MS. Laud Misc. 234
Summary Catalogue no.: 1125
Isidore of Seville, Augustine, etc.; Germany (?Eberbach), 13th century, early or middle
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fol. 1v, preface; fols. 1v-2r, capitula; fol. 3r, bk. 1; fol. 24r, capitula for bk. 2; fol. 24v, bk. 2.
Cf. Susan Keefe, A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscripts (Turnhout, 2012), text 158 (pp. 114–15) (Dionysius Exiguus (?), Annotatio ad symbolum Nicaenum)
⟨Nicene Creed⟩
PL 56.582; Keefe, Creed, text 212 (p. 133); CPL 789.
Keefe, Creed, text 269 (p. 155), CPL 1747, as pr. A. E. Burn, The Athanasian Creed and its Early Commentaries (1896), p. 28–39, here ending in c. 19 (p. 31).
Unidentified paragraph on the interpretation of scripture.
BHL 4218; text varies considerably from E. von Dobschütz, Christusbilder: Untersuchungen zur christlichen Legende (1889), Beilagen, 163**-190**.
Verses, etc.; contemporary addition.
WIC 20826, , largely as pr. Romanische Forschungen VI (1891), 2–4
Seven numbered lines followed by a couplet.
WIC 18983, six lines
Twelve lines
Four lines
WIC 14399, two lines.
Additions, late fourteenth or fifteenth centruy: Eberbach ex libris; pen trials; added verses:
WIC 19484, 3 lines.
Physical Description
Decoration
Coloured initials (red, one blue) with very sparse decoration.
Binding
Standard Laudian binding, 1630s.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Probably’ from the Eberbach scriptorium (Palmer).
Eberbach ex libris, late 14th or 15th century (fol. 86v)
Identifiable as d 8 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-19: Revised for Polonsky German