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MS. Laud Misc. 88

Summary Catalogue no.: 828

Language(s): Latin

1. (fols. 1r–20r)

Geoffrey of Auxerre, De colloquio Simonis et Iesu

Rubric: Incipit prologus beati Bernardi abbatis in opus sequens de verbis evangelii, Dixit Symon Petrus ad Jhesum, Ecce nos reliquimus omnia, et cetera

Incipit: Ut tibi, dilectissime, presentes exhortationis cedulas destinarem

Incipit: De colloquio Symonis et Jhesu capitulum primum. Dixit Simon Petrus ad Jhesum, Ecce nos reliquimus etc. Fidelis sermo et dignum omni acceptione colloquium

Explicit: ut vitam habeamus et habundantius habeamus; Jhesus Christus […]

2. (fols. 20v–52r)

Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione

Rubric: Incipit liber primus beati Bernardi abbatis de Consideratione ad Eugenium papam

3. (fols. 52v–58v)

Text on Titus and Vespasian and the destruction of the Temple

Incipit: Sciendum est Petrum imminente tempore passionis sue, Clementem sibi substituisse

Explicit: Tytus itaque cum tali triumpho Judeorum Ytaliam copiose ditavit.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 1 + 58 + i fols., foliated i, ii, 1–58, 59

Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 170 mm.

Dimensions (written): 190 × 125 mm.

Decoration

Initials in red and (once) blue, with occasional penwork flourishing.

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning

Provenance and Acquisition

Erased inscription, fol. 58v.

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ex libris.

Possibly identifiable as d 24 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (April 2019) from the following sources:

Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p, 286 [date, physical description, provenance]

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 97–8

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 35