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MS. Laud Misc. 551

Summary Catalogue no.: 1376

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii+ 163 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 182 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 37 lines, column space 175–185 × 55 mm.

Decoration

Good initials. Dated at end, fol. 164.

Binding

Early 16th-century binding, roll-tooled in blind.

History

Origin: 1506 ; Dutch

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, cols. 397–8
Quarto Catalogue, p. 570
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 59

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 609

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.