MS. Laud Misc. 161

Summary Catalogue no.: 758

Nicholas de Gorran, Commentary on the Pentateuch

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, end

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: (MLGB3: evidence from the style of script or illumination).

William Laud (1573–1645), archbishop of Canterbury, 1633. (MLGB3)

2 o folio: 'in fidelibus contra constanciam'. The flyleaf is missing, but the size and handwriting of the book strongly resembles Laud misc. 160. (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. 149

Quarto Catalogue, p. 549

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 33