Vitas Patrum; Germany, 11th century, second half
MS. Laud Misc. 83
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Vitas Patrum; Germany, 11th century, second half
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 83
Date
11th century, second half
Language
Latin
Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
157 folios
Hands
Late Caroline minuscule; added flex punctuation.
Decoration
Initial, fol. 1r. (Pächt and Alexander i. 42); unfinished (?) and retouched.
Coloured initials with modest decoration, probably added, 12th or 13th century.
Binding
Laudian binding.
Former chained binding.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
Perhaps at one point in a house of female religious (Palmer, p. 286).
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: probably identifiable as T5 in the library catalogue of 1502 (Palmer, p. 253: 'Vitas patrum Initium Vere mundum quis dubitet').
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
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Title
Vitae Sanctorum
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 83
Summary
Fols. 1v-82r. Verba seniorum
Fols. 82r-88v. Ps.-Jerome, Liber adhortationum sanctorum patrum (Verba seniorum)
Fols. 88v-131r. Ps.-Jerome, Liber adhortationum sanctorum patrum (Verba seniorum)
Fols 131r-137v. Ps.-Jerome, Liber adhortationum sanctorum patrum (Verba seniorum)
Fols. 138r-148r. Vita. S. Macarii
Fols. 148r-149r. Breviores sententiae de conversatione Patrum Aegyptiorum
Fols. 149r-157r. Theophili Actus, tr. Paul the Deacon of Naples
Fols. 157r-v. Odo of Cluny, Collationes extract: III.21, PL 133.605-6
Date
11th century, second half
Language
Latin
German
Physical extent
157 Leaves
Custodial history
Above title, long anecdote beg. 'Quidam rex Longobardorum', in 12th cent. hand: name of writer prefixed but ? illegible. Manuscript 2625 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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