MS. Laud Misc. 349
Summary Catalogue no.: 1289
Contents
Liber testimoniorum ueteris testamenti ex opusculis S. Gregorii (imperfect at end)
, Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 231 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 138 mm.
Dimensions (written): 178 × 93 mm.
Decoration
Red-brown floriate initial on yellow ground (fol. 1r). Red initials with occasional decoration.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Identifiable as H 5 in the library catalogue of Eberbach Abbey, 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Description adapted (July 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 294 [physical description, date, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, localization, acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 94
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-07-10: Description revised for Polonsky German.