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MS. Laud Misc. 186

Summary Catalogue no.: 804

John Cassian (excerpts) Germany, Mainz Charterhouse, s. xiv2

Contents

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 580–585. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fol. 1*ar–v)

Additions, s. xivex/xvin.

(fol. 1*ar) Recipes for making gold letters, parchment and ink added s. xivex/xvin. 6 recipes itemised in Mairhofer. (fol. 1*av) Ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse at the upper margin, with a note to the reader below.
Language(s): Latin and German
2. (fol. 1br–13v)
John Cassian, De institutis coenobiorum

Excerpts (ed.: PL 49. (in the range of) 151B-476B; ed. M. Petschenig and G. Kreuz, CSEL 17 (2004) (in the range of) 49–231)

Language(s): Latin
3. (13v–36v)
John Cassian, Collationes

Parts 1-3, excerpts (ed.: PL 49. 483B–1305B; ed. M. Petschenig and G. Kreuz, CSEL 13 (2004) 8–690) Divided into 24 collationes, with list of collations (fol. 13v). Ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse in the bottom left-hand margin (fol. 36v).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: signaculo. Inter
Form: codex
Support: parchment
ii (17th-cent.) + 36 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c. 176–80 × 120–32 mm.
Foliation: 1*a and 1b, 2-10 in modern (20th-cent.) pencil. Medieval foliation near the upper centre of rectos in a hand from the Mainz Charterhouse (fols. 1br-36r)

Collation

i 12 (fols 1*a–11) | ii 10 (fols 12–21) | iii 14+1. Scribal quire signatures on the last verso of each quire, in the bottom right-hand corner. Leaf signatures in the first half of each quire, in the bottom right corner.

Layout

Ruling in ink, one column of c.29–31 lines without ruling. Ruled space c.140–47 × 103–11 mm.

Hand(s)

Textualis, by a single hand

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Limp parchment case binding for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; Germany (Mainz Charterhouse?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1*av: ‘Liber iste est fratrum Carthusiensium prope Mogunciam’, and the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the lower left-hand margin of fols 1br and 36v: ‘(.)codex carthusiensium moguntie(.)’.

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

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 167
Quarto Catalogue, p. 550
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 35

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 587–592

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-06-02: Description revised to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.