A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Lat. 83

Summary Catalogue no.: 494

Contents

Office of the dead
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 44 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 85 × 57 mm.

Layout

14 long lines

Decoration

Border.

Initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 747)

Binding

Early 15th century.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 328

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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