MS. Laud Lat. 109

Summary Catalogue no.: 1483

1. (fol. 2)

Pauline Epistles, partly (Romans) with gloss

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 94)

Song of Songs

Language(s): Latin

3. (fol. 99)

Ezekiel (excerpts)

Rubric: Textus Omeliarum super Gregorium, super Ezechielem prophetum

Language(s): Latin

4. (fol. 104v)

Lamentations

Final rubric: Explicit lamentacio

Language(s): Latin

5. (fol. 114)

Pictor in carmine

Rubric: Colloquium Gabriel et Virginis de Incarnatione Verbi

Incipit: Dicit Deus serpenti de muliere, Ipsa conteret

Incipit: Fit caput exangue, planta mulieris in angue

Language(s): Latin

6. (fol. 122)

Glosses on Twelve Minor Prophets

Incipit: Osee. Verbum Domini. Non sibi soli sed Deo

Language(s): Latin

7. (fol. 129)

Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae

Incipit: Incipit summula fratris Raimundi

In four books.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 223 leaves; small folio

Binding

Contemporary binding (white skin over boards).

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning

Provenance and Acquisition

Waltham, Essex, Augustinian abbey of Holy Cross: 'xliij al. p.' on verso of pastedown (fol. i recto), s. xv. 'liber ecclesie Sancte crucis de Waltham quem qui abstulerit uel hunc titulum maliciose deleverit anathema sit amen.' (fol. ii recto), s. xiii. 'Epistole Pauli. Prioris Will.' (fol. ii recto), s. xv; cf. 'Willi priori[is]' on end of pastedown. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

John Lambe (Quarto Catalogue, p. xxxiv)

William Laud, 1573-1645: given to him by Lambe in 1632.

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian Library, 22 May 1635.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from 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. 50

Quarto Catalogue, p. 542 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 63