A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Lat. 88

Summary Catalogue no.: 1065

Contents

Genesis, with gloss
Incipit: (gloss) Creavit celum superius, quod absque motu divinae praesentiae
Explicit: (gloss) Mortuus est tandem per observantiam decalogi
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 175 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 219 × 147 mm.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?): ‘modern’ chapter numbers added in boxes in the margin, as in MS. Laud Lat. 107.

Probably identifiable as a2 or a3 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

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), p. 284 [physical description, date, 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

Last Substantive Revision

2019-02-11: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer and Quarto catalogues.