Vitalis de Furno (attrib.) — 14th century (first half); Germany
MS. Laud Misc. 255
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Vitalis de Furno (attrib.) — 14th century (first half); Germany
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 255
Date
14th century (first half)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment (numerous irregular edges, a few flaws in the text area, some medieval repairs)
Physical extent
i + 386 + i leaves
Hands
Textualis libraria by three main scribes: (A) fols. 1r-80v (B) fols. 81r-130v, 141r-174v, 195r-381r (C) fols. 131r-140v, 175r-194v.
Fols. 381v-386r, cursiva antiquior, perhaps also by scribe C. Scribe A's marginal keywords in cursiva antiquior.
Decoration
2-line coloured red initials on fols. 1r-32r (some left blank); 2-line coloured red initial, fol. 33r.
Otherwise spaces left by scribes A and B for 2-line initials and rubrics, not filled in.
Scribe C: quotations underlined in red; majuscules slashed with red; rubrics (some in black, marked 'R.'), spaces not left for initials.
Binding
A standard binding of the Laudian collection, c. 1638-9.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: mark of the chain-staple of the Eberbach libraria major on fol. 386v (cf. N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bucher (1998), 182-3), and identifiable as C 7 in the Eberbach catalogue of 1502 ('Quedam figure biblie et moralizationes earundem Initium Sciendum quod per a designatur etc. Scripte pergameno') (Palmer, Zisterzienser, 234, without reference to the present manuscript).
William Laud: acquired 1638 (ex libris, fol. 1r) after the disperal of the Eberbach library in the Thirty Years' War.
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Title
Vitalis de Furno, Speculum morale totius Sacrae Scripturae
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 255
Date
Written in Germany, 14th century
Language
Latin
Physical extent
386 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2504 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Vitalis de Furno, Speculum morale totius Sacrae Scripturae
