The Bodleian Library holds a significant collection of Latin medieval manuscripts from Germanymore specifically from Wurzburg, Eberbach, and Mainz. The medieval manuscripts from Wurzburg, most of which were acquired by William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, during the period of the Thirty Years War, constitute an invaluable collection. Most of these codices originally belonged to the cathedral chapter of Wurzburg, the Domstift St. Kilian, and date back to the ninth century.
Presenting detailed descriptions of more than fifty of manuscripts, "Medieval Manuscripts from Wurzburg in the...