Theological miscellany. Southern France, s. xivin.
MS. Laud Misc. 738
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Theological miscellany. Southern France, s. xivin.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 738
Date
Early 14th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment; remnants of with medieval repairs (stitching, with a natural-coloured thread).
Physical extent
199 + i (17th-cent.) leaves
Hands
Southern French textualis formata (rotunda), s. xivin, by two hands: 1) (fols 1ra–8vb (= quire i)); 2) (fols 9ra–198vb). Marginalia in the text hands and in (near-)contemporary hands, occasionally maniculae.
Decoration
Good borders.
Historiated initial 'N' in pink, blue and white with illuminated scene of a monk preaching beside an open book on a pult (fol. 1ra).
Decorated initials with foliate design in gold, red, pink, blue, green and white (fols 2va, 66vb, 123ra, 178vb, 185ra, 187vb & 198rb).
Flourished initials in red and blue.
Coloured initials in red and blue.
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 15th-cent. ex-libris inscription at the upper margin of fol. 122v: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Carthusiensium prope magunciam’. Identifiable as D XII S in cat. ii.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.
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Title
Ardo Smaragdus, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 738
Summary
Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum
Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum
Liber synodalis, diocese of Rouergue
Hugh of Saint-Cher, Expositio missae
Date
14th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Physical extent
198 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2695 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Ardo Smaragdus, etc.
