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Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles; Würzburg, Domstift, s. ix2/3.

MS. Laud Misc. 106

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Title

Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles; Würzburg, Domstift, s. ix2/3.

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 106

Date

9th century, second third

Language

Latin

Contents

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 358–64. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
(fol. i recto–verso, 17th-cent. endleaf) blank
(fol. ii recto–verso) 1st leaf of quire i. Pen trials and notes, by several hands of s. ix–xi; some texts with neums, predominantly of the St Gall type; the clivis is of the Würzburg type.
(fol. ii recto) ‘Scrauuan | Scrauan erat ue[…] | scrauuan erat ueltes melior cui[?] nomine [?] altis [or: altes?]’, s. ix–x (sic).
(fol. 1r) Notes and pen trials, by various hands s. xii–xiii.
(fols. 1v–150v) Rabanus Maurus Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles
(fol. 151r–v, modern endleaf) blank.

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (17th cent.) + 151 + i (17th cent.) leaves The margins trimmed (sometimes occasioning the loss of quire signatures, and partially of marginalia).

Hands

Carolingian minuscule, s. ix2/3 by several hands from the time of Bp. Gozbald, varying in size of script, the majority of which still write a minuscule of the late Hunbert style.

Decoration

Simple one- to three-line initials in the ink of the text, marking major and minor textual units.

Musical notation

fols. ii recto-verso: some texts with neums.

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 Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian in, s. ix2/3, at the time of Bp. Gozbald; a 15th-cent. shelfmark of the Domstift at the head of fol. 2r.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1v.

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Title

Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles; Würzburg, Domstift

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 106

Date

9th century, second third

Language

English

Physical facet

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard binding

Physical extent

150 Leaves

Custodial history

Old shelfmark viij. Manuscript 2440 acquired by the Bodleian Library

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Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles; Würzburg, Domstift

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  • Laud, William, 1573-1645

  • Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856

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