MS. Laud Misc. 251
Summary Catalogue no.: 1225
Contents
, Recognitiones
Language(s): Latin
(fols. 134v–135r)
Verses, added fifteenth century: Incipit: Qui bene vult
Walther, Sent. 23854 Incipit: Servitium dominis
Walther, Sent. 28173a Incipit: Gravis est transire transitus absque redire
Incipit: Est grave ridere
WIC 5677 Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 135 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 281 × 182 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 132 mm.
Decoration
Red initials with occasional decoration
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Erased ownership inscription, fol. 1r: ‘et est liber sancti ⟨............⟩’
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ex libris, fols. 1r, 135r.
Identifiable as g 19 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 (April 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 291 [physical description, date, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 99 [origin]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents]
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-04-08: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer, Pächt and Alexander and Quarto catalogue.