MS. Laud Lat. 37
Summary Catalogue no.: 873
A Wisdom books, with gloss, France, s. xiiex; B Thomas Gallus (?), Commentary on the Song of Songs, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xivex/xvin
Physical Description
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Two fascicles of two different provenances, Eberbach abbey and Mainz Charterhouse, put together in the course of the Laudian binding.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
MS. Laud Lat. 37 – Part A (fols. 1–121)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Additions, in contemporary and slightly later hands.
An extract from Anselm of Canterbury (attrib.), Orationes
WIC 4025, ; J. Goering, William de Montibus (c. 1140–1213): the schools and the literature of pastoral care, Studies and Texts 108 (Toronto, 1992) 452, no. 1044).
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in lead point, two or (mostly) three columns of varying lines, on a common grid; the two outer columns for the marginal gloss may be subdivided into further columns, ad hoc, depending on what was needed. Ruled space c. 172–78 × 146–50 mm.
Hand(s)
French protogothic script, s. xiiex, by several hands, who wrote both main and gloss text. A large formal script for the Bible text, a smaller, less formal one for the gloss.
Decoration
Good fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 109)
History
Provenance
Cistercian Abbey of Eberbach: ex-libris inscription, s. xiii1 (upper margin of fol. 1r); 15th-century (?) explicit (bottom of fol. 121v). Likely ‘a 8’ in the catalogue of 1502 (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 261 & 284).
MS. Laud Lat. 37 – Part B (fols. 122–183)
Contents
Ed. J. Barbet, Publications de la Sorbonne. Série “Documents” 21 (Paris & Louvain, 1972) 77–321, this copy ‘O’, see pp. 9f. & 72; Stegmüller, Bibl. 8199, citing the present MS., and suppl.
(fols. 182v-183v) blank.Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in ink, two columns of c. 40–51 unruled lines. Ruled space c. 198–203 × 121–24 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xivex/xvin, one main hand: ‘Ulricus dictus Meynfridus’, note (upper margin, fol. 181v), about whom nothing more is known. The ink and script suggest a production at the Mainz Charterhouse.
Decoration
Penwork initial.
Plain red initials.
History
MS. Laud Lat. 37 - endleaf (fol. 122)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fragment of lib. 4 ds49 qu3 ar5d ra1–ra3 and lib. 4 ds49 qu1 ar1a ag1–ra5 (ed.: STO 1 (21989) 695 & 676–77; Glorieux, Théol., 14f; Stegmüller, Bibl. 846).
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 41–3 unruled lines. Ruled space c. 215–6 × 61–3 mm. , each column c. 72–78 mm, the intercolumnar space 11–14 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in textualis of s. xivin, by a German hand.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-14: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.