Hugh of St-Victor, Bernard of Clairvaux, etc.; England (Reading), 12th century, middle

Title

Hugh of St-Victor, Bernard of Clairvaux, etc.; England (Reading), 12th century, middle

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 232

Place of origin

England Reading Abbey

Date

12th century, middle

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + i 187 + ii leaves

Hands

Protogothic by several hands.

Decoration

Arabesque initials.

Diagrams (fols. 77v, 78v)

Binding

Standard binding of the Laudian collection, rebacked.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

Reading Abbey: Reading origin and provenance identified by Michael Gullick, ‘Reflections and Observations on Romanesque Manuscripts and Charters from Reading Abbey’, Reading Medieval Studies 42 (2016), 1–24 at 9-10: origin, on grounds of initials (damaged, fols. 1r, 71r), in a style associated with Reading, and the occurrence of a scribe in another Reading manuscript (MS. Rawl. A. 416); provenance, because the volume is apparently identifiable in the 12th-century booklist, albeit with items in a different order (CBMLC B75.171: 'secunda pars sacramentorum Hugonis et illa summa que sic incipit, De fide et spe, in uno uolumine, ubi est etiam tractatus magistri Hugonis de incorrupta uirginitate Marie et tractatus Bernardi abbatis de deo et apologeticum eiusdem ad Willelmum abbatem').

William Laud, 1638

Title

Hugo de S. Victore

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 232

Summary

Ps.-Hugh of St. Victor, Summa sententiarum

Hugh of St.-Victor, De beatae Mariae uirginitate

Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo Deo

Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola ad quosdam nouiter conuertos

Hugh of St.-Victor, De sacramentis christianae fidei

Date

12th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

187 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2617 acquired by the Bodleian Library