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MS. Laud Lat. 101

Summary Catalogue no.: 1260

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. 256–61. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

Ezekiel and Twelve Minor Prophets

(fol. 1r)

Note of contents, late 14th century.

(fols. 1v–79v)

Ezekiel; fols. 1v-2r, Jerome's prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 492); fol. 2ra-v, capitula.

Fol. 80r-v blank.

(fol. 81r)

Jerome's prologue to the Minor Prophets (Stegmüller, Bibl. 500).

(fols. 81r–92v)

Hosea; prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 504), fol. 81r-v.

(fols. 92v–98r)

Joel; four prologues, fols. 92v-93r (cf. Stegmüller, Bibl. 510), fol. 93r (Stegmüller, Bibl. 5208), fol. 93r (Stegmüller, Bibl. 509), fols. 93r-94r (Stegmüller, Bibl. 511).

(fols. 99v–107v)

Amos; two prologues, fols. 98v-99r (Stegmüller, Bibl. 515), fol. 99r (cf. Stegmüller, Bibl. 512).

(fols. 107v–108v)

Obadiah

(fols. 108v–111r)

Jonah

(fols. 111r–117r)

Micah

(fols. 117r–119v)

Nahum

(fols. 119v–122r)

Habakkuk

(fols. 122r–125r)

Zephania

(fols. 125r–127r)

Haggai

(fols. 127r–138r)

Zechariah

(fols. 138r–141r)

Malachi

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

i + 141 + 1 leaves, foliated i, 1–142

Dimensions (leaf): c. 304–11 × 229–40 mm.

Layout

Ruled mostly in lead point (quires 13–14 hard point), mostly 1 column, 21- (mostly) 22 lines. Ruled space c. 205–20 × 140–7 mm.

Hand(s)

Protogothic script, several hands.

Decoration

Good decorated initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 58)

Coloured initials.

Rubrics in red.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

History

Origin: German, Würzburg, St. Kylian (?); 12th century, first half

Provenance and Acquisition

MSS. Laud Lat. 100, 101, 103, 266 are all plain text books of the Bible marked up for reading aloud.

Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: late 12th-cent ex-libris, fols. 1r, 2r.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 2r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

See above. 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. 46

Quarto Catalogue, p. 541 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 54