MS. Laud Misc. 260
Summary Catalogue no.: 1127
Contents
(fols. 2r–78r)
, Expositio officii missae Incipit: Circa inicium officii missae est notandum primo
Incipit: Reverendi patres ac domini, cogitante mihi crebrius ac diligenti indagine
Incipit: Ad honorem benedicte et individue Trinitatis sanctorumque patronorum hujus dyocesis, scilicet, Sancti Johannis Baptiste et Sancti Laurencii martiris, necnon pro felici incremento alme Universitatis Lubscensis aggressus laborem grandum
Incipit: Quantum ad primum canonem dico quod Sacra Scriptura quantum ad presens occurrit, novem de causis ferventer est studenda
Explicit: a laude ergo quia incepimus, a laude quoque terminemus, ut in eternum laudemus Eum Qui vivit et regnat in secula seculorum Amen: Deo gracias.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 78 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 297 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 168 mm.
Decoration
Red initial with red-green penwork, by the same hand as the initials in MS. Laud Misc. 586 (datable after 1464) and Wiesbaden LB, HS. 21 (dated 1458).
Coloured red initials.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Attributed (‘probably’) to the Eberbach scriptorium by Palmer.
Characteristic Eberbach table of contents, c. 1500 (fols. 1r)
Perhaps identifiable as part of I 14 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
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 [contents, physical description, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), p. 72 [list of manuscripts with penwork initials]
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-02-15: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.