MS. Laud Lat. 102
Summary Catalogue no.: 1315
Gospel Book; Fulda, 9th century, first quarter
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. 264–74. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Fols. [i] recto - [iv] verso blank.
Canon tables
Addition in an originally blank space, c. 900.
Pr. J. Hofmann, ‘Das älteste Kiliansoffizium’, in Heiliges Franken. Festchronik zum Jahr der Frankenapostel 1952 (Würzburg, 1952) 81–83Capitula to Matthew
Matthew
Capitula to Mark
Mark
Capitula to Luke
Luke
John
Fols. [211r]-[214v] blank.
One marginal pen gloss, 9th century, first third (in either Fulda or Würzburg) fol. 9r
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in hard point. Fols. 9–210: one column of 23–26 lines. Ruled space c. 196–217 × 116–37 mm.
Hand(s)
Five hands or groups of hands (fols. 9r-38v7; fols. 38v8–59r; fols. 59v-78v1, 79v4–170v; fols. 171r-207r; 207v-210v), writing German Anglo-Saxon minuscule and Carolingian minuscule, 9th century, first quarter.
Fols. 78v2–79v4, erased text, written over by a hand from Würzburg belonging to the Hunbert group. Fol. 14r, l. 21–v added at Würzburg, St Kilians, in Carolingian minuscule.
Decoration
Good canon tables, initials, Fulda, 9th century, first third (Pächt and Alexander i. 6, pl. 1): canon tables on fols. 1r–8v
Initials on fols. 9r, 12r, 15r, 16r, 20r, 72r, 112r, and 174v.
Red rubrics, monumental capitals, quire signatures and headers.
Binding
Conserved and rebound by Sabina Pugh at the Bodleian Library, March 2016 - December 2017. Inboard binding of alum-tawed calkskin over quarter-sawn oak boards, with the spine covering and the tawed spine lining not adhered to the spine of the manuscript. The secondary endbands are sewn with indigo dyed and natural linen threads, and the spine covering is mechanically attached beneath the endband cores by a saddle stitch, sewn with an indigo-dyed linen thread. The boards and endleaves from the previous Laudian binding have been preserved.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, early on: added text, fols. 78v-79r, and (later) fol. 14r. Domstift shelfmark, 15th century, fol. 2r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 9r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (37 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-08-01: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.