Gilbert de la Porrée — 12th century, second half; France, North
MS. Laud Lat. 45
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Description
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Title
Gilbert de la Porrée — 12th century, second half; France, North
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 45
Date
12th century, second half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (modern paper) + 154 + i (early modern parchment) leaves
Hands
Protogothic; one scribe.
Decoration
12-line historiated initial P, fol. 38r, on a blue ground: the apostle Paul, seated with open book; the bowl of the P formed by a dragon whose tail is the trunk of a tree; the opening text of the Epistle in decorative majuscules on the blue ground.
Large (c. 10-16 line) decorated or inhabited initials at the beginning of Biblical books (fols. 1v, 2r, ground unfinished, 73v, 88v, 99v, 109v, 114r, 119r, 122r, 124r, 131r, 134r, 137r, 138r; curtain surviving at 99v, traces of other curtains e.g. fols. 131r, 137r, 138r); smaller (5-6) line initials at corresponding sections of the gloss or minor divisions of the Biblical text (fols. 38r, 73v, 88r-v, 99v, 109r-v, 114r (inhabited), 118v, 119r, 121v, 122r, 124r, 131r, 134r, 136v).
Binding
Standard binding of the Laudian collection, c. 1638-9; rebacked; rust-marks from the furniture of an earlier binding (probably chain staple, see Provenance, and clasps), fol. 154v.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey : mark of the chain-staple of the Eberbach libraria major probably visible on fol. 154 (cf. N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bucher(1998), 182-3); 'modern' chapter numbers added in a style found in other manuscripts from Eberbach (MSS. Laud Lat. 14, Laud Misc. 102, Laud Misc. 244, etc.); probably identifiable as D 9 in the Eberbach catalogue of 1502 ('Paulus glosatus initium Sicut prophete post legem sic et') (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 235, without reference to the present manuscript).
William Laud: acquired 1637 (ex libris, fol. 1r) after the disperal of the Eberbach library in the Thirty Years' War
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Title
Pauline Epistles, with gloss of Gilbert de la Porrée
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 45
Date
12th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Physical extent
154 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2547 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Pauline Epistles, with gloss of Gilbert de la Porrée
