Jerome on the Minor Prophets; Germany (?Weißenburg), 9th century, middle

Title

Jerome on the Minor Prophets; Germany (?Weißenburg), 9th century, middle

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 254

Place of origin

Germany, perhaps Weißenburg Abbey(Bischoff 2004)

Date

9th century, second third

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

182 medieval leaves

Hands

Several hands, mostly divided according to quires (Bischoff 2004)

Decoration

Rubrics.

Plain initials.

Musical notation

Interlinear neums added, fol. 105r (Bischoff 2004).

Binding

Calf over pasteboard: standard binding of the Laudian collection.

Former chained binding, chained at the head of the front board (rust marks on fols. ii, 1).

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: perhaps already there in the 9th century, on the evidence of corrections (Bischoff 2004).

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: possibly identifiable as F17 in the 1502 catalogue (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 238). Late-medieval leaf signatures as found in other Lorsch/Eberbach manuscripts (Summary Catalogue II.i.38). The manuscript was probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18).

William Laud, acquired 1638.

Title

Jerome, Commentary on the Minor Prophets (Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 254

Summary

Jerome, Commentary on the Minor Prophets (Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum). Contemporary table of contents in rustic capitals on f. 1.

Date

10th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

181 Leaves

Custodial history

From Lorsch. Manuscript 2561 acquired by the Bodleian Library