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MS. Laud Misc. 144

Summary Catalogue no.: 897

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)
Augustine, Tractatus in euangelium Iohannis
Incipit: Incipit expositio beati Augustini episcopi in Evangelium secundum Johannem

Part I (serm. 1–36); part II is in MS. Laud Misc. 143 with which this volume forms a set. Fol. 105v has the beginning of serm. 37.

3. (fol. 120v)
Final rubric: Expliciunt libri duo beati Augustini episcopi de pastoribus

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 137 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 358 × 250 mm.
Dimensions (written): 265 × 182 mm.

Decoration

Red arabesque initials, sometimes with yellow decoration.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; German, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Attributed by Palmer to the Eberbach scriptorium.

Identifiable as b13 in the 1502 Eberbach library catalogue.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 288 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents]
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 139–40
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 38

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-02-15: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.

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