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MS. Laud Misc. 74

Summary Catalogue no.: 1121

Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; France(?), 13th century, beginning

Contents

(fols. 1r–238r)
Petrus Comestor, 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
(fol. 238v)

Various short theological notes written on originally blank leaf.

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

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; French (?)

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
Quarto Catalogue, col. 88
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 48

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-02-06: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from printed descriptions.

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