Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 3); Würzburg, Domstift, s. ix2/3 (Gozbald).
MS. Laud Misc. 124
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Description
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Title
Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 3); Würzburg, Domstift, s. ix2/3 (Gozbald).
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 124
Date
9th century, second third (before 855)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (modern paper) + i (17th-cent. paper) + 122 + i (17th cent.) + i (modern paper)
Hands
Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/3, by several hands belonging to the first Gozbald group.
Decoration
Sketches of uncertain date (Pächt and Alexander i. 16), comprising of (fol. 44r) a human face in profile; (fol. 96v) the head of a beast; (fol. 122v) sketches of a portrait of a man; four compass-drawn circles; an upside down Agnus Dei; simple two- to six-line initials, occasionally decorated.
Musical notation
Neums, fol. 122v.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
Written in Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix2/3, commissioned/donated to the Domstift by Bp. Gozbald (842–855); contemporary inscription, f. iii verso; 10th-century inscription, f. 122v.
Tenth-century Domstift inscription, fol. 122v.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1r.
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Title
Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 3)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 124
Summary
Fols. 1r–122r. Augustine, Tractatus in euangelium Iohannis, 55-124
Fol. 122r–v. Notes and pen trials, probably s. x., including list of herbs/plants (recipe?), neums (a mixture of French and St Gall types), dedication verses, and pen trials
Fol. 123r–v, 17th-cent. endleaf. blank
Fol. 124r–v, modern endleaf. blank
Date
9th century, second third (before 855)
Language
Latin
Physical extent
122 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2805 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis (part 3)
