Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; France, s. xiiiex
MS. Laud Misc. 68
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; France, s. xiiiex
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 68
Date
s. xiiiex
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (17th-cent.) + 515 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Hands
French textualis, by several hands.
Corrections and marginalia in contemporary up to 15th-cent. hands, the latter from the Mainz Charterhouse
Decoration
1-sided border, extending towards upper and lower margin (fol. 4r).
Fleuronnée initials.
Red rubrics by the text hands.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Bookmarks made of pasted parchment strips; these strips are written on, in a small, heavily abbreviated French textualis cursiva of s. xiii.
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
Mainz, Charterhouse St Michael: ‘Iohannes de Esschenewege’ or ‘de Loupath’, who is identified by Schreiber (144) as the Carthusian Johannes Arfelt de Eschwege, the scribe of MS. Laud Misc. 202, was meant to sell the manuscript in order to buy parchment, but held it back: see ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 1r. Identifiable as D XXI P in cat. ii.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.
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Title
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 68
Date
14th century
Language
Latin
Physical extent
515 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2771 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob
