Bede, Commentary on Acts. Germany, s. xi.
MS. Laud Misc. 312
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bede, Commentary on Acts. Germany, s. xi.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 312
Date
11th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment; with (fol. 26) traces of medieval repair (stitching holes) and (fol. 2) A slit-and-tab marker.
Physical extent
i (17th cent.) + 69 + i (17th cent.) leaves
Hands
German protogothic script, s. xi, above top line, in several hands. (Item 1) German textualis, s. xiii, in two hands. (Item 3) German textualis, s. xiii, in a single hand. Marginalia in the text hands and in contemporary up to 15th-cent. hands.
Decoration
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the lower margin of fol. 3r, in tiny script: ‘codex carthusiensium moguncie’, and, in a different hand, at the head of fol. 69r: ‘Cartusiensium est prope mogunciam’ (boxed in).
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1v.
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Title
Bede, Commentary on Acts (partly conflated with his Retractions, as in MS. Laud Misc. 268)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 312
Date
11th century, end - 12th century, beginning, German writing
Language
Latin
Physical extent
69 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2458 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Bede, Commentary on Acts (partly conflated with his Retractions, as in MS. Laud Misc. 268)
