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MS. Laud Lat. 21

Summary Catalogue no.: 1069

Contents

Minor Prophets with glossa ordinaria

Fol. 1r blank.

(fols. 1v–2r)
Prologue
Incipit: (text) Non idem ordo est duodecim prophetarum
Explicit: titulos prophetauerunt
Stegmüller, Bibl. 500
Incipit: (gloss) Materia Osee triplex est. Loquitur enim secundum historiam
Incipit: (gloss) Ordo prophetarum secundum LXX talis est
(fols. 2r–28v)
Hosea
(fols. 2r–4r)
Prol.
Incipit: Temporibus Ozei et Ioathe
Explicit: purificasse monstratur
Stegmüller, Bibl. 507

Written in the main text column, no gloss. Rest of fol. 4r blank.

(fols. 4v–28v)
Hosea
Incipit: (gloss(interlinear)) Hoc est et est quasi titulus libri
Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Hier. Ozias qui et Azarias regnauit in Ierusalem
(fols. 29r–39r)
Joel

Prologues (Stegmüller, Bibl. 511, 510) given as the first items of the gloss, occupying the upper part of fol. 29r in two columns.

Incipit: (gloss(interlinear)) domini patris factum non quantum ad se
Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Jer. Fatuel propheta pater Ioel propheta a LXX
(fols. 39r–59r)
Amos

Prologues (Stegmüller, Bibl. 515, 512, 513) given as the first items of the gloss.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Amos non ad Ierusalem sed ad Israel in Samaria prophetat
(fols. 59v–62v)
Abdias

Prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 519) given as the first item of the gloss, occupying two columns of the top area of the fol. 59v.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Abdias quanto breuior tanto est profundior
(fols. 63r–69r)
Jonas

Prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 524) given as the first item of the gloss, occupying both columns of the top area of fol. 63r.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) ⟨I⟩ona columba et dolens filius
(fols. 69v–83v)
Micah

Prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 524) given as the first item of the gloss, occupying both columns of the top area of fol. 69v.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Micheas secundum Hebraicam ueritatem sextus est
(fols. 83v–89v)
Nahum

Prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 528) presented as the first item of the gloss, occupying both columns of the lower area of fol. 83v.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Cum Ionas at Naum de eadem
(fols. 90r–97v)
Habakkuk

Prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 531) presented as the first item of the gloss, occupying both columns of fol. 90r and the first line lines of the outer column of fol. 90v.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Conmentatur Ieronimus super Oseę, Ioel, et Amos
(fols. 97v–104v)
Zephaniah

The first part of the prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 534, ending at 'non est exaltatum cor meum') presented as the first item of the gloss, occupying both columns of the lower area of fol. 97v, followed by 'Explicit prologus ...'; the second part of the prologue occupying a single column of gloss in the upper part of fol. 98r.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) In titulo generatio prophete et tempus notatur

Fol. 105r blank.

(fols. 105v–110v)
Haggai

Fol. 105v contains the prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 538) presented in two columns.

The main text breaking off at 'Et ponam'; the final words (from 'te quasi signaculum...') supplied in the outer gloss column of fol. 110v.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Cum Cyrus rex Persarum occiso Balthasar
(fols. 111r–137v)
Zechariah

Prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 539) presented as the first item of the gloss, occupying the upper part of fol. 111r in two columns.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Cyrus rex Persarum qui Chaldeorum
(fols. 137v–144v)
Malachi

Prologue (Stegmüller, Bibl. 543) presented as the first item of the gloss, occupying the upper part of fol. 137v in two columns.

Incipit: (gloss(marginal)) Malachi interpretatur angelus meus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 145 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 175 mm.
Foliation: 1–145 in 19th-century pencil.

Collation

1(8)–13(8), 14(8+1) (fol. 105 added at the beginning of the quire) (fols. 1–104, 105–113) | 15(8)–18(8) (fols. 114–144). Quires numbered in Roman on the bottom centre of the final verso. Later medieval leaf signatures in the upper margin.

Condition

Damaged and stained by water, with the text faded and difficult to read in places.

Layout

Ruled in plummet. The main text in one central column of 15 widely spaced lines, with double horizontal bounding lines, ruled space 150 × 47 mm.

Separate ruling for up to 38 lines of gloss, typically in the outer and inner columns but often extending into the upper and lower margins to form a 'textus inclusus' with two columns at the top and bottom of the page; prologues often written in this two-column format. Width of the inner column c. 30 mm., of the outer column c. 55 mm., the overall width of the written area c. 140–5 mm.

Gloss and text both written above top line.

Hand(s)

Protogothic book and gloss script. The main text perhaps in two hands, changing at fol. 127v. Marginal and interlinear gloss mostly by one other hand, but with marginal gloss by two other hands in quire 15 (fols. 114–121) and quire 16 (fols. 122–129)

Decoration

Spaces left for initials, not filled in.

Binding

Laudian binding of calf over pasteboards, stamped with Laud's arms in gilt.

History

Origin: 12th century (middle?) ; northern France (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (?). Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 236, 284, asserted a Lorsch provenance, citing Bischoff, who was more cautious (Die Abtei Lorsch... (1989), pp. 110–1); there is no evidence except what can be inferred from the history of the manuscript at Eberbach, for which see below.

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: no ex libris, but probably identifiable as D2 (part 1) in the catalogue of 1502: Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher, p. 234; part 2 of catalogue D2 was MS. Laud Lat. 104, also probably from Lorsch. The added late medieval leaf signatures, as pointed out by Nicholson (Summary Catalogue II.i.46) appear to be by the same hand as those in MS. Laud Misc. 417 and MS. Laud Misc. 452 pt. 2; both manuscripts came to Eberbach from Lorsch. Characteristic Eberbach annotations (Quarto Catalogue, p. xxv).

William Laud, 1573–1645, acquired 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, given in 1639. Former Bodleian shelfmark F. 32.

Record Sources

Description by Matthew Holford, July 2021. Previously described in 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. 14
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 46

Digital Images

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Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital(full facsimile, with manucript description by Michael Kautz, 2014)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-07-20: Description fully revised for digitization.