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MS. Laud Misc. 257

Summary Catalogue no.: 998

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)

Bede, De templo Salomonis

Rubric: Incipit prologus Bede presbiteri in exposicionem templi Domini

2. (fol. 66v)

Haimo of Auxerre (Ps.-Haimo of Halberstadt, Ps.-Cassiodorus), Commentary on the Song of Songs

Rubric: Incipit prologus in expositione Canticum Canticorum

Incipit: Salomon inspiratus divino Spiritu

Incipit: Desiderantis vox est synagoge

3. (fol. 128)

Bruno de Segni, Commentary on Apocalypse (incomplete)

Rubric: Incipit prologus in expositione libri Apocalipsis beati Johannis Apostoli

Explicit: querite faciem ejus semper, et nomen ejus in frontibus eorum||

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 234 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 193 mm.

Dimensions (written): 185–190 × 115 mm.

Hand(s)

Cistercian punctuation (partly original, partly added).

Decoration

Fine initials in the style of MSS. from Messina. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 62, pl. VI)

Coloured initials in red, blue and green.

Accompanying Material

The front flyleaf is a reject leaf from a breviary (?) comprising Psalm 94 and a kalendar (archdiocese of Trier) for March and April; German, c. 1200.

History

Origin: c. 1180–90 ; Italian, Sicily

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: identifiable as H 10 in the library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2019) from the following sources:

Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 72, 75–6, 291 [contents, physical description, date, origin, provenance]; p. 315 [= Fragm. 33; endleaf]

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, endleaf]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 217

Quarto Catalogue, p. 554

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 42

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2019-02-07: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.

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