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Luke, glossed; France, c. 1200

MS. Laud Lat. 42

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Title

Luke, glossed; France, c. 1200

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 42

Place of origin

French, east (?)

Date

c. 1200

Language

Latin

Contents

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 191–6. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.
(fols. 1r–116v) St Luke's Gospel, with glossa ordinaria
(fol. 1r–v) Prologue with sparse interlinear gloss.
(fols. 2r–116v) Luke with marginal and interlinear gloss.
(fols. 117va–118ra) Introitus in totam Bibliam

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (paper) + i (parchment) + 118 + i (parchment) + i (paper), foliated i-ii, 1–119.

Hands

Protogothic, verging on textualis, one hand (except fols. 117va-118ra).

Decoration

Fine initials on fols. 2r, 2v. (Pächt and Alexander i. 502)

Blue or red initials with foliate decoration in the opposite colour.

Running heads in red and blue.

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

Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian: 13th-century ex libris, fol. 1r.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1r.

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Title

St Luke's Gospel, with glossa ordinaria

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Lat. 42

Summary

Fol. 1r-v. Prologue with sparse interlinear gloss

Fols. 2r-116v. Luke with marginal and interlinear gloss

Fols. 117va-118ra. Introitus in totam Bibliam

Date

c. 1200

Language

Latin

Physical extent

119 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 2693 acquired by the Bodleian Library

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Collection contents

Laudian Collection

St Luke's Gospel, with glossa ordinaria

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