Glossed books of Job, Tobit, Judith and Esther; 13th century, beginning

Title

Glossed books of Job, Tobit, Judith and Esther; 13th century, beginning

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 441

Date

13th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 140 + ii leaves (fols. 25, 111, and 122 doubled)

Decoration

Large red and blue puzzle initials (fols. 2v, 93v) with pen-flourishes. Alternating red and blue intials with pen-flourishes. Running headings in red and blue capitals.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

Origin and medieval provenance uncertain. Regarded by Hunt as written in Germany (annotation to the Quarto catalogue) but perhaps more likely to be French. Hunt suggested (Quarto Catalogue, p. xxiv) that this was one of the volumes acquired for archbishop Laud in Germany; thirteenth- and fourteenth-century annotation in ink and crayon/drypoint, possibly in German script, may lend support to this. Not identifiable in the medieval library catalogues of the Eberbach Cistercians or the Mainz Carthusians.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Title

Job, etc., in Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 441

Summary

Job with gloss

Tobit with gloss

Judith with gloss

Hester with gloss

Ruth with gloss

Date

Written in Germany, 13th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

137 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2483 acquired by the Bodleian Library