MS. Laud Lat. 2

Summary Catalogue no.: 904

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)

Azo, Summa Codicis (i-IX)

Rubric: Incipit prohemium ad summas Codicis per Azonem compositas

Final rubric: Explicit summa Codicis domini Azonis

With prologue.

2. (fol. 190)

Azo, Summa Institutionum

Rubric: Incipit prohemium ad Summam Institutionum a domino Azone compositam

With prologue.

3. (fol. 210)

Azo (?), Summa Digestorum

Summa Pandectarum secundum Job

Rubric: Incipit materia ad Pandectam secundum Job

Incipit: In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti; Amen. Principium omnium rerum est Deus

4. (fol. 217)

Johannes Bassianus, Summa ad Authenticas (prologue: Materia Authentici)

Rubric: Materia ad Authenticam secundum Job

Incipit: Liber iste quem donante ⟨Deo⟩ locut⟨ur⟩i sumus dudum liber Novellarum dicebatur

5. (fol. 218)

Summa de regulis juris, etc.

Incipit: Dictum est s(upra)(?) de omni jure nostro specialiter

The final rubric is 'de officio legati'.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 219 leaves; folio

Layout

2 cols.

Decoration

Good initials in French style. Italian script and parchment. (Pächt and Alexander i. 534)

History

Origin: 13th century, third quarter ; Italian and French (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Georg Hessler (1427-1482), rector of the University of Pavia, 1454: 'Anno etc. liiij. dominus Georius Hesler pro tunc rector alme Universitatis studii Papiensis comparavit sibi presentem librum pro iiij. ducatis'.

Johannes Hessler (? Johann Hessler, 1450-1482, brother of Georg).

William Laud, 1573-1645, 1637.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian Library, 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the following sources:

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 534

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 1–2

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 38

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024: Description revised to include all information from printed catalogues.

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