Gregory the Great, Seneca, Martin of Braga, Augustine — 12th century, end; German

Title

Gregory the Great, Seneca, Martin of Braga, Augustine — 12th century, end; German

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 280

Date

12th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment; some pages spattered with wax (e.g. fols. 71r–72r)

Physical extent

iii (17th-century paper endleaves, modern foliation i–iii) + 129 (foliated iv–vi, 1–126) + ii (17th-century paper endleaves, foliated 127–128) leaves

Hands

Protogothic script; at least three hands.

Decoration

Opening initial in red (fol. 1r) with simple decoration; both this and the opening rubric highlighted with a pale yellow wash.

Coloured initials in red and blue.

Most tituli in red; some written with letters alternating between red and blue.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud.

Acquisition

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.

Provenance

William Laud, by 1633 (inscribed, fol. 1r).

Title

Gregorius papa, Magnus

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 280

Summary

Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Ezechielem

Seneca, De beneficiis

Seneca, De clementia (extracts)

Martin of Braga, Formula uitae honestae

Proverbial and other notes

Date

12th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

124 Leaves

Custodial history

Once belonged to W. Herbert, earl of Pembroke. Manuscript 1915 acquired by the Bodleian Library