MS. Laud Misc. 230
Summary Catalogue no.: 1067
John Cassian, Collationes, 11-24; Germany (?Eberbach), c. 1170–90
Contents
Part 1 (nos. 1–10) is MS. Laud Misc. 250, fols. 78–183.
Pref. to Coll. XI-XVIII
Coll. XI
Coll. XII
Coll. XIII
Coll. XIV
Coll. XV
Coll. XVI
Coll. XVII
Pref. to Coll. XVIII-XXIV
Coll. XVIII
Coll. XIX
Coll. XX
Coll. XXI
Coll. XXII
Coll. XXIII
Coll. XXIV
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in faint plummet for 1 col. of 25-28 lines (scribe 1) or 28-31 lines (scribe 2).
Hand(s)
Protogothic script by two hands, changing at fol. 149v line 5.
Added Cistercian punctuation.
Title-page and some incipits (scribe 1) in red and brown majuscules.
Decoration
Green (rarely) and red ‘silhouette’ initials. (cf. Pächt and Alexander i. 98)
Plain coloured initials in green (rarely) and red.
Binding
Standard Laudian binding, 1630s, rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Attributed to the Eberbach scriptorium on evidence of script and decoration (cf. MS. Laud Misc. 87, partly by the same hand).
Eberbach ex libris.
Identifiable as e 10 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-07-15: Additional description of script