Pauline Epistles; Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix1/3.

Title

Pauline Epistles; Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix1/3.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 108

Place of origin

Germany, Würzburg, St Kilian

Date

9th century, first third

Language

Latin

Old High German (ca. 750-1050)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (17th cent., fol. i paper) + 117 + ii (17th cent., fol. 119 paper) The margins trimmed (affecting a few quire signatures, and sometimes marginalia, or initials).

Hands

Late German Anglo-Saxon minuscule, s. ix1/3, by six or more hands.

Decoration

Good initials. Anglo-Saxon script and decoration. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 12, pl. I). Würzburg, s. ix1/3, decorated in Insular style: initials, with distinctive interlace, to each Epistle, incl. the 1st prol. (fol. 1r); the initial, and often the first line of text framed with red dots; fols. 30r, 49v, 63r & 99v with animal head(s); initials to minor textual units equally decorated and often enclosed by red dots; the opening word(s) of each Epistle in large monumental capitals; highlighted majuscules; fol. 27r–v sketches of initials, scratched in the parchment and in ink.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

Acquisition

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Provenance

Written very likely in Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, s. ix1/3 (cf. LsK 13, 56f., 157 & n. 255), suggested by the strong palaeographical connection with other MSS from the Domstift.

A 15th-cent. shelfmark of the Domstift, fol. 1r (the upper left-hand margin)

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. ii verso.

Title

Pauline Epistles

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 108

Summary

Fols. 1r-2v. Prologue to Pauline Epistles

Fols. 3r-4v. Prologue to Romans

Fols. 4v-6v. List of chapters

Fols. 6v-7r. Prologue to Romans

Fols. 7r-27r. Romans

Fol. 27r-v. Prologue to I Corinthians

Fols. 27-30r. List of chapters

Fols. 30r–48r. I Corinthians

Fols. 48r–49r. List of chapters

Fol. 49r. Prologue to II Corinthians

Fols. 49v-61r. II Corinthians

Fols. 61r–62v. List of chapters

Fol. 62v. Prologue to Galatians

Fols. 62v–68v. Galatians (impf..

Fol. 69r. List of chapters

Fol. 69r. Prologue to Ephesians

Fols. 69r–75r. Ephesians

Fol. 75r-v. List of chapters

Fols. 75v-76r. Prologue to Philippians

Fols. 76r-80r. Philippians

Fols. 80r-81r. List of chapters

Fol. 81r. Prologue to I Thessalonians

Fols. 81r-85r. I Thessalonians

Fol. 85r. List of chapters

Fol. 85r. Prologue to II Thessalonians

Fols. 85r-87v. II Thessalonians

Fols. 87v-88r. List of chapters

Fol. 88r-v. Prologue to Colossians

Fols. 88v-92v. Colossians

Fols. 92v-93v. List of chapters

Fol. 93v. Prologue to I Timothy

Fols. 93v-98r. I Timothy

Fols. 98r-99r. List of chapters

Fol. 99r. Prologue to II Timothy

Fols. 99r-102v. II Timothy

Fols. 102v-103r. List of chapters

Fol. 103r. Prologue to Titus

Fols. 103r-105r. Titus

Fol. 105r-v. List of chapters

Fol. 105v. Prologue to Philemon

Fols. 105v-106v. Philemon

Fols. 106v-107v. List of chapters

Fol. 107v. Prologue to Hebrews

Fols. 107v-117v. Hebrews (impf., until 11:34.

(fols. i-ii; 118–119 17th-cent. endleaves are blank)

Date

From St Kylian, Würzburg, 9th century, first third

Language

Latin

Physical facet

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard

Physical extent

117 Leaves

Custodial history

Has its old shelfmark 'xcviij'. By an Eng. scribe, perhaps the writer of MS. Laud Lat. 92 and of MS. Laud misc. 436. Manuscript 2550 acquired by the Bodleian Library