(Ps.-)Augustine, opera varia. Northern France, s. xiv1

Title

(Ps.-)Augustine, opera varia. Northern France, s. xiv1

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 142

Date

s. xiii2

s. xivin

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (17th-cent.) + 87 leaves

Hands

Northern French textualis formata (textus rotundus) by a single hand.

Corrections and annotations in the text hand, in contemporary and late 14th- to 15th-cent. hands, some of which may be Carthusian, from Mainz.

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials.

Red rubrics, occasionally red underlining.

Binding

Reversed tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

Acquisition

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Provenance

The original volume was much larger: several quires (presumably 12 sexternios) between fols 24 & 25 (quires ii & iii) were lost along the way, some time after the book was produced (see the contemporary foliation) and before the late 14th-cent. list of contents (edited below) was inserted. Furthermore, the sequence of items in the table of contents suggests that four items are missing at the end; item 8, however, ends at fol. 86ra, l. 14, the rest of the recto and verso being blank and the lines unruled; there is no catchword at the end of the last quire. The items missing at the end might therefore have formed part of a different, now untraced, fascicle, which had become detached at some point.

Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: Late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r; Table of contents in the lower margin of fol. 1r, in a hand of s. xivex from the Mainz Charterhouse. Identifiable as C II P in cat. ii.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1r.

Title

Augustine; Ps.-Augustine, works

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 142

Date

14th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical facet

Bound in reversed calf

Physical extent

86 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2578 acquired by the Bodleian Library