 5–220, citing the present manuscript at pp. 8 & 185; A. Landgraf, ‘Zur Chronologie der Werke Stephan Langtons’, RThAM 3 (1931) 67–71, at pp. 70f.; Glorieux, Théol., 104a, this copy; Stegmüller 828, this copy; Landgraf, Einführung, 87f., this copy at p. 88; D. Van den Eynde, ‘Hugues de Saint-Victor, source du Pseudo-Étienne Langton’, RThAM 17 (1950) 61–78, this copy passim, siglum ‘O’; Grabmann, Geschichte, 2. 500f.; J. Gründel, Die Lehre von den Umständen der menschlichen Handlung im Mittelalter, BGPTM 39, 5 (1963) 272–86, this copy at pp. 272, 273–75 (partly edited, this copy ‘O’); furthermore see ‘Étienne Langton’, DS 4 (1961) 1495–1502, at cols 1498f. [R. Floreville]; R. Quinto, “Doctor nominatissimus”: Stefano Langton († 1228) e la tradizione delle sue opere, BGPTM, NF 39 (1994) 44 & 302; Sharpe Handlist, 1669; ‘Stephan Langton’, LThK 9 (32000) 965f., at col. 966 [S. Ernst]; R. Quinto, ‘Le commentaire des Sentences d’Hugues de Saint-Cher et la littérature théologique de son temps’, in Hugues de Saint-Cher († 1263), bibliste et théologien, eds L.-J. Bataillon et al., BHCMA 1 (2004) 299–324, at pp. 302ff., this copy at p. 302 n. 16; K. Emery Jr. et al., ‘Quaestiones, Sententiae and Summae from the Later Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries: The Joseph N. Garvin Papers (II)’, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 48/2006 (Turnhout, 2007) 15–81, at pp. 34–60, this copy siglum ‘O’, see p. 35).
(fols. 199v-203v)
Theological notes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Augustinus ... contemplatio uirtutis
Incipit: Eropeia tercia cuiquam ... propter sui magnitudinem explicare non potuit
Explicit: sed tamen carni atribuitur quia per eam inferior pars anime que dicitur sensualitas.
9. (fol. 204r)
Sermo de S. Benedicto
Language(s): Latin

Incipit see Schneyer 6. 470. 18 (‘Sermones OCist’). St Benedict is here referred to as Pater noster, which may associate the fascicle with an order that follows the Benedictine Rule, such as the Cistercian order, for example.

10. (fol. 204v)
Theological notes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Quod patet in lucifero qui cum honeratus fuisset tali honore nec celum nec empireum nec firmamentum
Explicit: per peccatum iracundie uel furoris ||

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: originem secundum (fol. 118r)
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (leaf): c.247–52 × 177–82 mm.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, in two columns of c.47–60 lines. Above top line. Ruled space c.182–86 × 125–28 mm.

Hand(s)

Small French textualis cursiva by several very similar hands

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials alternately red and blue.

History

Origin: France; s. xiii2 (Judging by the script.)

Provenance

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: there is no evidence of medieval ownership; the fact, however, that all other parts of MS. Laud Misc. 80 belonged to the Charterhouse and that part D bears a marked resemblance to part B, speaks in support of an ascription to the Mainz Charterhouse.

MS. Laud Misc. 80, fol. 97

Contents

Language(s): Latin

6. (fol. 97r–v)
Bernard of Pavia, Breviarium extravagantium siue Compilatio prima decretalium

Fragment. In the range of lib. i, prooemium, and tit. 1–2. The leaf is added as flyleaf to fascicle C.

Ed. A. Augustín, Antiquæ collectiones decretalium (Paris, 1609) 1–3; partly edited by E. Friedberg, Quinque compilationes antiquae (Leipzig, 1882) 1–65, at pp. 1f.; – Schulte, GQ, 1. 78–82; 175ff.; Kuttner, Repertorium, 322–44; H. Lange, Römisches Recht im Mittelalter. Band I: Die Glossatoren (Munich, 1997) 95f.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Protogothic script

History

Origin: s. xiiiin ; Germany (?)

Additional Information

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 92
Quarto Catalogue, col. 93
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 37

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. 319–334

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-23: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.