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MS. Laud Misc. 125

Summary Catalogue no.: 1552

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Fol. 1r blank. Fol. 1v, Eberbach ex libris and table of contents.

1. (fol. 2)
Augustine, De uera religione

With the relevant extract from Retractationes.

Final rubric: Explicit retractatio beati Augustini in librum de vera religione
2. (fol. 26)
Augustine, De correptione et gratia
Final rubric: Explicit liber beati Augustini de correpcione et gracia; Amen
3. (fol. 35)
Augustine, De utilitate credendi

With the relevant extract from Retractationes.

Final rubric: Explicit retractatio beati Augustini in librum de utilitate credendi

Fols. 48av-48bv blank.

4. (fol. 49)
Augustine, De LXXXIII quaestionibus

With the relevant extract from Retractationes.

Final rubric: Explicit liber S. Augustini episcopi de lxxx tribus questionibus

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 85 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 272 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 192 × 128 mm.
Foliation: Foliated 1–86 (48 is double)

Hand(s)

Cursive script on fol. 25v also appears in MS. Laud Misc. 98, fol. 34v.

Decoration

Flourished initials, by the same hand as the initial in MS. Laud Misc. 98.

Coloured red initials.

Binding

Laudian binding in reversed calf.

Former chained binding.

History

Origin: 14th century, end, or 15th century, beginning ; German, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Probably’ from the Eberbach scriptorium (Palmer).

Cistercian monastery of Eberbach: ex libris and table of contents (fol. 1v).

Identifiable as G 5 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 288 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, col. 128
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 66

Digital Images

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Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-05-07: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.