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