Isidore of Seville, Sententiae (incomplete); Germany, 11th century

Title

Isidore of Seville, Sententiae (incomplete); Germany, 11th century

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 391

Date

11th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (paper) + 75 + i (medieval parchment, fol. 76) + ii (paper)

Hands

Caroline minuscule. A second scribe starts at fol. 58r, and often leaves space to indent the coloured initials.

Rubrics sometimes in Rustic Capitals

Decoration

Initials in plain red-orange; typically 2- or 3-line for chapters, larger for books (fols. 2r, 20v, 44r).

Musical notation

The outer margin of fols. 67v–68r with added neumes.

Binding

Sewn on four bands and bound in 17th-century brown leather over pasteboards, with the (added?) gilt arms of archbishop Laud in the centre of each cover. The spine with vestiges of a handwritten title on a paper label. Vestiges of two ties.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: ‘E.27’ and ‘Laud 391’ (front pastedown), the spine with a printed paper label ‘Lau[d] | E | 27.’

Provenance

15th-century French(?) pen-trial inscription (fol. 76r, effaced)

Attributed with query by Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters (1989), II.735 to the Benedictine abbey of Sponheim, on uncertain grounds.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638 (inscription fol. 2r, lower margin).

Title

Isidore of Seville, Sententiae (incomplete)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 391

Date

Written in Germany, 11th century

Language

Latin

Physical facet

Some leaves are palimpsest

Physical extent

76 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2529 acquired by the Bodleian Library