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

MS. Laud Lat. 98

Summary Catalogue no.: 1373

Wisdom books, glossed; France, s. xiii med

Contents

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. 239–46. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

1a. (fols. 1r-51r)
Proverbs, with gloss

Jerome's prologue, fol. 1r.

1b. (fols. 51r-67v)
Ecclesiastes, with gloss

Jerome's prologue, fol. 51r; followed (fol. 67v) by capitula of Wisdom.

1c. (fols. 68r-88v)
Song of Songs, with gloss

Preceded by (fol. 68ra) part of an anonymous commentary (Stegmüller, Bibl. 9539) and (fol. 68rb) prothemata.

1d. (fols. 88v-114v)
Wisdom, with gloss

Prologue, fol. 88vc. Prologue to Ecclesiasticus (item 2), fol. 114va, forms the last paragraph of the gloss.

2. fols. 115r-194v)
Ecclesiasticus, with gloss

Imperfect, ends at 48.18.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (paper) + i (parchment) + 194 + i (parchment) + i (paper), foliated i-ii, 1–196
Dimensions (leaf): c. 328–33 × 225–33 mm.

Layout

Ruled in lead point.

Fols. 1–114 (hand 1): 1–3, mostly 3, shifting columns of 38 or 39 lines, ruled space c. 198–203 × 153–155 mm.

Fols. 115–194 (hand 2): 2–3 shifting columns of 39 or 40 lines, ruled space c. 198–207 × 153–155 mm.

Hand(s)

Two hands. Fols. 1r-114v, hand 1, textualis.

Fols. 115r-194v, hand 2, late protogothic verging on textualis.

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials.

Running titles in alternating red and blue capitals.

Paraphs in the gloss.

Binding

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

History

Origin: French ; 13th century, middle

Provenance and Acquisition

Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: evidence of 13th-century annotations (cf. MS. Laud lat. 6).

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1r.

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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-22: Fuller summary of Mairhofer's catalogue created for Polonsky German manuscripts project.