Origen, Homiles on Joshua. Germany (Lorsch), 9th century, first half
MS. Laud Misc. 97
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Description
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Title
Origen, Homiles on Joshua. Germany (Lorsch), 9th century, first half
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 97
Date
9th century, first half or second quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 75 + i folios
Hands
Caroline minuscule by several hands, attributed by Bischoff to the Lorsch 'jüngerer Stil'.
Rubrics in rustic capitals, quires 1-8.
Rubrics in uncial (fol. 59r and quires 9-10); opening words of fol. 2r in uncial.
Decoration
4-line plain red initial D, fol. 2r; other initials in the ink of the text.
Binding
Laudian binding of calf over pasteboard, sewn on four supports; rebacked.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former shelfmark G. 48.
Provenance
Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the library catalogues (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 229 (p. 271)).
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey, probably identifiable as the first part of F 15 in the catalogue of 1502 ('Omelie Iheronimi super ihesu naue Item liber scintillarum de charitate Initium In diuinis voluminibus refertur': N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 237; the second part is identified by Palmer as MS. Laud Misc. 631); probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18).
William Laud, 1638.
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Title
Origen, Homilies on Joshua (tr. Rufinus)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 97
Date
10th century, end
Language
Latin
Physical extent
72 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2682 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Origen, Homilies on Joshua (tr. Rufinus)
