Chrysostom, Anselm, Alcuin, Boethius, and saints lives; Germany (Eberbach), c. 1200/1210
MS. Laud Misc. 457
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Description
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Title
Chrysostom, Anselm, Alcuin, Boethius, and saints lives; Germany (Eberbach), c. 1200/1210
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 457
Date
c. 1200/1210
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
184 leaves
Hands
Cistercian (flex) punctuation.
Decoration
Arabesque or silhouette initials in red, green, and red-and-green.
Fol. 22r, decorated initial with foliate and animal motifs.
Space for initial unfilled, fol. 150r.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
Attributed by Palmer (p. 109) to the Eberbach scriptorium.
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: characteristic marginal annotations.
Fols. 115v-129r: Identifiable as 'Erb. Mi. 143' in the "Rheinischen Gesamtkatalog" from the 1470s (now Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, cod. F VI 53, pp. 1–28, on p. 4).
Identifiable as d 5 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
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Title
Chrysostom, Anselm, Alcuin, Boethius, and saints lives
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 457
Summary
1. Fol. 1r. Calendrical verses
2. Fols. 1v-80r. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews
3. Fols. 80r-99r. Anselm, Cur Deus homo
4. Fols. 99r-104r. Wandalbertus (c. 813-870), Life of St Goar
5. Fols. 104r-110r. Wandalbertus (c. 813-870), Miracles of St Goar
6. Fols. 110v-113r. Life of St Giles
7. Fols. 113r-115r. Passio S. Iacobi apostolis fratris S. Iohannis evangeliste
8. Fols. 115r-129r. Ps.-Salonius, Interrogationes et responsiones in Proverbiis
9. Fols. 129r-143r. Alcuin, Quaestiones in Genesim
10. Fols. 143r-145v. Alcuin, De benedictionibus patriarcharum
11. Fols. 145v-163r. Boethius, Opuscula sacra, with marginal and interlinear gloss attributed to Remigius of Auxerre:
Boethius, Opuscula sacra I-V (De trinitate)
Remigius of Auxerre (?), Commentarium in Boethii Opuscula sacra
Gloss preceded by text on the names in the title
12. Fols. 163r-166v. Life of St Pelagia (BHL 6606) Incipit conversio Sanctae Pelagiae
13. Fols. 166v-182v. Life, translation and miracles of St Servatius:
Fols. 166v. Rubric: Incipit vita sancti Servacii episcopi et confessoris
Fols. 166v-172r. Incipit: Erant in diebus illis Iudeorum in partibus
Fols. 172r-175r. Incipit: Post huius obitum Huni, subversis multis Gallie urbibus
Fols. 175r. Incipit: Ad excolendam autem dominicam vineam
Fols. 175r-182v. Rubric: De translatione sancti Servatii
14. Fols. 183r-184v. Life of St Lubentius
Date
c. 1200/1210
Language
Latin
Physical extent
184 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2654 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Chrysostom, Anselm, Alcuin, Boethius, and saints lives
