MS. Laud Lat. 91
Summary Catalogue no.: 1115
Contents
There is no interlinear or marginal gloss after 36.4 (gloss ending '...uel religione terruit').
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled in plummet. Laid out in three columns: Biblical text in a central column (c. 57 mm), the gloss in outer (c. 51 mm.) and inner (c. 27 mm.) columns, overall ruled space c. 165 × 140 mm. Gloss frequently extending into the upper (rarely lower) margin.
Pricked and ruled for 15 lines of widely spaced Biblical text with interlinear gloss.
Marginal gloss ruled ad hoc, approximately 40 lines of gloss for 15 lines of text.
Hand(s)
Protogothic; one hand.
Decoration
Decorated inital 'Hec sunt', fol. 1r, c. 60 mm. high, with animal and foliate motifs. (Cf. Pächt and Alexander iii. 253, pl. XXIV; as English, late 12th cent.)
No other decoration; capitals at the beginning of sentences are frequently left blank, sometimes filled in by later hands in ink or crayon.
'Modern' Biblical chapter headings added (see Provenance); nota marks (e.g. fols. 35v, 66r); medieval corrections to text and punctuation; sporadic annotations in crayon (fols. 5v, 47r).
Binding
A standard binding of the Laudian collection, reversed calf, c. 1638-9; rebacked.
Evidence of an earlier binding: extensive wormholes at front and back; rust-marks from two clasps at front.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: 'modern' chapter numbers added first in 'crayon', subsequently in ink, boxed, as in other manuscripts from Eberbach (e.g. MS. Laud Lat. 107); probably identifiable as a 3 in the Eberbach catalogue of 1502 ('Exodus glosatus initium ⟨Hec sunt nomina filiorum israel⟩') (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 261, without reference to the present manuscript; as Palmer points out the incipit is given for a 2 but belongs with a 3).
William Laud: acquired 1638 (ex libris, fol. 1r) after the disperal of the Eberbach library in the Thirty Years' War.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-02: Description revised.