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MS. Laud Lat. 41

Summary Catalogue no.: 870

Matthew, glossed; France, c. 1200

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. 180–6. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

Gospel of St Matthew, with gloss

(fol. 1ra-1vb)

Three prologues to Matthew and the four Gospels; added, early thirteenth century.

(fol. 2ra-rb)

Letter from the cathedral chapter of Würzburg to the cathedral chapter at Mainz; added, early thirteenth century.

(fols. 3rb-4ra)

Prologue to Matthew, with Glossa ordinaria.

(fols. 3r-160v)

Gospel of Matthew, with Glossa ordinaria, supplemented by additional gloss.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (paper) + i (parchment) + 160 + i (parchment) + i (paper), foliated i-ii, 1–162

Dimensions (leaf): c. 287–94 × 207–12 mm.

Layout

Ruled in lead point.

Fols. 1ra-1vb: 2 cols. of 43–45 lines, ruled space c. 227/30 × 148–65 mm.

Fols. 3r-160va: 2–3 shifting cols., 34–35 lines, ruled space c. 193–9 × 135–46 mm.

Hand(s)

Protogothic by several hands.

Decoration

‘Pontigny’ style initials, cf. Pächt and Alexander i. 501, pl. XXXIX.

Blue or red initials with foliate decoration in the opposite colour.

Running heads in red and blue.

Binding

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

History

Origin: c. 1200 ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: 13th-century ex libris, fol. 3r.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 3r.

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. 20

Quarto Catalogue, p. 538 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 37