Minor Prophets with glossa ordinaria, Prologue, Hosea, Prol., Joel, Amos, Abdias, Jonas, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi — 12th century (middle?); northern France (?)
MS. Laud Lat. 21
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Minor Prophets with glossa ordinaria, Prologue, Hosea, Prol., Joel, Amos, Abdias, Jonas, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi — 12th century (middle?); northern France (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 21
Place of origin
northern France (?)
Date
12th century (middle?)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
145 leaves
Hands
Protogothic book and gloss script. The main text perhaps in two hands, changing at fol. 127v. Marginal and interlinear gloss mostly by one other hand, but with marginal gloss by two other hands in quire 15 (fols. 114–121) and quire 16 (fols. 122–129)
Decoration
Spaces left for initials, not filled in.
Binding
Laudian binding of calf over pasteboards, stamped with Laud's arms in gilt.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, given in 1639. Former Bodleian shelfmark F. 32.
Provenance
Lorsch, Benedictine abbey (?). Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), pp. 236, 284, asserted a Lorsch provenance, citing Bischoff, who was more cautious (Die Abtei Lorsch... (1989), pp. 110–1); there is no evidence except what can be inferred from the history of the manuscript at Eberbach, for which see below.
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: no ex libris, but probably identifiable as D2 (part 1) in the catalogue of 1502: Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher, p. 234; part 2 of catalogue D2 was MS. Laud Lat. 104, also probably from Lorsch. The added late medieval leaf signatures, as pointed out by Nicholson (Summary Catalogue II.i.46) appear to be by the same hand as those in MS. Laud Misc. 417 and MS. Laud Misc. 452 pt. 2; both manuscripts came to Eberbach from Lorsch. Characteristic Eberbach annotations (Quarto Catalogue, p. xxv).
William Laud, 1573–1645, acquired 1638.
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Title
Minor Prophets, with gloss
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 21
Date
12th century
Language
Latin
Physical extent
144 Leaves
Custodial history
Has re-signatures at tops of leaves in same hand as in the Lorsch MSS. Stated to have belonged to St. Nazarius at Lorsch. Manuscript 2597 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Minor Prophets, with gloss
