MS. Laud Misc. 141
Summary Catalogue no.: 1023
Contents
The text was copied in two stages: first, fols. 1-44r15, c. 800; second, fols. 44r15-155v, in the first half of the 9th century.
Michael Gorman (1982) argued that the gap in copying could be explained by the use of different exemplars, with the first part of the manuscript being copied from a manuscript now represented by the fragment Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A.91.8 and the second part being copied from the manuscript now represented by the fragment Paris, B.N.F Latin 9377
Text lost between fols. 150 and 151 (Kautz).
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Caroline minuscule, several hands; early Caroline minuscule on fol. 15r (Bischoff).
Decoration
Rubrics.
Initials in red and in the ink of the text.
Binding
Calf over pasteboard: standard binding of the Laudian collection.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: probably identifiable in the 9th-century library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 93)
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ex libris, 15th century, fol. 155v; probably identifiable as b7 in the 1502 catalogue (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 238). The manuscript was probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18).
William Laud, acquired 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile with manuscript description by M. Kautz)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-07: Description revised with reference to cited catalogues and literature.