MS. Laud Misc. 433
Summary Catalogue no.: 1310
Contents
Bk. II, fol. 37v; III, fols. 92v-93r; IV, fol. 126r; V, fol. 160r-v.
Added note 'Impeda' (?), fol. 186v, 14th(?) century.
Fol. 1r blank except for 'nicpuiae' (?) and pen trial beginning 'adsum ...'; fol. 187r blank except for offset of 'impeda' on fol. 186v; fol. 187v blank except for pen trials including 'Pater noster', 'Ecce vere Ishrahelita ...' (cf. Cantus index 006862a), 'Gaude visceribus ...' (cf. Cantus index 008307).
On fol. 89r ‘hadarat’ is an early annotation, possibly as suggested by Bischoff the name of a corrector.
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
2 columns, usually of 28 lines (but e.g. fols. 126r-133v, 27 lines; fols. 136r-139v, 25 lines); ruled space 225 × 165 mm. (to inner vertical bounding lines).
Hand(s)
Caroline minuscule by several hands.
Rubrics and opening line of chapters typically in uncial.
Fol. 1v filled with a rubric in square capitals.
Other rubrics occasionally in rustic capitals.
Decoration
The opening lines of bk. I, chs. 1-3 (fols. 7r, 8v, 9r) in uncial in yellow (fols. 7r, 9r) or black (fol. 8v) on a crimson (fol. 7r), yellow (fol. 8v) or green (fol. 9r) ground in a plain red (fol. yr), green (fol. 8v) or crimson (fol. 9r) border; decorated initial 'S' on fol. 7r in yellow and red extending into animal heads.
Larger initials at the beginning of most books: 'O' in red and black with reserved ground, fol. 37v; elaborate interlace 'I' in black, fol. 93r; interlace 'O' in black, red, and yellow, fol. 126r; plain black 'O', fol. 160v.
Each section typically with a 3-line plain ink initial, occasionally with modest decorative elements (e.g. fols. 21v, 92r, 109r, 166v (with a face)).
Binding
A standard binding of the Laudian collection, calf over pasteboard with the Laudian arms in gilt on each cover; rebacked.
Former chained binding: marks of a chain-staple fol. 1, top centre.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Associated by Bischoff with two other manuscripts (BAV Pal. Lat. 246 and MS. Laud Misc. 452 fols. 1-191) of uncertain origin, not identifiable as written at Lorsch (although perhaps from its area), but corrected there in the ninth century.
Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the Carolingian library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 185, p. 258).
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: probably one of the manuscripts transferred from Lorsch to Eberbach in the second quarter of the thirteenth century. Seemingly identifiable as H6 in the catalogue of 1502: 'Sentencie beati gregorii Initium Dominus[sic] michi valde etc.' (Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 18, 98-101, 239).
William Laud, acquired 1638 (inscription, fol. 1v).
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639; former shelfmark H. 47 (inside cover).
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-01-25: Description revised for digitization.