Gregorius Nazianzenus, Gregorius Iliberritanus (Ps.-Gregorius Nazianzenus), Ps.-Gregorius Iliberritanus (Ps.-Gregorius Nazianzenus) — 9th century, second quarter or middle (Bischoff 2004); Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey
MS. Laud Misc. 276
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Gregorius Nazianzenus, Gregorius Iliberritanus (Ps.-Gregorius Nazianzenus), Ps.-Gregorius Iliberritanus (Ps.-Gregorius Nazianzenus) — 9th century, second quarter or middle (Bischoff 2004); Germany, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 276
Date
9th century, second quarter or middle (Bischoff 2004)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 85 folios
Hands
Carolingian minuscule by several hands.
Rustic capitals used for rubrics and the beginning of some texts.
Uncial used for rubrics and the beginning of some texts.
Decoration
Rubrics in red and black.
Plain and coloured initials.
Simple decorated initials, fols. 51r, 55r, 63r.
Musical notation
Neums in the margin, fol. 85r.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Provenance
Script described by Bischoff (2004) as characteristic of the earlier Lorsch style, except for fols. 40r-41r and 50v-70v in ‘foreign’ hands.
Lorsch, Benedictine abbey: identifiable in the mid-ninth-century catalogues (A52, B148, Ca353, D239: A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch (2002), p. 293 no. 293).
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: identifiable as H 10 in the library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
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Title
Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orationes (tr. Rufinus)
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 276
Summary
Fol. 1r-v. Praefatio Rufini
Fols. 2r-23v. Apologeticus (or. 1)
Fols. 23v-30r. De ephiphaniis sive de natali Domini (or. 2)
Fols. 30r-37v. De luminibus, quod est de secundis epiphaniis (or. 3)
Fols. 38r-44v. De pentecoste et de spiritu sancto (or. 4)
Fols. 44v-51r. In semet ipsum de agro regressum (or. 5)
Fols. 51r-55r. Ad cives Nazianzenos gravi timore perculsos et praefectum irascentem (or. 6)
Fols. 55r-63r. De reconciliatione et unitate monachorum (or. 7)
Fols. 63r-70v. De grandinis vastatione, cum pater episcopus reticeret (or. 8)
Fols. 71r-80r. Gregorius Iliberritanus (Ps.-Gregorius Nazianzenus), De fide (CPL 551)
Fol. 80r-v. Ps.-Gregorius Iliberritanus (Ps.-Gregorius Nazianzenus), Fides Romanorum (CPL 552)
Fols. 81r-85r. De Arianis, quod non licet semper et publice de Deo contendere (or. 9)
Fol. 85r. Sequence 'Summi regis archangele Michael'
Date
9th century, second quarter or middle
Language
Latin
Physical extent
85 Leaves
Custodial history
Once at Lorsch. Manuscript 2708 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orationes (tr. Rufinus)
