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MS. Laud Misc. 417

Summary Catalogue no.: 892

Jerome on Jeremiah; Germany (Lorsch), 9th century, first half

Contents

(fols 2r–168v)
Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 168 medieval leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 278 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 155 mm.

Layout

1 col., 24 lines

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule by several hands including some not trained at Lorsch (Bischoff 2004).

Decoration

Rubrics.

Plain initials.

Binding

Calf over pasteboard: standard binding of the Laudian collection.

History

Origin: 9th century, first half (second quarter?) ; Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (Bischoff)

Provenance and Acquisition

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the 9th-century library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 164)

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: identifiable as F19 in the 1502 catalogue (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 238). The manuscript was probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18). Late-medieval leaf signatures as found in other Lorsch/Eberbach manuscripts (Summary Catalogue II.i.38)

William Laud, acquired 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

MS. Laud Misc. 417, endleaf (fol. 1)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Ambrose, Commentary on Ps. 118 (12.16-20)

See MS. Laud Misc. 130 fol. 1 for another fragment from the same manuscript.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 224 × 177 mm.

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule (Bischoff).

History

Origin: 9th century, first half (second quarter?) ; Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (Bischoff)

Provenance

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the 9th-century library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 213); for later provenance see above.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2022) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), pp. 101, 238, 295, 315 (no. 39)
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 306
Quarto Catalogue, p. 561
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 38

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile)

Bibliography

    Michael Kautz, Bibliothek und Skriptorium des ehemaligen Klosters Lorsch: Katalog der erhaltenen Handschriften (Wiesbaden, 2016)
    Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts II (2004) nos. 3835, 3857
    Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed. (1989), 49-50, 110-13

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-07: Description revised with reference to cited catalogues and literature.