Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus s. Augustini (selection). Germany, Mainz (?), s. ix3/4.

Title

Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus s. Augustini (selection). Germany, Mainz (?), s. ix3/4.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 584

Date

9th century, third quarter.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; (quires i, vii–x, xii & xviii) calf, the rest sheepskin. Parchment slip (c.229–36 × 81–87 mm) inserted between fols 25/26 (quire iv); (fol. 133v) a very small rust mark near the outer centre, probably from a catch or anchor plate of a former binding.

Physical extent

ii (17th-cent.) + 134 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves

Hands

German Carolingian minuscule, Mainz (?), s. ix3/4, several hands. Occasional corrections and additions, mostly in the text hands, occasionally in other, contemporary, hands. The hand writing on fols 69r–90v, l. 16 writes a minuscule reminiscent of the minuscule attested for Mainz at this period, cf. Mairhofer, MSS Würzburg, 574f., and fig. 93 (p. 582).

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 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions at the upper right-hand corner of fol. 1r (following the header in a different hand): ‘Codex Carthusiensium maguncie’, and, possibly in the same hand, at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 133v: ‘Iste liber pertinet ad carthusienses prope magunciam’. MS. Laud Misc. 584 is the oldest surviving manuscript from the Mainz Charterhouse.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Title

Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus S. Augustini

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 584

Date

9th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

133 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2469 acquired by the Bodleian Library