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MS. Laud Misc. 274

Summary Catalogue no.: 1256

Jerome on Joel, Jonah, and Nahum; Germany, c. 1100

Jerome, Commentary on the Minor Prophets (Joel, Jonah, Nahum)

(fol. 1)

Joel (Stegmüller, Bibl. 3360)

(fol. 31)

Jonah (Stegmüller, Bibl. 3363)

(fol. 52)

Nahum (Stegmüller, Bibl. 3366)

Followed (fol. 78r-v) by prologues to Johah (Stegmüller, Bibl. 524) and Nahum (Stegmüller, Bibl. 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

Origin: c. 1100 ; German

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]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 225

Quarto Catalogue, p. 555

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 54