MS. Laud Misc. 441
Summary Catalogue no.: 859
Glossed books of Job, Tobit, Judith and Esther; 13th century, beginning
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
Written in the 'alternating lines' format for up to 48 lines of marginal gloss; the marginal gloss written above top line.
Up to 24 lines of text with interlinear gloss.
Decoration
Large red and blue puzzle initials (fols. 2v, 93v) with pen-flourishes. Alternating red and blue intials with pen-flourishes. Running headings in red and blue capitals.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Origin and medieval provenance uncertain. Regarded by Hunt as written in Germany (annotation to the Quarto catalogue) but perhaps more likely to be French. Hunt suggested (Quarto Catalogue, p. xxiv) that this was one of the volumes acquired for archbishop Laud in Germany; thirteenth- and fourteenth-century annotation in ink and crayon/drypoint, possibly in German script, may lend support to this. Not identifiable in the medieval library catalogues of the Eberbach Cistercians or the Mainz Carthusians.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-11-05: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.