MS. Laud Misc. 266
Summary Catalogue no.: 1261
Pauline Epistles; Germany, s. xiimid.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 583–8. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Fols. i-ii verso blank.
List of chapters.
Fols. 126r-127v mostly blank, except for some pen trials and (computistic mnemonic) verses including WIC 16726.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point; one column of 21 or (mostly) 22 widely-spaced lines of text per page. Ruled space c. 215–20 × 137–45 mm.
Hand(s)
German protogothic, s. xiimid, by one hand.
Decoration
Fleuronnée initial (f. 1r), added 14th century, first half. (Pächt and Alexander i. 141);
Fols. 6v–97v: unfilled space for coloured initials
Red rubrics, occasionally in mixed capitals.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written in Germany, s. xiimid, as evidenced by script and decoration.
Traditionally considered to have been in the possession of the Domstift St Kilian, Würzburg (Krämer, Handschrifenerbe, 2. 852); format and style of the book are very similar to that of MSS. Laud Lat. 101 (Pauline Epistles, Domstift St Kilian) and Laud Lat. 100 & 103 (both Neumünster)
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-07-04: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.