MS. Laud Misc. 134
Summary Catalogue no.: 1553
Augustine; Niederaltaich Abbey?, s. ix2/4, (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. 431–9. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested
f. i recto-verso a small paper slip; fols. ii recto–iii verso blank, except for shelfmarks, a 17th-century list of contents and an ex-libris.
fols. 111r-v blank, except for a pen trial.
Physical Description
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript consists of two separate but similar parts, which came together very early on: on palaeographical evidence both written by pre-Würzburg hands belonging to the Gozbald group, possibly in Niederaltaich Abbey, s. ix2/4. Part II in the hand of Egino: subscription, f. 15v.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: a 15th-century shelfmark, f. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. iii verso.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
MS. Laud Misc. 134 – Part I (fols. 1r-14v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point, one column of 26 lines. Ruled space c. 232–42 × 152–54 mm.
Hand(s)
Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/4, by several hands.
Decoration
None.
MS. Laud Misc. 134 – Part II (fols. 15r-110v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fols. 52v/53r: the counterpart of fol. 48 missing, with loss of text.
Corpus Orationum 2.1673, 4.2405, 7.4413
Added, 9th century.
Fols. 110v blank, except for a pen trial.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point, one column of 26 lines. Ruled space c. 232–36 × 149–63 mm.
Hand(s)
Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/4, by several hands. Main scribe Egino: subscription, f. 108.
Decoration
Fine and good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 14, pl. II). On fol. 15v a ten-line initial A, fol. 48v a six-line initial N; fols. 15v, 16r, 48r coloured capitals; explicit and incipit inbetween three coloured bands; quire signatures inscribed in a large circles.
Additional Information
Record Sources
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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.