MS. Laud Misc. 287
Summary Catalogue no.: 1247
Contents
Blank except for later ex libris inscriptions, and four verses on Origen attributed to Hugh of St Victor, Didascalicon (added 14th century, second half or early fifteenth century):
Followed by Rufinus's Praefatio ad Heraclium. Followed by a fragmentary Greek alphabet ('alfa' to ⟨theta⟩).
Physical Description
Decoration
Red silhouette and floral initials in green or yellow ground. Red silhouette initials. Probably by the same hand as MS. Laud Misc. 222 (cf. also MS. Laud Misc. 236) and London, British Library, Arundel MS. 245.
Binding
Laudian binding, rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Probably’ from the Eberbach scriptorium (Palmer).
Eberbach ex libris (fols. 1r, 140v), by a hand identifiable also in Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, Hss. 624, 674, 676, 680, 720, 730, 731.
Probably identifiable as e 6 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-07-09: Description revised for Polonsky German.