MS. Laud Misc. 274
Summary Catalogue no.: 1256
Jerome on Joel, Jonah, and Nahum; Germany, c. 1100
Contents
, Commentary on the Minor Prophets (Joel, Jonah, Nahum)
(fol. 1)
Joel (Stegmüller 3360)
(fol. 31)
Jonah (Stegmüller 3363)
(fol. 52)
Nahum (Stegmüller 3366)
Followed (fol. 78r-v) by prologues to Johah (Stegmüller 524) and Nahum (Stegmüller 528)
Fol. 79r, note on Basilides, from Augustine, De haeresibus, iv.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 79 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 328 × 235 mm.
Dimensions (written): 240 × 152 mm.
Layout
2 cols., 27 lines.
Decoration
Red floriate initials; animal initial, fol. 52r. Perhaps by the same hand as MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 57.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Identifiable as 'Erb. Mi. 134' in the "Rheinischen Gesamtkatalog" from the 1470s (now Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, cod. F VI 53, pp. 1-28, on p. 9).
Identifiable as F 18 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 (Oct. 2019) by Matthew Holford (with additional description of fol. 79r) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 101, 292 [physical description, date, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 49 [decoration, localization]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858-1885 [contents, decoration, localization, acquisition]
