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MS. Laud Misc. 456

Summary Catalogue no.: 1332

Odo of Cluny, Epitome Moralium s. Gregorii in Iob. France/South of the Loire, s. ix2/4.

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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. 1195–1200. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols 1r–201r)
Odo of Cluny, Epitome Moralium s. Gregorii in Iob

Bks 6–35. The text is imperfect at the beginning, starting with bk 6, v. 9. (pr.: M. Marrier (Paris, 1617) 99–766; ed.: PL 133. 159B–512D, etc.; Stegmüller, RB, 6118; M. Adriaen (ed.), Egloga quam scripsit Lathcen filius Baith de Moralibus Iob quas Gregorius fecit, CCSL 145 (1969), p. vi, n. 12).

(fol. 201r, l. 7–v) blank, except for notes and sketches on the verso. (fol. 201v, lower half) A possibile reference to a female scribe: ‘Anstrud sripsit [sic]’. See printed catalogue for full description.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Occidit sol
Form: codex
Support: parchment. The first and last leaves of the volume appear to have directly faced the boards of a previous binding: (fols 1r–v, 198v–201v) several rust marks (the last two leaves partly damaged), from former binding furniture, including two fore-edge straps/clasps.
i (17th-cent.) + 201 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c.322–47 × 231–41 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–202, in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Collation

i 4 | ii 4-2 | iii 10-2 | iv & v 8 | vi 10 | vii 10-1 | viii 8 | ix 10-2 | x & xi 8 | xii 10-2 | xiii 8 | xiv 10-2 | xv 8 | xvi 10-2 | xvii 2 | xviii 8 | xix 10-2 | xx & xxi 8 | xxii 10-2 | xxiii & xxiv 8 | xxv 10-2 | xxvi 8 | xxvii 6.

Layout

Ruling in hard point, one column of 31 or 32 lines. Ruled space c.240–258 × 162–70 mm.

Hand(s)

Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/4, by several hands. Occasional marginalia in lead point or ink, in contemporary and later, up to 15th-cent. hands.

'Aystrud scripsit', fol. 201v. Note suggestive of a female scribe.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 13:

Decorated initials in red, green and yellow.

Rubrication.

Sketches and drawings.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 9th century, second quarter. ; France, South of the Loire, possibly in a nunnery (see Script).

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r: ‘Iste liber est fratrum montis sancti michahelis prope mogunciam ordinis Carthusiensis’ (faint) and, in a different hand, at the upper right margin of fol. 200v: ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’. A German hand of s. xiv2/4 inserted in the left-hand margin of fol. 52v a note alluding to the Battle of Mühldorf (Battle of Ampfing), near Mühldorf am Inn, fought on September 28, 1322, between the Duchy of (Upper) Bavaria and Austria (king Louis of Wittelsbach led the Bavarians, while his cousin, the anti-king Frederick of Habsburg, commanded the Austrians): ‘Anno Domni Mo | CCC XXII Lo|dewicus rex ro|manorum et dux austrie habebant | in baubaria | conflictum magnum’. The manuscript may therefore be located in Southern Germany/territory of Mainz in the second quarter of the 14th century, and it seems very likely that it was already in the possession of the Mainz Charterhouse at that time (cf. G. Braga, ‘Problemi di autenticità per Oddone di Cluny: l’Epitome dei “Moralia” di Gregorio Magno’, Studi medievali, 3rd ser., 18/2 (1977), p. 127).

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris, dated 1638, at the lower part of fol. 1r.

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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 328
Quarto Catalogue, p. 563
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 57

Digital Images

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Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 1195–1200

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-22: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.

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