Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 2); Germany (Niederaltaich and Würzburg), c. 825–850
MS. Laud Misc. 139
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Description
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Title
Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 2); Germany (Niederaltaich and Würzburg), c. 825–850
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 139
Date
c. 825–50
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 234 + ii leaves
Hands
Carolingian minuscule, written by several hands; the script of Egino identifiable on fols. 7v/5ff, 22r.
Decoration
Diagram (Sphaera Pythagorae, unfinished). (Pächt and Alexander i. 17)
Initials in the ink of the text; one red initial, fol. 138v.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639; rebacked.
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
The nucleus probably written in Niederalteich (script of fols. 3v/1–7, 40v/1–24, etc., associated with the Gozbald school), the supplement at Würzburg, by hands associated with both Niederalteich and Würzburg. Part of a three-volume set, vol. 1 = Würzburg UB M.p.th.f.74, vol. 3 = MS. Laud Misc 124.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: 12th-century ex-libris inscription, fol. 1r; 15th-century shelfmark of the Domstift, fols. 1r and 2r, upper right-hand margin; perhaps identifiable in the booklist of the Domstift St Kilian from c. 1000 ('Iohannem Augustini').
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. ii verso.
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Title
Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 2)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 139
Date
c. 825-850
Language
Latin
Physical extent
234 Leaves
Custodial history
Written for the abbey of St. Laumer at Blois by its librarian Harduin of Vendôme. With old shelfmark xix of St. Kylian's, Würzburg. Manuscript 2810 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 2)
