MS. Laud Misc. 181
Summary Catalogue no.: 779
Miscellanea. Germany, A) (fols 1–102) s. xivin; B) (fols 103–166) c.1300; C) (fols 167–174) s. xiii2.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: A miscellany of three different, German, parts, which existed in this form already in the 14th century (see Foliation, above). The 24 leaves missing at the beginning of the volume went lost some time after the foliation was inserted, but before fascicle A, which bears a late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse, received its quire signatures.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. ii verso.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
MS. Laud Misc. 181 – Part A (fols 1–102)
Contents
Lib. III of De exterioris (=De profectu religiosorum), with shortened preface (pr.: GW 4649 (Bonaventure, Opuscula); 8163–8168 (David of Augsburg); ed.: Quaracchi (21899) 161–378, with a list of MSS at pp. xx–xxxiv; Little 178, this copy only; Distelbrink 100; Bloomfield 4283, citing the present MS., and suppl.; Hauréau, Initia, 4. 356rb–va, this copy at col. 356rb; Mohan 304*, citing the present MS).
Lib. i, p. 2 of De exterioris (=Viginti passus de virtutibus bonorum religiosorum ad novitios), with preface (pr.: GW 4644–4648; ed.: Quaracchi (21899) 36–57, with a list of MSS at pp. xx–xxxiv; ed.: SBonO 1 (1882), p. xxi (no. 86); Little 192, citing the present MS).
(fols 74rb–75rb) list of chapter titles, to item 1 only.Version maior Ia (augmented, with excerpts), with preface (ed. Peltier I 11.2 21.2 3. 4. II 11-3 3–6. 9. 10. Transfige. III 1, 2/3–5).
(fol. 93va–vb) two prayers, ascribed to Dionysius and Augustine. (fol. 93va) Ps.-Anselm of Canterbury, orat. 10. (fol. 102r–v) two entries on praescientia and praedestinatio, and excerpts, ascribed to Augustine and Bernard of Clairvaux.Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling varies with the hands; in lead point or ink; mostly two columns, of c.25–31 lines. Ruled space c.110–14 × 89–94 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xivin, by three hands: A1) (fols 1ra–93vb, l. 16); A2) (fols 93vb, l. 17–102r, l. 15); A3) (fol. 102r, l. 15–v).
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est fratrum montis sancti michahelis prope mogunciam ordinis cartusiensis’. For the leaves missing at the beginning of the volume, see above.
MS. Laud Misc. 181 – Part B (fols 103–166)
Contents
With prologue (unpr.; ed.: Little 25, citing the present MS.; Hauréau, Initia, 1. 102vb, this copy only; Bloomfield 489, and suppl., both this copy).
Title after the header on fol. 105v.
With prologue (Little 151, this copy; Hauréau, Initia, 4. 167vb, this copy only).
With prologue. Text imperfect, in part different from edition (pr.: GW 4644; 4646–4650; 4705–4708; ed.: SBonO 8 (1898) ix–xxv, with a list of MSS at pp. x ff., 3–16; Glorieux, Rép., 305am; Stegmüller, RB, 10717; Distelbrink 18; Mohan 124*; Bloomfield 1856, and suppl.).
(fol. 122r) Note and verses.With prologue (pr.: GW 4644, 4646–4649; ed.: SBonO 8 (1898) pp. xxxix–xlix, with a list of MSS at pp. xli ff.,68–86; Little 35; Glorieux, Rép., 305ak; Schneyer, Wegweiser, 67 (prologue); Distelbrink 21; Mohan 51*; Bestul, Passion, 189, no. 16)
(fol. 131vb) Colophons: ‘Qui scripta sua dextera sit benedicta [sic] | Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor eat’. (fol. 131v) Additional prayers.Treatise, the head of the page trimmed, with text loss (l.5: 'tractatus status volentis deo placere').
(fol. 131ar) Excerpts, ascribed to Bernard of Clairvaux.= Ecbertus Schonaugiensis, Stimulus amoris.
(pr.: GW 2039 and GW 3907–08; ed.: PL 158. 748C–61A, 184. 953D–66A; SBonO 10 (1902) 28f., no. 90; Little 131, ‘Anon. Stimulus Amoris Dei’, citing the present MS.); see also MSS Laud Misc. 22, fols 18r–29r and Laud Misc. 493, fols 53r–57r.Dicta. Authors/works quoted are Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, Augustine, Cassidorus, Maximus, the Bible (John, James, etc.), Basilius, Ambrose, and Ephraem.
Imperfect, with prologue ((pr.: GW 4646–4648, 4650; Glorieux, Rép., 305bk and 311t; Distelbrink 178; Mohan 187*; Bloomfield 2530).
(fol. 155ra) table of chapters.Imperfect, with prologue (ed.: PL 102. 593C–610B; Bloomfield 2456, citing the present MS., and suppl.).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in ink, two columns, of c.32–35 lines. Ruled space c.120–33 × 90–100 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, c.1300, several hands.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Initial in brown (fol. 155ra).
Rubrication.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: see above.
MS. Laud Misc. 181 – Part C (fols 167–174)
Contents
With prologue (pr.: GW 2863–66, 2868, 2933–34, 2970 (anon.) 3029 and 3914; ed.: PL 4. 869B–82B and 40. 1079–88; PLS 2. 1368; Römer ii/1. 24 (no. 50); ii/2. 274; Bloomfield 1838, and suppl.; CPPM 2. 3067, 3230, 3430 and 3506; CPL 1106).
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruling in ink, two columns of 42 or 43 lines. Ruled space c.133–138 × 89–90 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis, s. xiii2, by a single hand, above top line.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red and blue.
(fol. 174vb) Connecting lines in red.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: see above.
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-07-21: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.