Manuscripts of Theological Works

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Liber de sancta Trinitate

Liber gratie

Expositio in orationem Dominicam

Tractatus in salutatione beate Virginis Marie ab angelo facta

Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis

Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste

Liber de penitentia

Alphabetical list of manuscripts

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Inventory of manuscripts of the Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste

30 surviving manuscripts of the Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste are known today; one further manuscript is lost.

Surviving manuscripts

• Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, Fonds Lescalopier, 7, ff. 53^v-61^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: last third of 13^th century.
  • P:
  • O:
  • L: Digital images as well as a monochrome facsimile (microfilm) are available for consultation in the Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux of the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes at Paris.

• Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, fol. Cod 203, ff. 60^r-77^v
  • I: The ms. is composed of six distinct parts. The third part, ff. 60-79, contains only the Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste, which lacks its prologue and table of chapters.
  • D: Middle of the 15^th century (1454) (f. 77^v: In vigilia Epiphanie F. 1454).
  • P: Augsburg.
  • O: cl. Sts. Ulrich und Afra O.S.B. at Augsburg.

• Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, II.1.4°.9, ff. 251^vb-259^va
  • I: The text belongs to the second part of a composite manuscript consisting of 3 parts, dating to the 13^th and 14^th centuries. It also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 2^nd half of 13^th century.
  • P: France.
  • O: Iste liber est ... fratris Iohannis de Lyra (fol. 203^r); Füssen, cl. St. Mang O.S.B.

• Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, A.XI.1, ff. 309^r-317^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent’s Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis and his theological treatise Liber gratie. The ms. was used as a source to the Basel 1481 incunabulum edition by Amerbach, possibly in combination with ms. Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, B.VIII.31.
  • D: Ca. 1450.
  • P:
  • O: A monastery at Basel.

• Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, B.VIII.31, ff. 65^r-74^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent’s Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis and two of his political works, the De eruditione filiorum nobilium and the Epistola consolatoria ad Ludovicum regem de morte filii. The ms. was possibly used as a source to the Basel 1481 incunabulum edition by Amerbach, in combination with ms. Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, A.XI.1.
  • D: Early 14^th century.
  • P:
  • O: Dominicans at Basel.

• Bruges, Stadsbibliotheek, 86, ff. 64^v-74^r
  • I: The text belongs to the first section of a composite manuscript consisting of 4 parts, dating to the 14^th and 15^th centuries. It also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 14^th-15^th century.
  • P:
  • O: cl. Ten Duinen O.Cist.
  • L: Digital facsimile.

• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 240, ff. 230^v-266^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 13^th century.
  • P:
  • O:

• Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek, 58, ff. 102^v-117^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 15^th century (ca. 1475).
  • P: Southern Germany
  • O: cl. Tennenbach O.Cist. near Freiburg.
  • L: Digital facsimile.

• Fribourg (Freiburg im Üchtland), Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 730, ff. 151^r-164^r
  • I: The text belongs to the third unit of a composite manuscript consisting of 4 units, dating to the 14^th and early 15^th centuries. This unit also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 14^th/15^th century.
  • P:
  • O: Gruyère, Archives du Clergé de Gruyères (before 1898); since 1900 in the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire.
  • L: Digital facsimile.

• Lambach, Stiftsbibliothek, CCL 74, ff. 56^v-65^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 15^th century.
  • P:
  • O:

• London, British Library, Add. 29984, ff. 147^r-161^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 15^th century.
  • P: Germany.
  • O: Merijen Schuryngh (16^th century owner's mark at fol. 32^r).

• London, British Library, Arundel 290, ff. 97^v-111^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 2^nd half of 13^th century.
  • P: Northern France.
  • O:
  • L: A few digital images are available in the online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.

• London, British Library, Royal 7.D.XXVI, ff. 138^r-155^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D:
  • P:
  • O:

• Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6948, ff. 351^r-360^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 1450-1451
  • P:
  • O: cl. Fürstenfeld O.Cist.

• Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 7696, ff. 91^r-105^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 13^th century.
  • P:
  • O: cl. Indersdorf Can.S.Aug.

• New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Marston 285, ff. 38^r-44^r
  • I: The manuscript is composed of five distinct parts; it is unclear when the parts were joined together. The first part, ff. 1-44, contains the Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste. It also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 2^nd half of 14^th century.
  • P: Italy.
  • O: Venice, cl. SS. Giovanni e Paolo O.P.; Baron C. A. de Cosson; Thomas E. Marston.
  • L: Digital facsimile.

• Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent. I.29, ff. 102^r-107^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 1^st half of 15^th century.
  • P: Southern Germany (Nürnberg, Dominicans).
  • O: Dominicans at Nürnberg.

• Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 755, ff. 75^r-79^r
  • I: The manuscript is composed of three parts. The first part, ff. 1-132, contains the Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste; it was written in the 13^th century but suffered loss of leaves afterwards; in the 15^th this damage was mended by inserting leaves and filling the textual lacunas. The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 13^th and 15^th centuries.
  • P: France.
  • O: Paris, cl. St. Victor Can.S.Aug.

• Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 946, ff. 71^r-78^r
  • I: The manuscript is composed of two parts. The first part contains the Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste. It also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 13^th century.
  • P: France.
  • O: Paris, cl. St. Victor Can.S.Aug.

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 3698, ff. 94^r-109^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 14^th century.
  • P: France.
  • O: Narbonne ("oste de Saint F."); Card. Mazarin.

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 7605, ff. 177^r-181^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis and his De eruditione filiorum nobilium.
  • D: 14^th century.
  • P: France.
  • O: Colbert.

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 16056, ff. 111^r-117^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: Ca. 1300.
  • P: France.
  • O: Paris, Sorbonne.
  • L: A monochrome facsimile (microfilm) is available for consultation in the Gallica database.

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 18134, ff. 91^r-106^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 13^th century (1250-1275).
  • P:
  • O:
  • L: A monochrome facsimile (microfilm) is available for consultation in the Gallica database.

• Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituli, A.CLVIII, ff. 153^v-164^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 14^th century.
  • P:
  • O:

• San Daniele del Friuli, Biblioteca civica Guarneriana, 83, ff. 115^r-131^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 15^th century.
  • P:
  • O:

• Trier, Stadtbibliothek Weberbach, 597, ff. 102^v-117^v
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 15^th century.
  • P:
  • O: Trier, cl. S. Alban, O. Carth.; incorporated into the Stadtbibliothek in 1803.

• Trier, Stadtbibliothek Weberbach, 725, ff. 53^r-62^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: Early 16^th century (after 1514).
  • P: Western Germany (Eberhardsklausen).
  • O: Trier region, cl. Eberhardsklausen, Can.Reg.S.Aug. (Windesheim Congregation).

• Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 723, ff. 297^v-306^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 16^th century.
  • P:
  • O:

• Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 675, ff. 140^r-146^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: 14^th century.
  • P:
  • O:
  • L: Digital facsimile.

• Worcester, Cathedral and Chapter Library, Q. 72, ff. 208^r-214^r
  • I: The ms. also contains Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis.
  • D: middle of 14^th century.
  • P: England (Oxford?).
  • O: Worcester, cathedral priory St. Mary O.S.B.

Lost manuscript

• Königsberg, Universitätsbibliothek, 1194, ff. 83^r-88^v (early 14^th century; donated after 1360 to the Franciscan convent at Wehlau, from where the ms. entered the library of the Teutonic order at Tapiau and hence the Königsberg University library; lost during the Second World War); the ms. also contained Vincent's Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis and De penitentia. Several photographs of the ms. have been recovered; see A. Kovács's contribution to the Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter 42 (2018), pp. 17-26.