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MS. Laud Misc. 737

Summary Catalogue no.: 1232

Durandus of Saint-Pourçain, Lectura super quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Northern France/Paris (?), s. xiv1.

Contents

Language(s): Latin

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1495–1498. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1. (fol. i recto–verso)

Endleaf fragment: see below.

2. (fols 1ra–109ra)
Durandus de Sancto Porciano, Commentary on Peter Lombard, Sententiae, bk. 4

Second recension (unpr.; Quétif–Échard, SOP, 1. 586a–587b; Little 39, citing the present MS.; J. Koch, Durandus de S. Porciano O. P. Forschungen zum Streit um Thomas von Aquin zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts. Erster Teil: literaturgeschichtliche Grundlegung, BGPM 26, 1 (1927) 5–85, this copy at p. 52; Glorieux, Rép., 70d, citing the present MS.; Stegmüller, RS, 194, citing the present MS. at p. 87; Kaeppeli 927, this copy at p. 342).

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: et rebus que
Form: codex
Support: parchment; with remnants of medieval repair (stitching with natural-coloured thread).
Extent: 111 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.295–300 × 190–95 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–110, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i 1+12 | ii–v 12 | vi 4 | vii–ix 12 | x 12-2.

Layout

Ruling (fols 1ra–109rb) in lead point, two columns of hand 1) 56, 2) (mostly) 54–56 and 3) c.47–53 lines. Ruled space c.220–37 × 143–53 mm.

Hand(s)

(fols 1ra–109ra, main part) French textualis, s. xiv1, by three different hands, changing at fols 13rb, l. 41 & 62rb, l. 34. The hands are related to those writing in MS. Laud Misc. 348. Corrections and marginalia mostly in the text hands.

Decoration

Rubrication.

Spaces for initials.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; France, Northern (Paris?). The manuscript was estimated by ‘Wernherus’ from Erbach (im Odenwald, Hesse) to be sold in Paris, as suggested by the deleted, now in part illegible note at the upper margin of fol. 110v, below the ex-libris inscription of the Mainz Charterhouse, and written in the same hand: ‘[Notand]um est. quod iste liber est [c. six words heavily crossed out: ... Elizabeth [?] de fratribus ... de ...]. et est estimatus. per wernherum | […]m de Erbach filium [...] prout carius vendi [?] posset parisius ad […]’.

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the top centre of fol. 110v: ‘fratrum Cartusiensium prope mogunciam.’ Identifiable as D XIII S in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, 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. 737, endleaf (fol. i r-v)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Carthusian Statutes

Text unidentifiable. Leaf of scrap parchment, written on both sides, reused as front flyleaf.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: one leaf
Dimensions (leaf): c.295–99 × 186–92 mm.

Layout

Ruled in ink, two columns of 29 lines; single horizontal and vertical bounding lines, extending the full height, probably also width of the page; the ruled space c.251–53 × 183 mm. , each column c.85–88 mm, the intercolumnar space 9–10 mm.

History

Origin: s. xiv ; 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. 523
Quarto Catalogue, p. 583
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 53

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. 1495–1498

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-11-17: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.