MS. Laud Misc. 74
Summary Catalogue no.: 1121
Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; France(?), 13th century, beginning
Contents
(fols. 1r–238r)
, Historia scholastica Incipit: ||(beg. impf.) vel quadratis, alia littera vel bituminatis
Explicit: et in loco magis honorabilis quia in catacumbis.
Final rubric: Explicit historia Auctuum[sic] Apostolorum.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 239 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 180–185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 110–120 mm.
Layout
Written above top line in 2 columns of 43 lines.
Decoration
Large red and blue puzzle initials with red and blue penwork on fols. 56v, 69v, 89r, 213r; small initials alternating in red and blue with some pen-flourishing in the other colour.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Various annotations, some in a German hand
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Description adapted by Tuija Ainonen (February 2020) from the following source (with additional description of the contents, decoration and measurements):
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-02-06: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.