MS. Laud Misc. 158
Summary Catalogue no.: 1019
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Followed by a canon of the synod of Carthage relating to baptism, and a further extract from the Hypomnesticon. Leaves missing at the end.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 239 fols
Dimensions (leaf): 363 × 275 mm.
Layout
2 columns, written space 278 × 190 mm.
Decoration
‘Silhouette’ initials in the same style as MS. Laud Misc. 90.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Cistercian monastery of Eberbach: ex libris.
Identifiable in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502: fols. 1–15 = b 10(1), fols. 106–239 = b 11(1–3).
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), pp. 65, 289 [contents, 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 (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 86
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-01-30: Description revised to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.