Composite: A Goswinus de Bossuto, Vita Arnulfi conversi; Germany, 13th century, second quarter. B Echardus Magister, Opus Tripartitum (parts); Germany, 14th century. C Serapion the Elder, Practica; France (?), 13th century, second half

Title

Composite: A Goswinus de Bossuto, Vita Arnulfi conversi; Germany, 13th century, second quarter. B Echardus Magister, Opus Tripartitum (parts); Germany, 14th century. C Serapion the Elder, Practica; France (?), 13th century, second half

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 222

Place of origin

France (?)

Germany

Germany, Eberbach OCist (?)

Date

13th century, second quarter (after 1228)

14th century

13th century, second half (last quarter (?))

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Physical extent

i (paper) + 235 (28 + 75 + 132) + i (parchment)

Binding

Laudian binding. Sewn on five bands and bound in plain brown leather over pasteboards, each cover framed by a double blind fillet and with the gilt arms of Archbishop Laud in the centre; with traces of ties. The head of the spine with a paper label inscribed ‘Glossa super Genesin | &c. | M. S.’, above two printed paper Bodleian labels, ‘Laud. | E 3[4].’ and ‘Laud | 222’. The upper edges of the leaves are inscribed with a medieval(?) title (?) or ex libris (?).

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

The whole volume together by at least 1502, when identifiable as h9 in the catalogue of the Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 274).

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.

Title

Theologica et medica

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 222

Summary

Vita Arnulfi, 13th century, beginning

Patristic extracts, 14th century

Serapion the Elder, Practica, 13th century, end

Date

Written in Germany, 13th and 14th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

235 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2532 acquired by the Bodleian Library