Jerome — 9th century, second quarter or middle; German, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey
MS. Laud Misc. 455
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Description
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Title
Jerome — 9th century, second quarter or middle; German, Lorsch, Benedictine abbey
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 455
Date
9th century, second quarter or middle
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment (usually HFFH)
Physical extent
ii + i + 271 + i + ii leaves
Hands
Caroline minuscule by several hands; fols. 17r-40v by a scribe influenced by St Vaast script who also wrote MS. Laud Misc. 133 fols. 1-89 and Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 211 (Kautz; Bischoff, 1989, p. 42).
Rubrics on fols. 1r and 162r and 205v in square capitals.
Rubrics on fols. 75v and 119r and 175r in rustic capitals.
Other rubrics and sometimes the first line of each book in uncial.
Decoration
Plain initials in the ink of the text, occasionally (e.g fols. 43v, 75r) with modest decoration.
Marginal sketches, 11th century (?), fols. 84r (animal), 121v (partial human figure) (Pächt and Alexander i. 20, pl. III)
Binding
Standard Laudian binding, rebacked.
Acquisition
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639. Former shelfmark H. 66 (fol. 1r)
Provenance
Lorsch abbey: identifiable in the ninth-century catalogues: A. Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar (2002), no. 163 (p. 245)
Cisterican abbey of Eberbach: probably identifiable as F14 in the 1502 catalogue, 'Iheronimus super ysaiam Initium In christi nomine Incipit etc.' (N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), pp. 237, 295); probably also in the 'Rheinischen Gesamtkatalog' of the 1470s (ibid., p. 229). Probably removed from Lorsch to Eberbach between 1233 and 1245 while Lorsch was administered by monks from Eberbach (ibid., p. 18)
William Laud, 1638: inscription, fol. 1r.
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Title
Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 455
Date
9th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Physical extent
271 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2753 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah
