Gregory the Great; South-West Germany/Würzburg?, s. ix1/4
MS. Laud Misc. 275
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Gregory the Great; South-West Germany/Würzburg?, s. ix1/4
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 275
Date
9th century, first quarter
Language
Latin
Old High German (ca. 750-1050)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (17th-cent. paper) + i (17th-cent. parchment) + 118 + i (17th-cent. paper) leaves The margins trimmed (affecting often prickings and partly quire signatures; sometimes also (minimally) marginalia). The original quire viii now missing, with loss of text.
Hands
German Insular minuscule, s. ix1/4, by several hands.
Decoration
Fine initial in early Carolingian style on fol. 1r. Good initials of pre-Carolingian tradition. (Pächt and Alexander i. 3, pl. 1). The pericope of the first homily in gold uncial; at the beginning of a pericope and homily), a scribal initial in pre-Carolingian style, often with interlace.
Marginal drypoint sketches on fols. 3v and 4r, 6v and 114v.
Red rubrics.
Binding
Brown 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
Features point to a South-west German centre with Insular traditions, likely Würzburg, s. ix1/4; certainly since the 9th century in Würzburg (corrections and glosses).
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: the 12th-cent. ex-libris inscription, f. 118v; a 15th-century shelfmark of the Domstift, f. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1r.
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Title
Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in euangelia and Glosses
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 275
Date
9th century, first quarter
Language
Latin
Physical extent
118 Leaves
Custodial history
Old shelfmark vij. Manuscript 2709 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in euangelia and Glosses
