A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Misc. 72

Summary Catalogue no.: 1107

Contents

St. John's Gospel, with gloss
Incipit: (gloss) Omnibus divinae scripturae paginis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 115 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 258 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 178 × 138 mm.

Decoration

Decorated initial unfinished.

Coloured initials in red.

History

Origin: 12th century, first half or middle

Provenance and Acquisition

Magistri Rimundij’, 13th century.

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ex libris.

Identifiable as a23 in the 1502 Eberbach library catalogue.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 286 [physical description, date, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents]

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2019-02-11: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.