MS. Laud Misc. 144
Summary Catalogue no.: 897
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
, 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
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]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 1303
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-02-15: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.