MS. Laud Misc. 131
Summary Catalogue no.: 1314
Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos; Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix2/3 (Hunbert).
Contents
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 424–8. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
fols. i recto–ii verso, 122v-123v blank, except for few ownership notes and pen trials.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point, one column of 21 lines. Ruled space c. 217–22 × 161–70 mm.
Hand(s)
Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/3, by several hands belonging to the Hunbert group.
Decoration
Crude drawings in the lower margins on fols. 48r, 57r, 109r and 120v
Initials in red.
Rubrics.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix2/3: based on palaeographical grounds, written by hands belonging to the Hunbert group; a 15th-century shelfmark, fols. 1r and 2r.
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
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
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.