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MS. Laud Misc. 521

Summary Catalogue no.: 1177

Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis (in German); Germany, 1375

Language(s): Middle High German (South Franconian dialect)

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1382–1386. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols. 1r–241r)

Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium theologicae veritatis

Colophon: Completus est liber iste per manus heinrici regenboden. de Cassel. anno domini millesimo. trecentesimo septuagesimo quinto. iij. kalendas Maii. (29 April 1375)

German translation: the earliest Rhine Franconian text version.

Fols. 241v–242v blank, except for ruling and the ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse at the head of fol. 241v.

(fols. 1r–3v)

List of chapters

(fol. 4r–v)

Prologue

(fols. 4v–241r)

Main text

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (17th century) + 242 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): c. 197–210 × 128–40 mm.

Foliation: i, 1–242

Layout

Ruling in ink, one column (except for the list of chapters on fols 1ra–3vb: two columns) of 33 lines. Ruled space c. 160–63 × 96–98 mm. (fols. 1ra–3vb) c. 44–46

Hand(s)

German textualis by a single scribe, ‘Heinricus Regenboden de Cassel’, who completed the manuscript on 29 April 1375, his subscription (fol. 241r).

Decoration

Red headers; rubrics, colophon, chapter numbering, and paraphs; majuscules at the beginning of a sentence highlighted in red.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 1375 ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

Written by ‘Heinricus Regenboden’ from Kassel (that is either Kassel on the Fulda River, which belonged to the Archbishopric Mainz, or the small village Kassel bei Gelnhausen). The language of the text is South Rhine Franconian; it might have been written on the right bank of the Rhine between Neckar and Murg or on the left bank of the Rhine, in the area of Speyer (Steer, Hugo Ripelin, 370 & 375). The Compendium was completed on 29 April 1375 (colophon, fol. 241r).

Fryelon, dominus: bequeathed the book to Mainz Charterhouse according to Mainz Charterhouse ex-libris inscription (fol. 241v).

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: four late 14th-/early 15th-century ex-libris inscriptions (fols. 1r, 11r, 138v and 241v); the 15th-century shelfmark ‘X xvij T’ from the Charterhouse (fol. 4r).

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 4r.

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. 376

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 51