Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos 119-133; Germany (Lorsch), 9th century, first half

Title

Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos 119-133; Germany (Lorsch), 9th century, first half

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 132

Date

1458 (c.)

11th century, late, or 12th century, early

9th century, first half or middle

Language

Latin

German

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

1 (medieval parchment endleaf) + ii (later paper) + 74 + 2 (medieval parchment endleaves) + i (later parchment) + ii (later paper)

Hands

Caroline minuscule by more than one hand; fols. 1v-7v discussed by Sidney Tibbetts as an example of praescriptio, with short passages written by a 'master' followed by passages by 'students': 'Praescriptiones, Student Scribes and the Carolingian Scriptorium', La collaboration dans la production de l’écrit médiéval, ed. Herrad Spilling (Paris, 2003), 25-38 at 29-31.

Rubrics in uncial.

Decoration

Rubrics mostly in red.

2- or 3-line initials in plain ink or (less usually) red.

Binding

A standard binding of the Laudian collection, calf over pasteboards, with Laud's arms in gilt on each cover; rebacked.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former shelfmarks L. 39, E. 108 (inside cover), H. 8 (fol. 1r)

Provenance

Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the Lorsch library catalogues B, Ca and D (A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 94, p. 200) as part of a set of Augustine on the Psalms; MS. Laud Misc. 133, fols. 90-143 contains the volume with Ps. 91-100.

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey, lent at one point to the Cistercian nunnery at Dalheim. Liber sancte Marie virginie in Everbach concessus sanctimonialibus in dalen, fol. 1r, 14th century, with 'in Everbach' perhaps 15th century. For the Cistercian nunnery at Dalheim see Germania Benedictina 9: Die Männer- und Frauenklöster der Benediktiner in Rheinland-Pfalz und Saarland (1999), 426-444. Identifiable as G10 in the 1502 catalogue of Eberbach, 'Sermones augustini super psalmos Initium Breuis psalmus est' (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), p. 238). The manuscript was probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (Palmer, p. 18).

William Laud, acquired 1638.

Title

Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos (Ps. cxviii-cxxxiii)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 132

Date

9th century, first half

Language

Latin

Physical extent

76 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2807 acquired by the Bodleian Library