MS. Laud Misc. 122
Summary Catalogue no.: 1564
Augustine; Würzburg, Domstift, s. ix2/3 (Gozbald)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 384–9. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point; one column of 26–28 lines. Ruled space c. 221–31 × 143–60 mm.
Hand(s)
Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/3, presumably by a single hand, belonging to the Gozbald group.
Decoration
(fol. 1r) Five-line initial in the ink of the text, outlined on both sides with a thin decorative lobed line, each lobe dotted (cf. Pächt & Alexander (1. 21): s. ix2); a colour stain (bright red) on the inside; otherwise simple one- or two-line scribal initials to (if used) prologues, and major textual units.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written in Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix2/3, based on the script.
15th-century shelfmark of the Domstift, 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
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-20: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.