Medieval manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : a descriptive catalogue
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Medieval manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : a descriptive catalogue
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018
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Pagination of each volume: 1. 920 p. -- v. 2. p. 925-1809
Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-75) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years' War, mainly consist of major groups of codices from ecclesiastical houses in the Rhine-Main area, that is Wurzburg, Mainz, and Eberbach. Their potential contribution to the religious and intellectual history of these foundations and to the study of German medieval culture as a whole is immeasurable.
This book contains descriptions of over one hundred medieval, manuscripts, mostly Latin, from the Charterhouse St Michael at Mainz, founded in the early 1320s. Dating from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, they reflect the spirituality and literary interest of the Carthusian order.
This is the first major publication on the Mainz Charterhouse manuscript collection. Published in two volumes, it provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions, including information about the physical characteristics, decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts. Each manuscript is illustrated.
Table of Contents
Preface
INTRODUCTION
* The Laud collection
* Archbishop Laud, the manuscripts from Germany,
and their journey to England
* The Charterhouse St Michael at Mainz:
i) Foundation
ii) History until 1781
iii) The library
Editorial conventions
Acknowledgements
ABBREVIATIONS
Bibliographical Abbreviations
General Abbreviations
List of manuscripts
List of figures
Concordance of Mainz Charterhouse shelfmarks
CATALOGUE
INDICES
Index of Initia
General Index
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