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MS. Laud Misc. 257

Summary Catalogue no.: 998

Contents

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. (P&A 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

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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