Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea, etc.; Germany, late 13th or early 14th century

Title

Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea, etc.; Germany, late 13th or early 14th century

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 214

Date

13th century, late, or 14th century, early

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (early parchment endleaf) + 252 + i (Laudian parchment endleaf) (fols. 77 and 202 skipped, fols. 1 and 180 doubled)

Hands

Textualis.

Decoration

Blue-and-red puzzle initials with penwork, fols. 1(a)r, 1(b)r.

Coloured red and blue initials.

Binding

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

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Title

Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 214

Summary

1. Fols. 1 (a)ra-240vb. Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea with appendices:

Fols. 237vb, 240va-b. Rubric: De sancto Oswaldo rege

Fol. 238ra-vb. Life of St Gallus, imperfect

Fol. 238vb-239va. St Othmar from the Legenda Aurea appendix (Graesse, ch. CLXXXV)

Fol. 239va-b. Rubric: De sancto seruatio

Fol. 239vb-240va. Rubric: De sancto seruatio

2. Fols. 241ra-252vb. Martin of Troppau (?), Proptuarium exemplorum, cc. 1-5

Date

13th century, late, or 14th century, early

Language

Latin

Physical extent

253 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2724 acquired by the Bodleian Library