MS. Laud Or. 282
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
Libro di Magiḳah ḳi ḳonpos
Treatise on magic in Ladino, title and author is mentioned at the end of the book, on fol. 416v.
According to I. González Llubera (see Romance Philology) Juan Gil is the name of a previous scribe, but G. Beaujouan (see Revista da Universidade de Coímbra) maintaines that he was the author.
Marginal notes sometimes folded.
Fols. 228, 229, 130a are blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Hand(s)
Sephardi semi-cursive scripts.
The beginning (fols. 1-84) is copied by a different hand, on 6-sheet quires of different paper; the continuation (fols. 85-416) is copied on quires of 5 sheets.
Decoration
Not decorated.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Archbisop Laud in the middle; holes for straps.Fragments of a Latin MS are pasted onto the inner covers.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscriptions: "Joannes Dee 1562 January 8. Louanii emit"; "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cantuari[iensis] et Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1633" (fol.1r); Description of the content in English by Archbishop Laud (?) mentioning John Dee (fol. v r)
Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).
Record Sources
Availability
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