Jacobus de Voragine; 1294, Germany (Alzey)
MS. Laud Misc. 415
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Jacobus de Voragine; 1294, Germany (Alzey)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 415
Date
1294
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
182 leaves
Hands
Written by Jutta, a nun at the Cistercian nunnery of the Holy Spirit in Alzey, by the request of Henry, a secular priest of Schimsheim (near Armsheim), Germany (fol. 181v).
Decoration
Initials with penwork flourishing.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
Alzey (dissolved 1564) was a daughter house of Eberbach; the manuscript presumably came from the nunnery to Eberbach at some unknown point. There is no Eberbach inscription and the volume cannot be identified in the Eberbach catalogue.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
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Title
Jacobus de Voragine
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 415
Summary
Fols. 1r-v. Passion of the ten thousand martyrs
Fols. 2r-3r, 3v blank. Passion of St Barbara
Fols. 4r-181v. Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Fols. 182r-v. Life of St Servatius
Date
Written in Germany, 1294
Language
Latin
Physical extent
182 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2473 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Jacobus de Voragine
