Peter of Poitiers, Distinctiones super Psalterium. France, s. xiii2.
MS. Laud Misc. 499
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Peter of Poitiers, Distinctiones super Psalterium. France, s. xiii2.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 499
Date
s. xii1
13th century, second half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment; occasionally with repairs (stitching preserved on fols 11, 70, 82 & 84; stitching holes on fol. 77). The leaves may vary in size. Two bookmarks made of black-coloured thread, horizontally sewn into the outer margins of fols 39 & 47.
Physical extent
iii (17th-cent.) + 88 + iii (17th-cent.) leaves
Hands
French textualis, s. xiii2, by a single hand, above top line. Corrections and annotations in the text hand and in contemporary French hands; the hand of s. xvin correcting on fol. 1r is German, presumably from the Mainz Charterhouse.
Decoration
(fol. 1r) Coloured initial in red.
Rubrication.
Binding
Brown tanned 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
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: the late 14th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper left-hand margin of fol. 1r and near the centre of fol. 88v (same hand): ‘Iste liber est Cartusiensium prope mogunciam’.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.
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Title
Petrus Pictaviensis
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 499
Date
13th century
Language
Latin
Physical extent
88 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2523 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Petrus Pictaviensis
