Exodus, with glossa ordinaria — 12th century (middle or second half); Germany (?)

Title

Exodus, with glossa ordinaria — 12th century (middle or second half); Germany (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 91

Place of origin

Germany (?)

Date

12th century (middle or second half)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 118 + ileaves (endleaves parchment of the date of the binding)

Hands

Protogothic; one hand.

Decoration

Decorated inital 'Hec sunt', fol. 1r, c. 60 mm. high, with animal and foliate motifs. (Cf. Pächt and Alexander iii. 253, pl. XXIV; as English, late 12th cent.)

No other decoration; capitals at the beginning of sentences are frequently left blank, sometimes filled in by later hands in ink or crayon.

Binding

A standard binding of the Laudian collection, reversed calf, c. 1638-9; rebacked.

Evidence of an earlier binding: extensive wormholes at front and back; rust-marks from two clasps at front.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey : 'modern' chapter numbers added first in 'crayon', subsequently in ink, boxed, as in other manuscripts from Eberbach (e.g. MS. Laud Lat. 107); probably identifiable as a 3 in the Eberbach catalogue of 1502 ('Exodus glosatus initium Hec sunt nomina filiorum israel') (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 261, without reference to the present manuscript; as Palmer points out the incipit is given for a 2 but belongs with a 3).

William Laud: acquired 1638 (ex libris, fol. 1r) after the disperal of the Eberbach library in the Thirty Years' War.

Title

Exodus, with gloss

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 91

Date

12th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

118 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2631 acquired by the Bodleian Library