MS. Laud Lat. 68
Summary Catalogue no.: 1116
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
, Ars minor Colophon: Explicit Donatus Minor scriptus per me Johannem de Bunna, de quo Deo Laus; Amen
2. (fol. 8)
, Doctrinale magnum Colophon: Explicit textus Doctrinalis magistri Alexandri de Villa Dei scriptus per me Johannem de Bunna studentem, de quo Deo laus et Amen
3. (fol. 54v)
, Flores grammaticae Incipit: Flores grammatice propono scribere Christe
Explicit: Veros et sit nos patet ire tollere fructus
Final rubric: Expliciunt flores grammaticae; Deo laus; Amen
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 71 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 163 × 125 mm.
Hand(s)
Written by Johannes de Bunna.
Decoration
Initials in blue and red, sometimes decorated. (Pächt and Alexander i. 150)
Binding
Laudian binding.
Former chained binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ex libris, erased, 15th century.
Identifiable as T2 in the 1502 Eberbach library catalogue.
‘F. Jacobus Krayn(?)’, 16th century, second half (?)
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Description adapted (2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 150, 284 [contents, physical description, date, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 150 [decoration, origin, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-02-08: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.