Letters and sermons of Augustine and other patristic writers; Lorsch Abbey, 9th century

Title

Letters and sermons of Augustine and other patristic writers; Lorsch Abbey, 9th century

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 133

Date

9th century, first half

added decoration, 12th century, first half

891–893

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (early modern parchment) + 157 + i (early modern parchment) + i (early modern paper) leaves

Binding

Standard Laudian binding; brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard. Cloth ties excised.

Acquisition

Donated to the Bodleian Library as part of Laud’s third donation, 28 June 1639. Previous shelfmarks, L.25 (on fol. ii verso) and C.97 Laud. (upper flyleaf).

Provenance

Cistercian Abbey of the Virgin Mary, Eberbach. Although all three parts of the manuscript were written at Lorsch, the evidence of catalogues suggests that they were bound together at Eberbach. The 1470s Rheinischen Gesamtkatalog lists the book under the signature Erb’ Ma. O 2 (Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher, p. 228). Inscription, Liber sancte Marie virginis in Ebirbach, 15th century (cf. MS. Laud. Misc. 107, fol. 1v). Listed in the Eberbach catalog of 1502 under the signature G 15: G 15 Quedam epistoli beati augustini Item epistoli eiusdem super psalmos Initium Domino sancto iuremerito ac venerabili (Palmer, p. 239).

Willam Laud (1573–1645) acquired many German manuscripts plundered during the Thirty Years’ War. Inscribed, Liber Guil.mi Laude archiepi. Cant. et Cancellarii vniuersit. Oxon. 1636 (fol. 1r).

Title

Augustine, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 133

Summary

Part 1, 9th century, first half; added decoration, 12th century, first half:

Augustine, Letters (epp. 156, 157, 186, 170, 194, 214)

Augustine, Contra duas epistulas Pelagianorum (bk. i)

Augustine, De gratio et libero arbitrio

Augustine, De correptione et gratia

Evodius Uzalitanus, Letter

Celestine I, Letter (ep. 21)

Ps.-Augustine, Commonitorium quomodo sit agendum cum manichaeis

Part 2, 9th century, first half: Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos (Ps. xci-c)

Part 3, 891-893: Augustine, Sermo de pastoribus and Letters (epp. 18, 20, 19, 1)

Date

9th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

157 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2796 acquired by the Bodleian Library