MS. Laud Misc. 250
Summary Catalogue no.: 1309
A Gregory the Great, Homilies; Germany, s. xiv2/4; B Cassian, Collations; Germany (Eberbach) s. xii3/4
Physical Description
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript consists of two parts, one from the Mainz Charterhouse, the other from Eberbach abbey; consolidated (together with the front flyleaf, a fragment) in the course of the Laudian binding, in the late 1630s.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1br.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
MS. Laud Misc. 250 – Part A (fols. 1b-77)
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in ink, two columns of 44 lines. Ruled space c. 204–11 × 134–37 mm.
Hand(s)
German textualis by a single hand.
Corrections and marginal annotations, mainly by hands of s. xivex & s. xv, some of which are clearly from the Mainz Charterhouse.
Decoration
Red rubrics, majuscules stroked in red.
History
Provenance
Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: the 15th-century ex-libris inscriptions (upper margin of fol. 1br, and, in the same hand, fol. 76v).
MS. Laud Misc. 250 – Part B (fols. 78–183)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
blank, except for a title of s. xii/xiii (?)
Part 2 (nos. 11–17) is MS. Laud Misc. 230.
Fol. 134r blank.
Fol. 154v blank.
The text breaks off shortly before the end of coll. 8.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in lead point, mostly one column of hand B1) 32, B2) 32–35 lines. Ruled space hand B1) c. 213–21 × 142–46 mm. Ruled space hand B2) c. 208–17 × 125–28 mm.
Hand(s)
Protogothic script, mainly by two Cistercian hands, from Eberbach, above top line: B1) (fols. 78v–133v; 155r–183r) the hand is occasionally interrupted; B2) (fols. 134va–154r) smaller script.
Decoration
To the preface and each collatio red initials of three to ten lines, mostly with split body and minimal decoration; to each chapter one- to five-line initials in red.
Scribal red rubrics.
History
Provenance
The present book formed together with MS. Oxford, Bodl., Laud Misc. 230 (178 fols), which contains Collationes 11–24, a Cassian volume; both copies were written at Eberbach; they do not share hands (cf. Palmer, Zisterzienser, 64), but presumably were corrected in the same hand, using black ink. Both parts likely once formed e 10–11 in the library catalogue of 1502 (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 64, 166, 270 & 291).
MS. Laud Misc. 250 - endleaf (fol. 1a)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fragment, January on the recto, February on the verso.
A waste leaf, hooked around the first quire, the stub between quires i/ii. The lower part of the leaf affected by trimming, with text loss; a large blank upper margin.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in the ink of the text, several columns, 29/30 lines preserved.
Hand(s)
Textualis formata by one hand.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-21: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.