MS. Laud Misc. 128

Summary Catalogue no.: 1559

Thomas Waleys, Commentary on Augustine, De civitate Dei

Waleys's commentary on bks. I-X completed by the commentary of Nicholas Trevet.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Binding

15th-century Oxford binding by the "Fishtail" binder (fl.

1473-1519).

History

Origin: 15th century, end

Provenance and Acquisition

Glastonbury, Somerset, Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Dominus thomas Wason monachus Glastonie' (prior 1493), in red at foot of fol. 1r, and on fol. 8v. He wrote fols. 1r–8v. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).

Abp. Ussher. (MLGB3)

Contemporary stamped binding: 'fishtail binder'; an excellent specimen. (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. 129

Quarto Catalogue, p. 548

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 67