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

MS. Laud Misc. 76

Summary Catalogue no.: 1217

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 119 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 202 × 125 mm.

Layout

Cistercian punctuation.

Decoration

Decorated initials.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Attributed by Palmer to the Eberbach scriptorium.

Characteristic Eberbach annotations.

Identifiable as g10 in the 1502 Eberbach library catalogue.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2019) from Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 286. Previously described in 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)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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