MS. Laud Lat. 12

Summary Catalogue no.: 1511

Language(s): Latin

Bible

Incomplete: ends at IV Esdras 'nec enim meliores nos simus'

Preceded by:

Evrard de Béthune, Graecismus

Fragment.

Incipit: Namque gero pondus sevaque bella gero

Tituli capitulorum Bibliae

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 279 leaves; quarto

Binding

16th century blind-stamped centrepiece binding, rebacked.

History

Origin: 13th century, first half

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: On fol. 10r: "Liber sancti Cuthberti de dunelm. [added:] assig[...] collegio O[...] [and a rough] B" (corrected from C). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

At Durham College, Oxford (Surtees Soc. cat., p. 85) 1446.

"George Hobson byblatysta huius collegii."

"Liber Iohannis Paine ex dono Johannis Rotherham, militis, de Summeress [Someries in Luton], Bedfordiensis, anno Domini 1614 Septemb. vii." (MLGB3)

William Laud, 1573-1645, by 1633.

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

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) 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. 10

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 65