MS. Laud Misc. 127
Summary Catalogue no.: 1576
Augustine, Contra Faustum Manichaeum; Würzburg, Domstif, s. ix2/3 (Gozbald)
Contents
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 418–22. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Fols. i recto-ii verso blank, except for a Bodleian shelfmark on f. ii verso.
Fols. 175–176v blank, except for some modern scribbles on f. 174v.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point; one column of 20 lines. Ruled space c. 208–20 × 148–59 mm.
Hand(s)
Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/3, by several hands belonging to the later Hunbert and the second Gozbald group.
Decoration
Simple initials in the ink of the text.
Occasional red rubrics.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Writen in Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix2/3, by hands belonging to the later Hunbert and the second Gozbald group.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: 15th-century shelfmark, fol. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. ii verso.
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
2019-07-04: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.