MS. Laud Misc. 290
Summary Catalogue no.: 1333
Contents
(fols. 111vb-112ra)
Verses on simony Incipit: Signat musi petri uarii narramina metri
Explicit: Ergo ferat seuas iudas cum symone penas
WIC 18195, here 65 lines. Contemporary addition.
(fol. 112rb)
Prayer to the Virgin Incipit: ⟨A⟩ue maria a deo preelecta ianua celi ortus benedictionis
Explicit: mundissimum habitaculum dei
Contemporary addition.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 112 + i folios
Dimensions (leaf): 349 × 233 mm.
Dimensions (written): 268 × 180 mm.
Foliation: '1–2' (one folio), 3–95, 96a, 96b, 97–113
Decoration
Red 'silhouette' initials.
Binding
Laudian binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Possibly’ from the Eberbach scriptorium (Palmer).
Characteristic Eberbach annotations.
Identifiable as a 32 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 (July 2019) from the following sources, with additional description of fol. 112:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 102, 293 [physical description, date, 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)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-07-09: Description revised for Polonsky German.