Geoffrey of Viterbo, Pantheon; Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium; John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer. Germany (Eberbach, Cistercian abbey), 1454.

Title

Geoffrey of Viterbo, Pantheon; Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium; John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer. Germany (Eberbach, Cistercian abbey), 1454.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 721

Date

1454

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment (several irregular edges)

Physical extent

iii (17th-cent.) + 394 + iii (17th-cent.) leaves

Hands

Two main hands: (i) Hybrida, fols. 1r-60v; (ii) Cursive, fols. 61r-393v; 1454. Colophon dated 1454 by monk Johannes de Oistrich (f. 336v) stating item 1 was copied at Eberbach Cistercian abbey for Abbot Tillmann von Johannisberg (r. 1442-1456).

Decoration

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639. Rust-mark from the staple of a former chained binding, fol. 393.

Acquisition

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Provenance

Eberbach, Cistercian Abbey of the Virgin Mary: Colophon dated 1454 by monk Johannes de Oistrich (f. 336v) stating item 1 was copied at Eberbach for Abbot Tillmann von Johannisberg (r. 1442-1456); part of the abbot's library, early 16th-century ex-libris inscription at the lower margin of f. 1r: ‘Liber Virginis gloriose. In Ebirbach. Hic est Marie. Ad Vsus. Abbatis Ebirbacensis’. Probably not identifiable in the catalogue of 1502 (Palmer, Zistenzienser, 272, 297).

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. iii-v.

Title

Godefridus Viterbiensis, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 721

Summary

Geoffrey of Viterbo, Pantheon

Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium (extract)

John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer (Latin tr.)

Date

15th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

393 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2732 acquired by the Bodleian Library