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MS. Laud Misc. 409

Summary Catalogue no.: 1512

Contents

2.
Hugh of St.-Victor, De uirtute orandi
Language(s): Latin
3.
Hugh of St.-Victor, De quinque septenis
Language(s): Latin
5.
Richard of St.-Victor, Benjamin minor
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 255, pl. XXIV:

Fine miniature.

Good initials.

Binding

Contemporary binding.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; English, St. Albans

Provenance and Acquisition

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Benedictine abbey of St Alban: 'Hunc librum dedit domnus Willelmus [W. de Trumpington, 1214–1235] abbas Deo et ecclesie Sancti Albani quem qui ei abstulerit aut titulum deleuerit aut quacumque translacionis specie ab ecclesia memorata alienauerit. anathema sit. Amen.' (s. xiii in.); followed in the same hand by 'C 7 liber 6' (s. xv). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Laud 1633. Old number (post-medieval?) 129 at top left of fol. 1r. (MLGB3)

Medieval binding. Table of contents, fol. 1r. Pressmark in outer margin of fol. 1r. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 300
Quarto Catalogue, col. 301
Quarto Catalogue, p. 561
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 65

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.

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