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MS. Laud Misc. 130

Summary Catalogue no.: 1558

Augustine, Locutiones in Heptateuchum, Quaestiones in Heptateuchum, De baptismo contra Donatistas. 9th century, first half; part A Germany (Lorsch), part B Germany (Lorsch) or France (Arras)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: i (paper) + i (parchment) + 1 + 297 (205 + 92) + i (parchment) + i (paper) leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 235–40 mm.

Foliation: i-ii, 1-300. Incomplete 17th(?)-century foliation in ink, completed in 19th-century pencil.

Binding

Standard Laudian binding of calf over pasteboards, 1638 or 1639; sewn on 5 bands.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

The two units of the volume perhaps first brought together at the Cistercian abbey of Eberbach: ‘Liber sancti Marie virginis in Ebirbach’, fol. 2r (late 14th or 15th century); probably identifiable as G9 in the 1502 catalogue, 'Liber locutorum augustini in geneseos Initium Locutiones scripturarum' (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 238); both parts probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18)

William Laud, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former shelfmark L. 32.

MS. Laud Misc. 130 - part A (fols. 2-206)

Language(s): Latin

Fol. 2r blank except for later ex libris

(fol. 2v)

Augustine, Retractationes II.54

Rubric: Retractatio huius operis ita se habet lxxx locutionum libri septem

Incipit: Septem libros de septem libris

Explicit: incipit Locutiones scripturarum

Final rubric: Explicit retractatio locutionum

(fol. 2v)

Contents list for fols. 3-206, in uncial: ‘In hoc corpore continentur | sancti Augustini locutionum libri num. VI | et questionum libri num. VII’

1. (fols. 3r–35v)

Augustine, Locutiones in Heptateuchum

Rubric: Incipit liber locutionum sancti Augustini in Geneseos

Incipit: Locutiones scripturarum quae uidentur

Explicit: confirmata est super eius

Final rubric: Expliciunt locutiones Iudicum qui est sancti Augustini liber septimus

Bk. 2, Exodus, fol. 12r; bk. 3, Lev., fol. 20r (rubric, 19v); bk. 4, Num., fol. 22r; bk. 5, Deut., fol. 27r; bk. 6, Josh., fol. 30v; bk. 7, Judges, rubric fol. 32v (the folio half blank after the end of bk. 6), text fol. 33r.

ed. CSEL 28.1 (this ms. siglum L), CCSL 33 (this ms. siglum L)

(fol. 36r–v)

Augustine, Retractationes II.55

Rubric: Commemoratio huius operis in libro retractationum ita se habet lxxxi questionum liber septem

Incipit: Eodem tempore scripsi

Explicit: quę appellantur canocicę

Final rubric: Explicit de libris retractationum

2. (fols. 37r–206r)

Augustine, Quaestiones in Heptateuchum

Rubric: (fol. 37r) Incipiunt capitula quaestionum de libri Geneseos

Final rubric: (fol. 40v) Expliciunt capitula libri Geneseos

Rubric: (fol. 41r) Incipiunt quaestiones libri Geneseos

Incipit: Cum scripturas sanctas quae appellantur canonicae

Explicit: uel legendo discantur amen

Final rubric: Expliciunt questiones Iudicum

Exodus, fol. 70r; Lev., fol. 115r; Num., fol. 141v; Deut., fol. 161v; Ios., fol. 177v; Judges, fol. 187v. Fols. 115-160 and 161-206 are separate production units; fol. 160v half-blank, but text continuing without a break from 'fit non tantum' to fol. 161r 'in adpetendo' (4.59). Fol. 206v blank.

Fol. 68 is a 15th-century replacement leaf (containing 1.164 'genuisset Ioseph' - 1.169 'fecisset dominus cum d(iscipulis) s(uis)').

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment (HFFH)

Collation

1(8+1) (fol. 2 added at the beginning of the quire), 2(8)-3(8), 4(10) (fols. 2-36) | 5(8)-13(8), 14(8-2) (last two cancelled) (fols. 37-114), quires 11-13 numbered vii-viiii, final verso, bottom centre | 15(8)-19(8), 20(8-2) (last two cancelled) (fols. 115-160) | 21(8)-25(8), 26(6) (fols. 161-206), quires 21-25 numbered i-v, final verso, bottom centre.

Layout

Ruled in hard point for one column of 30 lines with double vertical bounding lines. Ruled space 185–90 × 170–5 mm. (185 mm. to the outer bounding lines)

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule by several hands in the 'jüngerer Lorscher Stil' (Bischoff).

Rubrics in uncial.

Rubrics in rustic capitals.

Decoration

Initials in red or in the ink of the text.

Additions: Art. 2 with numerous later-medieval nota marks.

History

Origin: 9th century, first half or second quarter ; Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey; (Bischoff); fol. 68, 15th century, presumably Eberbach, Cistercian abbey

Provenance

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 146).

MS. Laud Misc. 130, part B (fols. 207-298)

3. (fols. 207r–298v)

Augustine, De baptismo contra Donatistas

Incipit: In eis libris quos aduersus epistolam Parmeniani

Explicit: ut in eo quod aliter sapiebant donec Deus id quoque||

Ending incomplete at VII.54.103 due to loss of a leaf.

Ed. CSEL 51, this ms. siglum J.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Collation

1(8)-11(8), 12(four); quires numbered i q, ii q etc. within decorative strokes, on the final verso, bottom inner corner.

Layout

Ruled with a hard point for two columns of 29 lines. Ruled space 185 × 160 mm. with 25 mm. between columns.

Running heads.

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule by one hand in the 'St Vaast' style (for which see Bischoff 1989, 41-4).

Rubrics and some incipits in uncial.

Decoration

Coloured red initials.

History

Origin: 9th century, first half or second quarter ; France, north-east, Arras, St Vaast or ; Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey

Provenance

Script in the 'St Vaast' style; written perhaps at St Vaast for export to Lorsch (Bischoff 2004, no. 3837) or perhaps at Lorsch itself (Bischoff 1989, p. 110); Adalung, abbot of Lorsch 804-837 was also abbot of St Vaast from 808 (Bishoff 1989, pp. 41-4).

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: probably identifiable in the library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 127).

MS. Laud Misc. 130 - endleaf (fol. 1)

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 1r–v)

Ambrose, Expositio in Ps. CXVIII (fragment)

Incipit: ||uestigiis ^et uiam^ ueram inuenire nequeamus

Explicit: ut luceat omnibus qui in domo sunt, vt||

CSEL 62, pp. 300-303. Another fragment of this manuscript is MS. Laud Misc. 417 fol. 1.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Layout

Ruled with a hard point for two columns of 29 lines with double vertical bounding lines. Ruled space 220 × 175 mm. (c. 180 mm. to the outer bounding lines)

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule, 'jüngerer Lorscher Stil' according to Bischoff.

History

Origin: 9th century, first half or second quarter ; Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (Bischoff)

Provenance

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: probably identifiable in the library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 213).

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description by Matthew Holford, September 2021. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 131–2

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 67

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile with manuscript description by Michael Kautz)

Bibliography

Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (2004) II.3835-7 (fols. 3-298 as 9th century, second quarter)

Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed. (1989), 41, 110 (9th century, first half)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-09: Description fully revised for digitization.