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MS. Laud Misc. 561

Summary Catalogue no.: 1246

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Fol. 1r blank except for ex libris and notes that the author of the text is called 'Gotefridus' or 'Godefridus'

(fols. 1v–140r)
Albertus Aquensis, Historia Hierosolymitana expeditionis (bks. 1–6)

Fol. 1va-2ra, capitula, beg. 'Proemium sequentis operis'; each book preceded by capitula.

Rubric: (fol. 2r) In nomine sancte et indiuidue trinitatis Incipit liber primus christiane expedicionis pro ereptione emundatione restitucione sancte ierosolimitane ecclesie
Incipit: DE VIA ET EXPEDITIONE IERVSALEM his usque diebus inaudita
Explicit: cum plurima manu suorum sequacium remansit

PL 166.389–568.

Fol. 140v blank except for pen-trials.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 140 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 257 × 173 mm.
Dimensions (written): 181 × 120 mm.

Decoration

Seven- to twelve-line silhouette initials in red at the beginning of each book.

Elsewhere two- or three-line coloured red initials with simple ornament.

Binding

Laudian binding of tanned calf over pulpboard, 1638 × 1639

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; Germany, possibly Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Possibly made at the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach (Palmer, p. 296).

Ex libris of Eberbach, late 12th century or 13th century, fol. 1r.

Probably identifiable as f 15 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502 (Palmer, p. 272: 'Gotfridus de expeditione christiana pars prima Initium Prohemium'; cf. note regarding authorship on fol. 1r).

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Oct. 2020), with additional description of contents and decoration, from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 272, 296 [physical description, date, origin, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols. (1966–1973) I, no. 108 ('c. 1200')
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, col. 403
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 53

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-10-27: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project.