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MS. Laud Lat. 3

Summary Catalogue no.: 641

Justinian, Codex; Italy, late 13th century

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. 137–43. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols. 1ra–249va)

Justinian, Codex

With preliminary constitutions (fols. 1ra-4rb); two layers of gloss, the first that of Simon Vicentinus, the second of Accursius; with many additions.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (modern paper) + i (17th century parchment) + i (inserted paper document, see Accompanying material) + 249 + i (modern paper), foliated i-iii, 1–250.

Dimensions (leaf): c. 403–15 × 240–54 mm.

Layout

Ruled in lead point, 2–4 columns, 46–50 lines (mostly 47); ruled space of the main text c. 203–13 × 118–34 mm.

Hand(s)

Main text in textualis, three main hands.

Decoration

Fine fleuronnée initials.

Rubrics.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbishop Laud, 1637–1639.

Accompanying Material

The current fol. iii (attached to fol. ii recto) is a paper document of 1479 issued by the officialis of the prince-bishop of Würzburg; found loose in the volume in 1920.

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; Italian ; fols. 1–2 added 14th century, first half; France, South

Provenance and Acquisition

The current fol. iii (see Accompanying material) presumably belongs with the book, suggesting that it was at Würzburg by the fifteenth century.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 2v.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

See above. 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. 2

Quarto Catalogue, p. 537 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 28