Chronicles and Annals, etc.; Germany, probably written in 1182
MS. Laud Misc. 633
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Chronicles and Annals, etc.; Germany, probably written in 1182
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 633
Date
12th century, probably 1182
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii (paper) + iii (parchment) + 134 (107 + 27 inserted cedulae) + i (parchment) + ii (paper) leaves
Hands
Written in early Gothic script.
Decoration
Some pen-drawn initials in red ink.
Binding
Laudian binding. Laminate boards formed partly of uncut sheets of a printed edition of the Bible, covered with brown calf stamped in gilt in the centre of each cover with the arms of archbishop Laud. Vestiges of two ties.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: ‘G. 85.’, ‘G. 7. 3. Laud’ (front pastedown).
Provenance
The Premonstratensian abbey of Sts John the Baptist and Servatius, Pöhlde (south of Hanover, in Lower Saxony): additions by various hands to the tables on fols. 21r–25v include, for 1223, ‘hoc anno polidensis ecclesia exusta est …’, and for 1240, ‘Hoc tempore dedicata est nostra ecclesia’; with their erased ownership inscription ‘Liber sancti Iohannis et Servasii in Polithe’ (fol. 1r, lower margin) according to the revised edition of the Laud catalogue (1969, p. 575).
16th(?)-century annotations in an unidentified German (?) hand (fols. 19v, 20r, etc.)
William Laud, 1573–1645 (1638, over the erased medieval inscription from Pöhlde (fol. 1r, lower margin))
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Title
Chronicon Polidense, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 633
Summary
Chronicle of world history to 1182
Biblical texts (New Testament apocrypha)
Fulcher of Chartres , Historia Hierosolymitana (extract)
Date
12th century, end (c. 1182)
Language
Latin
Physical extent
110 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2704 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Chronicon Polidense, etc.
