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MS. Laud Misc. 547

Summary Catalogue no.: 1374

Ivo of Chartres, Panormia; German, 12th century, end

Contents

(fols. 1r–55r)
Ivo of Chartres, Panormia (lacking beginning)
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 55v)
List of numerals

Roman numerals and their written form in Latin (unus ... mille milia)

Explicit: Littera numerabilis minus significans si propter tantum demit de sequenti quantum in se habet. Littera numerabilis cui titulus superscribitur transit in millenarium numerum.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: se scire
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (paper) i + (parchment) + 55 + i (parchment) + i (paper) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210–18 × 130 mm.
Foliation: i-ii, 1–57

Collation

Quire signatures, viii-xiii (fols. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v).

Layout

Written in 2 columns, 34–35 lines.

Fol. 55v written in 27 long lines.

Hand(s)

Protogothic, above top line.

Decoration

Initials. Related in style to Eberbach MSS.

Red rubrics.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; German

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1636.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen (September 2020) from (with additional physical description):

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2020-09-28: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.