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
- : [set]
- v. 1
- v. 2
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
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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