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MS. Laud Misc. 455

Summary Catalogue no.: 1329

Language(s): Latin

Fols. i-iii, 272-4 blank.

(fols. 1r–271v)

Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

Rubric: In Christi nomine incipit explanatio sancti Hieronymi in Esaiam prophetam. Incipit prologus

Incipit: Expletis longo uix tempore in xii prophetas

Explicit: (fol. 2r) modum breuitatis excedunt, sed iam propositum prosequamur.

Incipit: (fol. 2r) Uisio Esaie filii Amos quam uidit super Iudam […] Pro Iuda in quo significantur duae tribus

Explicit: ipse ad oculos pertinet et stridorem||

Ending imperfect due to loss of a leaf at the end. Bk. 2, fol. 14r; bk. 3, fol. 28v; bk. 4, fol. 43v; bk. 5, fol. 54r-v; bk. 6, fol. 75v; bk. 7, fol. 90r; bk. 8, fol. 107r-v; bk. 9, fol. 119r; bk. 10, fol. 137r; bk. 11, fol. 148v, bk. 12, 162r; bk. 13, fol. 175r; bk. 14, fol. 189v; bk. 15, fol. 205v; bk. 16, fol. 219r; bk. 17, fol. 235r; bk. 18, fol. 252r-v. Text at the head of fol. 122r (a new quire) struck through to continue from fol. 121v.

Commentaires de Jérôme sur le prophète Isaïe, ed. R. Gryson (1993-1999), siglum Ox.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment (usually HFFH)

Extent: ii + i + 271 + i + ii leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 370 × 270 mm.

Foliation: i-iii, 1-274

Collation

1-7(8) (fols. 1-56), 8(6-1, 3 cancelled before fol. 59) (fols. 57-61), 9-10(8), 11(6) (fols. 62-83), 12(8) (fols. 84-91), 13(8-1, 8 last leaf cancelled) (fols. 92-8), 14(probably 4+2 with fol. 99 added at the beginning of the quire and fol. 104 added at the end) (fols. 99-104), 15(8) (fols. 105-112), 16(8+1, leaf added (fol. 120) between 7 and 8 (?)) (fols. 113-121), 17(8-1, 1 canc. before fol. 122) (fols. 122-8), 18-21(8) (fols. 129-160), 22(10) (fols. 161-9), 23(6+2: fols. 171-2, a bifolium, are later supply leaves) (fols. 171-8), 24-28(8) (fols. 179-218), 29(6) (fols. 219-224), 30-34(8) (fols. 225-264), 35(8-1, last leaf lost with loss of text). Later paper guards between fols. 61/62, 83/4, 128/9, 152/3, 178/9, 194/5, 218/9, 248/9. Quires numbered in roman on the final verso, bottom centre; earlier numbering erased in places (see Kautz).

Condition

Outer margin of fols. 76, 160 excised, with damage to fols. 74, 75, 159; lower margin of fol. 78 excised.

Layout

Ruled in drypoint for 1 col., 37 lines; ruled space c. 250 × 180 mm.

Fols. 171-2: 1 col., 40 lines

Sporadic running heads in books 15-16 (fols. 207-220).

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule by several hands; fols. 17r-40v by a scribe influenced by St Vaast script who also wrote MS. Laud Misc. 133 fols. 1-89 and Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 211 (Kautz; Bischoff, 1989, p. 42).

Rubrics on fols. 1r and 162r and 205v in square capitals.

Rubrics on fols. 75v and 119r and 175r in rustic capitals.

Other rubrics and sometimes the first line of each book in uncial.

Decoration

Plain initials in the ink of the text, occasionally (e.g fols. 43v, 75r) with modest decoration.

Marginal sketches, 11th century (?), fols. 84r (animal), 121v (partial human figure) (Pächt and Alexander i. 20, pl. III)

Additions:

Extensive contemporary corrections and (in places) alterations to punctuation.

Extensive contemporary and later nota marks.

Binding

Standard Laudian binding, rebacked.

History

Origin: 9th century, second quarter or middle ; German, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (Bischoff 2004)

Provenance and Acquisition

Lorsch abbey: identifiable in the ninth-century catalogues: A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 163 (p. 245)

Cistercian abbey of Eberbach: probably identifiable as F14 in the 1502 catalogue, 'Iheronimus super ysaiam Initium In christi nomine Incipit etc.' (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), pp. 237, 295); probably also in the 'Rheinischen Gesamtkatalog' of the 1470s (ibid., p. 229). Probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (ibid., p. 18)

William Laud, 1638: inscription, fol. 1r.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former shelfmark H. 66 (fol. 1r)

Record Sources

Description by Matthew Holford (Dec. 2021). Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 327–8

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 57

Digital Images

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

Bibliography

Online resources:

Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital [pdf; description by Michael Kautz, 2014, = Michael Kautz, Bibliothek und Skriptorium des ehemaligen Klosters Lorsch: Katalog der erhaltenen Handschriften (Wiesbaden, 2016)]

Printed descriptions:

Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (2004) II.3866

Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed. (1989), 52, 112-3

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12: Description revised for digitization project.

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