A: Chronicle, from Ninus, first king of the Assyrians, to the death of Emperor Heraclius, c. 642. B: Commentary on the Octateuch. Germany, late 12th century
MS. Laud Misc. 394
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Description
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Title
A: Chronicle, from Ninus, first king of the Assyrians, to the death of Emperor Heraclius, c. 642. B: Commentary on the Octateuch. Germany, late 12th century
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 394
Date
12th century, end
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Physical extent
i (paper) + 117 (31 + 86) + i (paper)
Binding
Laudian binding. Sewn on four bands laced into pasteboards covered with brown tanned leather, each covered framed with a pair of blind filets and stamped in the centre with the gilt arms of archbishop Laud; holes from a pair of ties towards the fore-edge.
The spine with a 17th-century paper label inscribed ‘Anna:[les?] C[hro]|nica usq[ue ad?] | Heraclium [ … ] | Comment. in | 5. libris M[oi]sis | M S’, with ‘A’ between the M and S; and three printed Bodleian paper labels printed ‘Laud. | I | 8.’, ‘Laud’, and ‘394’ respectively.
Rust-stains on fol. 1r doubtless caused by a pair of clasp-fittings from a former binding.
Acquisition
Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1625. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: inscribed in ink ‘J. 8’ twice (cf. spine), ‘Laud 394’, and in pencil ‘olim 1348’ (front pastedown), and ‘J.8.’ (fol. ir).
Provenance
Inscribed, 14th(?) century: ‘Iste liber continet Cronicam [ smudge ] et brevem stilum super quinque libros Moysis’ (fol. 1r); copied below by a 16th-century hand, leaving a space for the unread word.
Inscribed, 15th century: ‘In culpam labitur mente qui non dominatur Est miserum homini malum defendere rei’; ‘Quanto sanctiores tanto rariores’; and ‘Contra naturam est superbire et ab equali velle timeri’ (Gregory, Moralia in Job, II, 21, 15).
Part A only with marginal summaries in a late 15th- or early 16th-century hand.
Samson Johnson, protege of William Laud, inscribed ‘Liber Samsonis Johnsoni’ (fol. 1r), 16th/17th-century; cf. MS. Laud Misc. 355.
William Laud, 1573-1645: with the usual inscription, dated 1635 (fol. 1v, lower margin).
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Title
Chronicle to c. 640 and Commentary on Octateuch
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 394
Date
12th century, end
Language
Latin
Physical extent
117 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 1947 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Chronicle to c. 640 and Commentary on Octateuch
