New Testament (glossed). Composite: A: Italy, s. xiiiex || B: (Northern?) Italy, s. xiimed || fol. 25: German, s. xi/xii.

Title

New Testament (glossed). Composite: A: Italy, s. xiiiex || B: (Northern?) Italy, s. xiimed || fol. 25: German, s. xi/xii.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 29

Date

s. xiiex

11th century, late - 12th century, early

s. xviin

12th century, middle

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

171 leaves (for fol. 171 see MS. Laud Lat. 29*)

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

A composite manuscript consisting of two Italian Bible books, possibly only together since the late 1630s. Fol. 25 is a fragment leaf from a German Sacramentary, hooked around the first quire of part B. The end flyleaf, fol. 171, transferred to a separate folder (MS. Laud Lat. 29*), 26 October 1976.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex-libris inscription, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Title

Epistolae Pauli, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 29

Summary

Canonical Epistles, with gloss, 13th century, first half

Sacramentary (fragment), 11th century, late - 12th century, early

Pauline Epistles, with gloss 'Pro altercatione', 12th century, middle

A fly-leaf at end contains a fragment of an old MS. of Cicero's Tusculanae disputationes.

Date

11th-13th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

171 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2687 acquired by the Bodleian Library