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MS. Laud Misc. 123

Summary Catalogue no.: 1569

Contents

1.
Augustine, Collatio cum Maximino
Language(s): Latin
2.
Augustine, Contra Maximinum
Language(s): Latin
3.
Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram
Language(s): Latin
4.
Augustine, Collatio cum Maximino
Language(s): Latin
5.
Gregory of Nyssa, De opificio hominis
Language(s): Latin
7.
Bede, In libros Regum quaestiones xxx
Language(s): Latin
9.
Peter Damian, Letter to Alexander II
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 150:

Good and other initials.

Binding

Mid-12th-century binding.

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; English, Gloucester

Provenance and Acquisition

Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Benedictine abbey of St Peter: "A. M." (? a pressmark) on fol. 1v; cf. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius Coll., 309. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

Belonged, like Jesus Coll. 65, to Sir John Prise, and later to Jesus (Prise donation list, no. 19). Joseph Maynard. (MLGB3)

"ERNULFI" (s. xii?), as Jesus Coll. 65. Medieval binding. On end pastedown is "Caucio Johannis de lasseborgh monachi de glouernia exposita Willelmo de Winterborn in pro quinque solidis." (s. xiii). (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).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.