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MS. Laud Misc. 230

Summary Catalogue no.: 1067

John Cassian, Collationes, 11-24; Germany (?Eberbach), c. 1170–90

John Cassian, Collationes (11–17 and 18–24)

Part 1 (nos. 1–10) is MS. Laud Misc. 250, fols. 78–183.

(fols. 1v–2r)

Pref. to Coll. XI-XVIII

(fols. 2v–13v)

Coll. XI

(fols. 13v–29r)

Coll. XII

(fols. 29r–47r)

Coll. XIII

(fols. 47v–60v)

Coll. XIV

(fols. 60v–65v)

Coll. XV

(fols. 66r–77V)

Coll. XVI

(fols. 78r–96v)

Coll. XVII

(fols. 96v–97v)

Pref. to Coll. XVIII-XXIV

(fols. 97v–110v)

Coll. XVIII

(fols. 110v–120r)

Coll. XIX

(fols. 120r–127r)

Coll. XX

(fols. 127r–143v)

Coll. XXI

(fols. 143v–151v)

Coll. XXII

(fols. 152r–164r)

Coll. XXIII

(fols. 164r–178r)

Coll. XXIV

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (later paper) + i (later parchement) + 178 + i (later parchement) + i (later paper) folios

Dimensions (leaf): 268 × 170 mm.

Dimensions (written): 200 × 123 mm.

Foliation: i-ii, 1-180

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

Origin: c. 1170–90 ; German, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey

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

Description adapted (June 2019) from the following sources, with additional physical description:

Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 289 [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, acquisition]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 196

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 45

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-07-15: Additional description of script

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