MS. Laud Lat. 117
Summary Catalogue no.: 1253
Servius; Donatus grammaticus; Germany, s. xi.
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. 309–13. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruling in hard point; one column of 35–37 lines. Ruled space c. 230–41 × 131–48 mm.
Hand(s)
Late German Carolingian minuscule, s. xi, by several hands.
Decoration
Plain two- to four-line initials in red or the ink of the text to bks 6–12; (item 2) a three-, (item 3) a two-line initial in the ink of the text.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written in Germany, s. xi, based on palaeographical features.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian (?): (fol. 128v) at the upper margin ‘Kilianus bonus’, and (fol. 130v) ‘pequs [?] Kilianus’.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1r.
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-20: Description revised for Polonsky digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.