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MS. Laud Misc. 97

Summary Catalogue no.: 1213

Origen, Homiles on Joshua. Germany (Lorsch), 9th century, first half

Origen, Homilies on Joshua (tr. Rufinus )

Ed. W. A. Baehrens, GCS 30 (1921), pp. 286-463; the quires misbound after fol. 29, as noted below.

Fols. 1-29: quires 1-4 (a-d)

(fol. 1r–v)

Rubric: Incipit prologus Hieronimi super librum Iesu Naue ad Chromacium episcopum

Incipit: In diuinis uoluminibus refertur

Explicit: expetis ab indoctis

Prologue, by Rufinus; the lower half of fol. 1v is filled with the rubric for the following item.

(fol. 1v–6r)

Rubric: Incipit omelia prima tractatus super Iesu Nave

Incipit: (fol. 2r) Donauit Deus nomen quod est super

Homilia I

(fols. 6r–7r)

Homilia II

(fols. 7r–11r)

Homilia III

(fols. 11r–14r)

Homilia IV

(fols. 14r–17v)

Homilia V

(fols. 17v–19r)

Homilia VI

(fols. 19r–23v)

Homilia VII

(fols. 23v–26(b)v)

Homilia VIII

(fols. 26(b)v–29v)

Homilia IX.1-7

Explicit: Alii uero sunt qui et (ed. Baehrens 352.5)

Fols. 30-35: quire 9

(fol. 30r–v)

Homilia XXI.2

Incipit: turbidum mobilem scito quia (ed. Baehrens 430.17)

30v-32v

Homilia XXII

32v-35v

Homilia XXIII

(fol. 35v)

Homilia XXIV.1

Explicit: qui habitabant in Hierusalem (ed. Baehrens 447.22)

Fols. 36-43: quire 6 (f)

(fol. 36r–v)

Homilia XII.2-3

Incipit: populus dei hi uidelicet (ed. Baehrens 369.3)

(fols. 36v–38v)

Homilia XIII

(fols. 38v–41v)

Homilia XIV

(fols. 41v–43v)

Homilia XV.1-3

Explicit: ne ipsa quidem commotio (ed. Baehrens 386.18)

Fols. 44-51: quire 5 (e)

(fols. 44r–46v)

Homilia IX.7-10

Incipit: ipsi tendunt ad salutem (ed. Baehrens 352.5)

(fols. 46v–48v)

Homilia X

(fols. 48v–51r)

Homilia XI

(fol. 51r–v)

Homilia XII.1-2

Explicit: duce interficit (ed. Baehrens 369.3)

Fols. 52-59: quire 8

(fol. 52r)

Homilia XVII,3

Incipit: sed quasi benedictionem (ed. Baehrens 405.16)

(fols. 52r–53v)

Homilia XVIII

(fols. 53v–55r)

Homilia XIX

(fols. 55r–59r)

Homilia XX

(fol. 59r–v)

Homilia XXI.1-2

Explicit: aliquem inquietum (ed. Baehrens 430.17)

Fols. 60-66: quire 7

(fols. 60r–63r)

Homilia XV.3-7

Incipit: iracundię locum habeat (ed. Baehrens 386.18)

(fols. 63r–65(a)v)

Homilia XVI

(fols. 65(a)v–66v)

Homilia XVII.1-3

Explicit: sic non quasi ~~non~~ auaritiam (ed. Baehrens 405.16)

Fols. 67-72: quire 10

(fols. 67r–68r)

Homilia XXIV,1-3

Incipit: Dudum dictum est quomodo (ed. Baehrens 447.22)

(fols. 68r–70r)

Homilia XXV

(fols. 70v–72v)

Homilia XXVI

Explicit: ubi est uerus Israhel. In Christo Ihesu […]

At the bottom of fol. 72v is added (11th or 12th century?) Ps. 109.1-3, two hands.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 75 + i folios

Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 195 mm.

Foliation: i, 1-17, 18a-b, 19-25, 26a-b, 27-64, 65a-b, 66-72, 73

Collation

1(6+1) (last leaf added) (fols. 1-7), 2(8)-4(8) (fols. 8-29, including 18b, 26b), 9(6) (2 and 5 are half-sheets) (fols. 30-5), 6(8) (fols. 36-43), 5(8) (fols. 44-51), 8(8) (fols. 52-9), 7(8) (fols. 60-6, including 65b), 10(8-2) (6 and 7th leaves cancelled) (fols. 67-72), the quires misbound as described above. Quires 1-6 lettered a-f on the final verso, bottom centre

Layout

Ruled in hard point for one column of 29 lines (27 lines in quires 9-10), with a double vertical bounding lines. Ruled space 215 × 140 mm. (inner bounding lines); 210 × 140 mm. in quires 9-10.

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule by several hands, attributed by Bischoff to the Lorsch 'jüngerer Stil'.

Rubrics in rustic capitals, quires 1-8.

Rubrics in uncial (fol. 59r and quires 9-10); opening words of fol. 2r in uncial.

Decoration

4-line plain red initial D, fol. 2r; other initials in the ink of the text.

Binding

Laudian binding of calf over pasteboard, sewn on four supports; rebacked.

History

Origin: 9th century, first half or second quarter ; Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (Bischoff)

Provenance and Acquisition

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 229 (p. 271)).

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey, probably identifiable as the first part of F 15 in the catalogue of 1502 ('Omelie Iheronimi super ihesu naue Item liber scintillarum de charitate Initium In diuinis voluminibus refertur': N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 237; the second part is identified by Palmer as MS. Laud Misc. 631); probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18).

William Laud, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former shelfmark G. 48.

Record Sources

Description by Matthew Holford, August 2021. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 103

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 52

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile, and description by Michael Kautz, 2014)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (2004) II.3823 (as 9th century, second quarter)

Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed. (1989), 49 (9th century, first half)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-08: Description fully revised for digitization.

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