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  • 1
    13th-17th century
    Ref:GB 161 MSS. Laud Or
    Location:Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
    Name of creator:
    Laud William.
    Extent:286 shelfmarks
    Language:Arabic, Persian, Coptic, Hebrew, Turkish, Telugu, Armenian, Syriac, and Chinese
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  • 2
    England, 17th c., 1640
    Ref:GB 473 MS262
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper mounted on paper) 495 x 365 mm. Text area: varies depending on size of cut-out slips and illustrations used, but typically 385 x 281 mm. Fol. ii + 74 + ii leaves. (1 complete sequence of foliation dated 1994 on fol. ivr: ii + 74 + iii-iv leaves; an integral sequence of pagination from fol. 10v-74r: 128 pages). Contemporary red velvet over pasteboard. Gilt stamped border constructed concentrically from outer to inner with a toothed ornament, a beaded ornament and then a foliate ornament. Corner ornamentation constructed from gilt stamps of circular and acorn ornaments in an arc, with a foliate ornament at the corner and a parallel floral ornament on the panel. The central ornament constructed from concentric circles (inner to out) of gilt circular and acorn stamps, with floral ornaments above and below, and a star with heart shaped ornaments at the centre. Remains of two ties on each cover, red silk. Spine has remnants of gilt border at top and bottom, and a star shaped formation of gilt ornament to its centre. Remains of a circular paper stamp bearing the shelf mark (possibly “A.20”) towards the top of the spine. Impression of 12? bands on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding dimensions: 501 x 371 mm
    Language:English Latin
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  • 3
    Oxford?, 17th c.; 1645
    Ref:GB 473 MS261
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 203 x 155 mm. Text area: typically 169 x 105 mm. Fol. i + 32 + i leaves. (1 later pencil sequence of foliation in top right of each recto dated 1994 on fol. iiir: i-ii 31 iii leaves. Also an integral foliation in top right corner of rectos from fol. 2: 30 leaves). Binding: 17th c. limp vellum. Board decoration: frame and panel single gilt fillet (panel with exterior gilt foliate ornaments), gilt diamond centrepiece constructed of 4 x motif of crowned angel. Remains of 2 silk ties on each cover. Spine divided into six compartments by 5 gilt triple fillets, with gilt foliate ornament central to 4 compartments. Later shelfmark stamped in gilt at top of spine. Binding dimensions: 204 x 158 mm
    Language:English
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  • 4
    Lambeth, 17th c. (1634 & 1639)
    Ref:GB 473 MS328
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Paper. Fol. 4 leaves (foliated in a 20th c. hand as: 328/1 2 leaves; 328/2 2 leaves). Unbound. (Often loose inside MS 302)
    Language:English
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  • 5
    9th May 1634
    Ref:GB 473 MS328/1
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 310 x 207 mm. Text area: 130 x 200 mm 2 leaves Often loose inside MS 302
    Language:English
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  • 6
    England, 17th c.; 1640s?
    Ref:GB 473 MS317
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 198 x 76 mm. Text area: typically 195 x 60 mm. Fol. 4 leaves. (1 later pencil sequence of foliation in top right of each rector: 4 leaves). Taped onto stubs in an album of 14 leaves (231 x 149 mm), leaves 1-2 of the manuscript on a stub formed from leaf 3 of the album, and leaves 3-4 on a stub formed from leaf 6. Binding: 20th c. deep green buckram with shelf number in gilt on spine
    Language:English Latin
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  • 7
    [late 17 cent.]
    Ref:GB 210 NLW MS 6676B
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Name of creator:
    Laud William 1573-1645.
    Extent:Contact NLW for more information
    Language:English English
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  • 8
    England, 17th c. ca. 1621-1643
    Ref:GB 473 MS258
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 198 x 75 mm. Text area: typically 195 x 60 mm. Fol. xv + 50 + xv leaves. (1 later pencil sequence of foliation in top right of each recto dated 1994 on fol. xxxr: xv 50 xvi-xxx leaves. Remnants of an original pagination? on fols 4r-7r?: [5?]-11 pages). Fols 1-3 damaged: 1 and 2 marginally and repaired; fol. 3 unrepaired with substantial loss of text. Fols 37-40 also damaged with loss of text but repaired. Binding: 20th c? brown morocco over millboard? Boards with gilt double-fillet border with circular corner ornaments, and triple fillet panel with exterior foliate corner ornaments. Board edges and turn-ins decorated in gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by 5 raised bands, with extensive gilt ornamentation. 2nd and 3rd compartments from top bear gilt text “ABP. | LAUDS | AUTOGRAPH | DIARY” and “1573 | 1643” respectively. Marbled endpapers. Binding dimensions: 203 x 82 mm
    Language:English Latin
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  • 9
    Ref:GB 473 MS324
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 374 x 229 mm. Text area: typically 370 x 220 mm. Fol. 2 leaves (1 bifolium). Unbound
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  • 10
    Oxford?, 16th-17th c.
    Ref:GB 473 MS166
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 194 x 145 mm. Text area: mainly marginal annotations. Fol. i + 24 + xiii leaves. (1 complete sequence of foliation dated 1994 on fol. xivr: i + 24 + ii-xiv leaves; the first tract has its own printed pagination: 24 p.). Binding: Early 19th c? tan calf over millboard. Double blind fillet border, with interior foliate ornament. Board edges gold-tooled towards corners. 5 raised bands to spine, defined by gold fillets, with blind ornaments between. Also two spine labels with gilt lettering: “Articuli | XXXIX | 1571” & “XXXIX | Articles | 1612”. Round paper label at top of spine with shelfmark “166 | a” in black ink. Binding dimensions: 202 x 158 mm
    Language:English Latin
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  • 11
    Fulham, 17th c.; 1632.
    Ref:GB 473 MS327
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 309 x 201 mm. Fol. 1 leaf. Unbound. (Often loose inside MS 302)
    Language:English
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  • 12
    7th-17th century
    Ref:GB 161 MSS. Laud Gr. 1-93; Laud Lat. 1-118; Laud Misc. 1-761
    Location:Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
    Name of creator:
    Laud William (1573-1645) Archbishop of Canterbury.
    Extent:972 shelfmarks
    Language:Latin, Ancient Greek (to 1453), Modern Greek (1453-), and English
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  • 13
    [1777x1787]
    Ref:GB 210 NLW MS 1993B [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:74 ff. (paginated i-iv, 1-136, v-[xii]) ; 195 x 160 mm. Quarter leather over boards
    Language:English, Welsh, Greek, Latin
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  • 14
    Ref:GB 473 MS37
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 326 x 205 mm. Text area ca. 281 x ca. 165 mm. Fol. vii + 175 + 2 + vii leaves (later foliation dated 1990 in top right hand corner: vii + 177 + viii-xiv leaves). Binding: 17th c. English calf over pasteboard. Gold-tooled border (double-fillet) to boards, with gold-stamped centre ornament (arms of Kenelm Digby). 6 raised bands to spine with gold-ornamented monograms, “KD”, between them. ‘37’ stamped in gilt at top of spine. Repairs to corners of boards. Sprinkled edges with classmark “37” in black ink central to fore-edge, and title, “Valenti: Nabod In Quadrip: Ptolomæi” at top of fore-edge. Binding dimensions: 331 x 216 mm. Decoration/Illustration: Decoration/Illustration Astrological diagrams, tables and horoscopes throughout. Diagrams: fol. 17v, diagram of horoscope; fol. 79v, circular astrological diagram. Tables: fol. 16r, entitled “Suda expositio qua gentea cum quibus dodecatemoriis societatem habent”; fol. 44r; fol. 74v, entitled “Canonion naturalium annorum competentium usitatis calculi temporibus”; fol. 153r; fol. 160v; fol. 164r, entitled ‘Canonium Revolutionum ab anno 1574’; fols. 167r-171r, entitled ‘Canones prafectionales’. Horoscopes: untitled horoscopes on fols. 67v-69r, 81v, 90v, 98v-99r, 101r, 140r, 155v & 164v. Titled horoscopes: fols 86r, ‘Hieronimi Cardani Genesiæ’ [Gerolamo Cardano, 1501-1576]; 154r, ‘Fratris Raymondi ordinis cælestinorum’; 154v, Hieronimi Savonarola’ [Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498] and ‘Laurentius Louaniensis’; 156r, Leonardi Casanati’; 156v, ‘Navagenus Patritius venetus’ and ‘Franciscius Roscius Ravennas’; 157r, ‘Cenitura Mulieris prolapsæ in aquas submersaq[ue] Venetiis’; 157v, ‘Suspensi per mandatum sui Domini’; 158r, ‘Luchensis Castronium dux suspensis ab anno aetatis 37’ and ‘Joannis Schians suspense anno 1525. 21. Junii’
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  • 15
    16th December 1639
    Ref:GB 473 MS328/2
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 297 x 194 mm. Text area: 220 x 165 mm. 2 leaves Often loose inside MS 302
    Language:English
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  • 16
    England, 17th c.; ca. 1673?
    Ref:GB 473 MS263
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 177 x 229 mm. Text area: typically 176 x 178 mm. Fol. 93 leaves. (1 later pencil sequence of foliation in top right of each recto dated 1994 on fol. 93v: 93 leaves). Binding: 17th/18th c. vellum over pasteboard. Blind double-fillet border to boards. Black inked title in 17th/18th c. hand on upper board, “Lauds Conference with Fisher.” 2 brass bookclasps. Evidence of 3 binding cords. Shelfmark stamped in gilt on spine. Edges to text block bear evidence of marbling. Binding dimensions: 187 x 235 mm
    Language:Latin
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  • 17
    Oxford?, 17th c. (1630?-1640).
    Ref:GB 473 MS22
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 331 x 223 mm. Text area ca. 300 x ca. 150 mm. Fol. i 70 leaves as foliated in top right corner of rectos (foliation dated 1989). Abandoned pagination from 2v to 5r (2-7). Binding: Contemporary 17th c. brown-stained goatskin over pasteboard. Boards decorated with gold-tooled border (double fillet with toothed ornament; fleurons as corner-ornaments) and panel (single fillet with toothed ornament). Spine decorated with border (single fillet with same). ‘22’ stamped in gilt at top of spine. Board edges tooled in gilt. Fixings for 2 book ties on both boards – remains of these trapped under edge of rear pastedown show navy blue silk. Lower board with inverted inscription in ink: “98 P[ais P...?]”, later 17th/18th c? Binding dimensions: 350 x 241 mm. Decoration / illustration: Front pastedown: pen and pencil drawing of an anatomical dissection taking place in the anatomical theatre at the University of Leiden. An almost exact copy of a 1616 engraving of Pieter Paaw (1564-1617) lecturing, by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacob de Gheyn II (see website of the Art Institute of Chicago for reproduction of engraving: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/51094), although many of the audience have had mortarboards substituted for other headgear. Fols 1v-2r: double spread pencil drawing depicting the two skeletons in situ in the Laudian Library of St John’s. Both mounted on pedestals with folding screens, and holding scrolls, either side of the doorway in which is inserted the dedicatory inscription. Fol. 21r: pencil drawn diagrams of joints, etc. Fols. 29v & 30v, right hand margins: pencil details of pins, fixings & mounts. Fols. 39-42: different elevations of the skull – pencil. Of particular note: fol. 39 – general frontal view, but with the teeth lettered, and an inset diagram of the ear bones; fol. 40 – interior of the skull, showing hinges and opening. Fol. 46: rear view of skull and top of spinal column displaying mounting. Pencil. Fols. 47-49: elevations of the rib-cage, fol. 47 also displaying assembly. Pencil. Fol. 50: Scapula and humerus. Pencil. Fol. 53: Lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx. Pencil. Fol. 54: Different types of vertebrae on mount. Pencil. Fols. 55v-56r: Double-page of pelvic girdle. Pencil. Fols. 60-61: Arm and hand bones displaying fixings. Pencil. Fol. 64: Fixing of femur to pelvis. Pencil. Fols. 65v-66r: Double-page of leg bones with fixings. Pencil. Fol. 68: Foot bones. Pencil
    Language:Latin
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  • 18
    Scotland?, 17th c; ca. 1640?
    Ref:GB 473 MS409
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Support (paper) 290 x 175 mm. Text area: typically 235 x 125 mm. Fol. i + 28 + i leaves (fols 1-28 apparently a later sequence of numeration? in pencil in top left corner of each recto: 19/1-15 20/1-23 21/1-7 22/1-9). Binding: 21st century grey paper over pasteboard. Printed label on upper board reading; “Archbishop William Laud | Articles Exhibited, Etc. Dec. 15th, 1640”. Binding dimensions: 305 x 191 mm
    Language:English
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  • 19
    Lambeth, 17th c.; 1637.
    Ref:GB 473 MS302
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Leaves of various sizes tipped into volume with page area 349 x 229 mm. Paper. Fol.1 leaf + 1 bifolium + 1 leaf mounted in a guard book of 20 leaves. Binding: 20th c. brown buckram over millboard. Gold-stamped shelf mark at top of spine. Binding dimensions: 354 x 230 mm
    Language:English Latin Greek Modern 1453-
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  • 20
    England, 17th c.; 1641-45
    Ref:GB 473 MS259
    Location:St John's College Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:Leaves (paper) of various sizes, some folded to fit volume, some partial and tipped in, but forming a block of between 292-303 x 187 mm. Text area: varies, but typically 282 x 145 mm. Fol. vii + 258 + vii leaves. (1 later pencil sequence of foliation in top right of each recto dated 1994 on fol. xivr: vii 258 viii-xiv leaves. Also a contemporary numeration: 1-6 [2] 7-8 [2] 9-10 [1] 11b 11a 12a-b 13b 13a 14 [2] 15-16 pages 17-161 [1] 162-179 [1] 180-245 leaves (numbered top left corner of verso) 246-257 pages 258-265 leaves). Binding: 20th c? brown morocco over millboard? Boards with gilt double-fillet border with exterior toothed ornament, frame in a foliate gilt roll outlined by double fillets and with exterior foliate corner ornaments, and a gilt double fillet panel with interior foliate toothed ornament. Board edges with double fillet and turn-ins decorated in gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by 5 raised bands, with extensive gilt ornamentation, incorporating a bishop’s mitre in each compartment. 2nd compartment from top bears gilt text “ABP: LAUD’S | AUTOGRAPH | HISTORY OF | HIS OWN | TROUBLES” . Marbled endpapers. Binding dimensions: 316 x 203 mm
    Language:English Latin
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