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.
Jerome's prologue, fol. 51r; followed (fol. 67v) by capitula of Wisdom.
Preceded by (fol. 68ra) part of an anonymous commentary (Stegmüller, Bibl. 9539) and (fol. 68rb) prothemata.
Prologue, fol. 88vc. Prologue to Ecclesiasticus (item 2), fol. 114va, forms the last paragraph of the gloss.
Physical Description
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
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
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Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-10-22: Fuller summary of Mairhofer's catalogue created for Polonsky German manuscripts project.