MS. Laud Misc. 121
Summary Catalogue no.: 1566
Augustine, De doctrina christiana; Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, or Niederaltaich Abbey, c. 825–855 (Gozbald).
Contents
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 375-81. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
fols. i recto–ii verso, and 78r–79v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point in one column of 28 lines. Ruled space c. 235–42 × 145–50 mm.
Hand(s)
Carolingian minuscule, c. 825–855, by several hands belonging to the second Gozbald group, originating in the abbey of Niederaltaich.
Decoration
Simple plain and coloured three- or four-line initials on fols. 1r, 4r, 16v, 38r, 55r
Rubrics.
fol. 14r a pen drawing of a fish, s. x (?).
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written either in the Domstift St Kilian in Würzburg or in the abbey of Niederaltaich, c. 825–855, very likely before 842, by several hands belonging to the second Gozbald group.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: entries in the booklists of the Domstift St Kilian from c. 800 and c. 1000; name of a Würzburg canon, Cundradus de Enkersberg (c. ), fol. 31r; 15th-century shelfmark, fol. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
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Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-27: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.