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MS. Laud Lat. 29*

Summary Catalogue no.: 1221

Former shelfmark: MS. Laud Lat. 29, fol. 171

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. 157–158. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fol. 171r–v)
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations

Fragment containing iv.114–20. Formerly the end flyleaf of MS. Laud Lat. 29, fol. 171.

Ed. A. C. Clark (1910), siglum ‘O’; ed. M. Pohlenz, Teubner (1965), siglum ‘F’. The present fragment preserves an unusally accurate text.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 leaf
Dimensions (leaf): c.240–41 × 186–89 mm.
Foliation: None.

Layout

Ruling in hard point, the recto shows indirect impression; three columns of 28 lines each. Left- and right-hand margins unevenly trimmed, with text loss. Ruled space: the middle column measures 51 mm, the intercolumnar spaces 20–21 mm.

Hand(s)

Carolingian minuscule, single hand.

Decoration

None.

History

Origin: s. ix2/3 ; Italian, North

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885.
Quarto Catalogue, col. 16
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 39

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2018), pp. 157–158

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-01-03: Description revised for Mainz digitization project to include additional information from Mairhofer catalogue.