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MSS. Laud Misc. 152, 154

Summary Catalogue no.: 1164

Summary Catalogue no.: 1163

Nicholas de Lyra, Commentary on the Old Testament

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Misc. 152 written by three scribes of whom the last completed the MS. in 1463, fol. 286v, and the first (fols. 1–48) was Henry Mere who signed on fol. 1 and also wrote and signed Misc. 154.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1067, pl. XCIX:

Miniatures (drawings).

Miniatures (diagrams).

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: c. 1463 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Witham, Somerset, Charterhouse of Saint Mary the Virgin. MS. Laud Misc. 152: "Liber domus beate marie de Witham [...] ex dono Magistri Iohannis Blacman" at foot of fol. 1r, erased. No. 1 in list of books given by John Blacman to Witham in Bodl. Laud Misc. 157. Medieval catalogue, CBMLC C8.1. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Witham, Somerset, Charterhouse of Saint Mary the Virgin. MS. Laud Misc. 154: "Liber domus beate Marie de Witham ordinis Cartus. ex dono magistri Iohannis Blacman", at foot of fol. 1r, erased. "Me dedit albus homo John Blacman ipse vocatus ...". Medieval catalogue, CBMLC C8.2. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

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. 144

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 145–6

Quarto Catalogue, p. 549

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 50