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MS. Laud Misc. 363

Summary Catalogue no.: 1385

Contents

3.
Theological texts
Language(s): Latin
4.
Jerome, Commentarii in IV Epistulas Paulinas (extracts on Titus and Philemon)
Language(s): Latin
5.
Prayers and meditations
Language(s): Latin
6.
Ralph of Battle, De nesciente et sciente
Language(s): Latin
8.
Richard Pluto, Aequiuoca
Language(s): Latin
9.
Marbod of Rennes, De ornamentis uerborum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Binding

Contemporary binding; title up spine.

History

Origin: 12th century, first half

Provenance and Acquisition

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Benedictine abbey of St Alban: 'Hic est liber sancti Albani quem qui ei abstulerit vel titulum deleuerit anathema sit amen' (fol. 3r), in red, s. xiii. 'Hunc librum dedit dominus Ricardus de Bury episcopus Dunelmensis domui sancti Albani' (fol. 2v), s. xiv. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Medieval binding. 12th-cent. table of contents in St Alban's form. (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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 272
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 273–4
Quarto Catalogue, p. 558
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 59

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.