John Cassian, Robert of Cricklade — 12th century, end; English, Reading Inscribed, Hic est liber sancte Marie de Rading’. Quem qui celauerit. uel fraudem de eo fecerit⹎ anathema sit.(fol. ir)

Title

John Cassian, Robert of Cricklade — 12th century, end; English, Reading Inscribed, Hic est liber sancte Marie de Rading’. Quem qui celauerit. uel fraudem de eo fecerit⹎ anathema sit.(fol. ir)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 725

Date

12th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (contemporary flyleaf) + 184 + i (modern parchment) leaves

Hands

Protogothic minuscule; at least two scribes.

Decoration

Books begin with seven-line arabesque initials in colours.

Coloured blue, red, and green initials.

Some initials with fleuronnée decoration in a contrasting colour.

Marginal sketches added c. 1500, mostly manicules, but also including a detailed Christ bearing a cross, beside the text abneget semetipsum et tollat crucem suam (fol. 93v), cathedram honoris (fol. 155v), and hominibus superbia (fol. 187r) in pencil.

Tituli in red.

Binding

Laudian binding.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hic est liber Sancte Marie de Radingis quem qui celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit.' (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Title

John Cassian, Collationes and Robert of Cricklade, De connubio Iacob

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 725

Date

12th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

184 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2761 acquired by the Bodleian Library