Pauline Epistles; (Area of) Würzburg, s. xii2.
MS. Laud Lat. 103
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Description
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Title
Pauline Epistles; (Area of) Würzburg, s. xii2.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 103
Place of origin
Germany, area of Würzburg
Date
12th century, second half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii (17th cent.) + 139 + ii (17th cent.) leaves
Hands
German protogothic, s. xii2, by two hands, above top line. Interlinear and marginal corrections by a contemporary hand.
(fol. 1r) The list of contents in German textualis, s. xiv1.
Decoration
Good historiated and other initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1302, pl. CXVIII). Historiated initials with St Paul on fols. 7r, 110v; inhabited initials on fols. 32v, 57r, 73v, 82r, 90v, 97r, 101v, 103r, 107v, 116v, 120v, 123r and 124v
Coloured initials; red and brown capitals.
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 in Germany, probably 1160s; dated and located on palaeographical grounds.
Würzburg, Kollegiatstift Neumünster: ownership inscrption, s. xiii, at the foot of fol. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1v.
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Title
Pauline Epistles
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 103
Summary
1. Fols. 1v-3v. Prologue to Pauline Epistles
2:
Fols. 3v-5r. Prologue to Romans
Fol. 5r. Prologue to Romans
Fols. 5r-7r. Prologue to Romans
Fols. 7r-30r. Romans
3:
Fols. 30r-32r. List of chapters
Fols. 32r-v. Prologue to I Corinthians
Fols. 32v-55v. I Corinthians
Fols. 55v-56v. List of chapters
Fols. 56v-57r. Prologue to II Corinthians
Fols. 57r-72v. II Corinthians
4:
Fols. 72v-73r. List of chapters
Fols. 73r-v. Prologue to Galatians
Fols. 73v-81r. Galatians
5:
Fols. 81r-v. List of chapters
Fols. 81v-82r. Prologue to Ephesians
Fols. 82r-89v. Ephesians
6:
Fols. 89v-90v. List of chapters
Fol. 90v. Prologue to Philippians
Fols. 90v-96r. Philippians
7:
Fols. 96r-97r. List of chapters
Fol. 97r. Prologue to Colossians
Fols. 97r-101v. Colossians
8: Fols. 101v-102r. Laodiceans
9:
Fols. 102r-103r. List of chapters
Fol. 103r. Prologue to I Thessalonians
Fols. 103r-107r. I Thessalonians
Fols. 107r-v. List of chapters
Fol. 107v. Prologue to II Thessalonians
Fols. 107v-109v. II Thessalonians
10:
Fols. 109v-110v. List of chapters
Fol. 110v. Prologue to I Timothy
Fols. 110v-116r. I Timothy
Fol. 116r. Prologue to II Timothy
Fols. 116r-v. List of chapters
Fols. 116v-120v. II Timothy
11: Fol. 120v. Prologue to Titus and (fols. 120v-122v) Titus
12:
Fol. 122v. Prologue to Philemon
Fol. 123r. List of chapters
Fols. 123r-124r. Philemon
13: Fol. 124r. Prologue to Hebrews and fols. 124r-139v. Hebrews
(fols. 140r-141v are blank)
Date
12th century, second half
Language
Latin
Physical extent
139 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2562 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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