MS. Laud Misc. 92
Summary Catalogue no.: 986
Fulgentius of Ruspe, etc.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 316–323. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Fol. 1v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in hard point. One col. of 25 lines, ruled space c. 222–6 × 154–65 mm.
Hand(s)
Carolingian minuscule by several hands.
Rubrics in uncial.
Rubrics in rustic capitals.
Decoration
Decorated initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 15)
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written either at Würzburg by scribes trained at Niederaltaich, or at Niederaltaich. Originally bound together with MS. Laud Misc. 580, probably together from the time of their production.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, 12th-century ex libris, fol. 1r, and 15th-century shelfmark, fol. 2r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1v.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-03-08: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.