Chronicles, Prayer of Manasses, Ezra & Nehemiah. France, c. 1200.
MS. Laud Lat. 115
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Description
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Title
Chronicles, Prayer of Manasses, Ezra & Nehemiah. France, c. 1200.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 115
Date
c. 1200
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (17th cent.) + 168 + i (17th cent.)
Hands
Late French protogothic, c. 1200, by two expert hands, probably working simultaneously; the biblical text mostly below top line, using a larger script for the main (= biblical) text which is written on alternate lines, and a smaller one for the interlinear and marginal gloss, prologues, and summary of chapters; a cum textu layout.
Decoration
Fine initials in Chronicles.
Penwork initials with foliate decoration on fols. 1r, 102r; with animals on fols. 2r, 47v; penwork initials in Esdras on fols. 105v, 113v, 136r. (The two parts are by different scribes, but in the same format). Throughout the volume fine two-line initials in red or blue to verses; red and blue paraphs; running headings, chapter numbers.
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
Script and decoration of French appearance, c. 1200.
Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: a 13th-cent. ex-libris, fol. 1r.
William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1636, fol. 1r.
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Title
Chronicles, Prayer of Manasses, Ezra & Nehemiah
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Lat. 115
Summary
1. Fols. 1r-104v. Old Testament, Chronicles I and II, with gloss:
Fol. 1r. Jerome, Prologue to I Paralipomena
Fols. 1r-v. Jerome, Prologue to Paralipomena
Fols. 2r-101v. I Chronicles, with Glossa ordinaria
Fols. 47v-101v. II Chronicles, with interlinear and marginal gloss
Fols. 102r-103r. Prayer of Manasses
(fols. 103v-104v are blank)
2. Fols. 105r-165v. Old Testament, Ezra and Nehemiah, with gloss:
Fols. 105r-v. List of chapters
Fols. 105v-136r. Ezra (I Esdras), with interlinear and marginal gloss
Fols. 136r-165v. Nehemiah (II Esdras), with interlinear and marginal gloss
(fols. 166r-168r blank, except for some notes)
3. Fol. 168v. Notabilia distinctionum super Lucam
Date
c. 1200
Language
Latin
Physical extent
168 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2712 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Chronicles, Prayer of Manasses, Ezra & Nehemiah
