Petrus Comestor, Sermons. Germany (?), s. xiiiin.

Title

Petrus Comestor, Sermons. Germany (?), s. xiiiin.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 484

Date

13th century, first half or middle

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; remnants of medieval repair.

Physical extent

i + 191 + i leaves

Hands

Late protogothic / early textualis by several hands. Punctuation using punctus flexus. Ascenders of the top line extended in the style of documentary script. Occasional marginalia and corrections.

Decoration

Arabesque / silhouette initials in red flourished with the ink of the text.

Coloured initials in red.

Binding

Reversed calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639.

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: almost certainly identifiable from contents as g 15 in the catalogue of 1502 ('sermones de quatuor fluminibus paradisi Initium Columbarum': N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 273, but not mentioning the present manuscript).

William Laud, 1573–1645: ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r. Acquired after the dissolution of the Eberbach library in the period of the Thirty Years' War.

Title

Petrus Comestor, Sermons

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 484

Date

13th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical facet

Reversed calf binding

Physical extent

191 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2716 acquired by the Bodleian Library