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MS. Laud Lat. 104

Summary Catalogue no.: 838

Contents

Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters

Imperfect: see Kautz for details.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 103 medieval leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 254 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 182 × 140 mm.

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule, attributed by Bischoff to the 'Palace School' of Louis the Pious.

Decoration

Rubrics.

Coloured and plain initials.

Binding

Rebound, 1989-1994

History

Origin: 9th century, first half ; German, Aachen (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Bischoff identified Erlangen, Univ.-Bibl. 2112, Nr. 7 (fragment of Sidonius, Carmina) as originally part of the same manuscript.

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (?): Lorsch provenance inferred by Bischoff from later Eberbach provenance (see below); not certainly identifiable in the 9th-century Lorsch catalogues.

Eberbach, Cisterican abbey: identified ('warscheinlich') by Nigel Palmer as D2 (part 2) in the catalogue of 1502 ('Epistole Sidonij'); the first part of D1 is now MS. Laud Lat. 21. Characteristic Eberbach annotations (Quarto Catalogue, p. xxv). Probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18)

William Laud, 1573–1645, acquired 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, given in 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2022) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), pp. 234, 285
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)
Quarto Catalogue, p. 542 (addenda)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 36

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital (full facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Michael Kautz, Bibliothek und Skriptorium des ehemaligen Klosters Lorsch: Katalog der erhaltenen Handschriften (Wiesbaden, 2016)
    Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (2004)
    Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed. (1989),

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-08: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.