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MS. Laud Misc. 440

Summary Catalogue no.: 858

Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita; Germany, c. 1100

Language(s): Latin

(fols. 1r-152r)

Cassiodorus; Epiphanius Scholasticus, Historia tripartita

Rubric: In hoc opere continentur historiae ecclesiasticae ex Socrate, Sosomeno, et Theodoreto in unum collecte nuper de Greco in Latinum translate libri numero xii. Prefatio Cassiodori senatoris servi Dei.

Incipit: (prol.) Utiliter nimis incapite libri prefacio ponitur ubi futuri operis

Incipit: Aiunt antiquis principibus diligenciae studium fuisse

Explicit: consulatu septies decies imperatoris Theodosii per contuli. Explicit liber xii.

Textually related to BAV, Pat. lat. 824 (c. 1100, from Lorsch): W. Jacob, Die Handschrifliche Überlieferung der sogenannten Historia Tripartita (1954), pp. 100–1.

(fol. 152v)

Hymns with neums

Incipit: Vos secli iusti iudices

Chevalier 22148

Incipit: Integer ardorem rubus arida

WIC 9427.

Added in later hand.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 154 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 310–320 × 220–225 mm.

Dimensions (written): 245–260 × 160–190 mm.

Layout

Written in 2 columns, 33–35 lines; ruled with drypoint.

Musical Notation:

Added neums (fol. 152v)

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1297)

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: c. 1100 ; German, Bamberg (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Tentatively attributed to Bamberg by H. Hoffmann on grounds of script (Bamberger Handschriften des 10. und des 11. Jahrhunderts, MGH Schriften 39 (1995), p. 154)

Johannes nyma(n)tem frūt: 15th century inscription, fol. 152v.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1636.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen and Matthew Holford (February 2020) from the following sources, with additional physical description, and with reference to published literature as cited:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols. (1966–1973) I, no. 1297. [decoration, date, origin]

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]

Quarto Catalogue, col. 318

Quarto Catalogue, col. 319

Quarto Catalogue, p. 562

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 36