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MS. Laud Misc. 105

Summary Catalogue no.: 875

(Ps.)-Cyprian of Carthage; Germany, 9th century, first half

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)
Cyprian, Ad Donatum liber de gratia Dei
Final rubric: Ad Donatum explicit
2. (fol. 5v)
Cyprian, De habitu virginum libellus
Rubric: Incipit de habitu virginum
3. (fol. 12)
Cyprian, De lapsis
4. (fol. 22v)
Cyprian, De unitate ecclesise
Rubric: Incipit De ecclesiae Catholicae unitate
5. (fol. 31v)
Cyprian, De Dominica Oratione
Final rubric: De Dominica Oratione explicit
6. (fol. 41v)
Cyprian, De opere et eleemosynis
Rubric: Incipit de opere et elimosina
7. (fol. 49v)
Cyprian, De mortalitate
Rubric: Incipit de mortalitate feliciter
8. (fol. 56v)
Cyprian, Epistola ad Demetrianum
Rubric: Incipit ad Demetrianum feliciter
9. (fol. 65)
Cyprian, De bono patientiae
Rubric: Incipit de patientia lege feliciter
10. (fol. 73.)
Cyprian, De zelo et livore
Rubric: Incipit de zelo et livore, lege feliciter
11. (fol. 78v)
Cyprian, Ad Fortunatum de exhortatione martyrii
Rubric: Incipit ad Fortunatum
12. (fol. 90)
Cyprian, Testimoniorum ad Quirinum adversus Judseos libri tres
Rubric: Incipit ad Quirinum liber primus
13. (fol. 134v)
Cyprian, Ep. 63
Rubric: ad Caecilium de Sacramento Dominici calicis
16. (fol. 145)
Ps.-Cyprian, De laude Martyrii
Final rubric: De laude martyrii explicit
17. (fol. 153)
Ps.-Cyprian, De idolorum vanitate
Rubric: " Incipit quod idola Dei non sint
18. (fol. 156)
Ps.-Cyprian, Adversus Judaeos
19. (fol. 159v)
Ps.-Cyprian, De aleatoribus
Rubric: Incipit epistula Cypriani de aleatores

Followed by four verses:

Incipit: Latus peccanti pons est miseracio Christi

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 162 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 240 mm.
Dimensions (written): 197 × 157 mm.

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule, several hands, attributed by Bischoff to the Palace School of Louis the Pious.

Decoration

Red initials.

History

Origin: 9th century, first half ; German, Aachen (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (?): not identifiable in the 9th-century catalogues; Lorsch provenance inferred by Bischoff and Hunt from later Eberbach provenance (see below).

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: characteristic annotations (Quarto Catalogue, p. xxv). Probably identifiable as e 26 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502 (Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), 271, 287). Probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18)

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 105 - endleaf (fol. 163)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: part of a bifolium
Dimensions (fragment): 255 × 290 mm.

Layout

2 cols.; column width 65mm.

Hand(s)

Gothic cursive (bastarda)

Decoration

None extant.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; German

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2022) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), pp. 271, 287, 314 (frag. 26)
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 106
Quarto Catalogue, col. 107
Quarto Catalogue, p. 546
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 37

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile)

Bibliography

    Michael Kautz, Bibliothek und Skriptorium des ehemaligen Klosters Lorsch: Katalog der erhaltenen Handschriften (Wiesbaden, 2016)
    Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (2004), no. 3826
    Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed. (1989), 59, 77, 87, 98 n. 47

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-08: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.