Charlemagne, Augustine — 8th century, middle; French, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery)(?)
MS. Laud Misc. 126
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Charlemagne, Augustine — 8th century, middle; French, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery)(?)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 126
Place of origin
French, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery)(?)
Date
8th century, middle
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 260 + i, foliated i, 1–261
Hands
Uncial: fols. 2r-259v: uncial and half-uncial by at least fifteen hands.
Half-uncial: fols. 2r-259v: uncial and half-uncial by at least fifteen hands.
Fols. 1r, 260r: additions in German Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
Decoration
Numerous important initials.
Rubrics, sometimes incipits and explicits, in coloured capitals.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
Ascribed to Chelles by Bischoff, to Jouarre by McKitterick.
At Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, by the second third of the ninth century: evidence of marginalia, and inscription (9th century, middle) on fol. 1v. Domstift ex libris, 13th century, fol. 1v, and shelfmark, 15th century, fol. 2r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1v.
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