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MS. Laud Misc. 563

Summary Catalogue no.: 1111

Albertus Aquensis; Germany (Eberbach?), 12th century, end

Contents

(fols. 1r–119r)
Albertus Aquensis, Historia Hierosolymitana expeditionis (bks. 7–12)
(fols. 1r–119r)

Capitula to bk. 7 (incomplete, beginning at c. 29)

Incipit: (fol. 1v) Cives Assur vulgariter Arsich ex consilio invidorum
Explicit: cum captivis Christianis cum spoliis Christianorum immissi sunt.

Added note in another, contemporary hand at the end of the text: Anno milleno centeno quo minus uno Iherusalem Franci capiunt virtute potenti.

Part 2 (containing books 7–12) of a 2 volume set. For the first part, see MS. Laud Misc. 561.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 119 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 256 × 168 mm.
Dimensions (written): 179 × 123 mm.

Decoration

Red (fol. 1v red and blue) silhouette initials.

Binding

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

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Petrus von Lautern: name inscribed in Greek letters, πετρυσ δει λυτρου, fol. 119r.

Identifiable as f 16 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen (November 2019) from the following sources (with additional description of contents):
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 147, 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.
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]
Quarto Catalogue, col. 404
Quarto Catalogue, p. 571
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 47

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-11-21: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.