Augustine; Würzburg, Domstift, s. ix2/3 (Gozbald)
MS. Laud Misc. 122
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Augustine; Würzburg, Domstift, s. ix2/3 (Gozbald)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 122
Date
9th century, second third
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (17th cent.) + 110 + i (17th cent.) leaves The margins trimmed (affecting a few marginalia and (presumably) one quire signature).
Hands
Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/3, presumably by a single hand, belonging to the Gozbald group.
Decoration
(fol. 1r) Five-line initial in the ink of the text, outlined on both sides with a thin decorative lobed line, each lobe dotted (cf. Pächt & Alexander (1. 21): s. ix2); a colour stain (bright red) on the inside; otherwise simple one- or two-line scribal initials to (if used) prologues, and major textual units.
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
Written in Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix2/3, based on the script.
15th-century shelfmark of the Domstift, fol. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1638, fol. 1r.
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Title
Augustine
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 122
Summary
Fols. 1r–18r. Augustine, De bono coniugali
Fols. 18r–43r. Augustine, De sancta uirginitate
Fols. 43r–58v. Augustine, De bono uiduitatis
Fols. 58v–69r. Augustine, Epistola ad Probam de orando Deo (ep. 130)
Fols. 69r–83v. Augustine, De agone christiano
Fols.83v–109v. Augustine, De opere monachorum
Fol. 110r–v, original lower pastedown. blank, except for two pen trials
Date
9th century, second third
Language
Latin
Physical extent
109 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2806 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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