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MS. Laud Misc. 241

Summary Catalogue no.: 855

Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in euangelia (incomplete)

Language(s): Latin

Exempla

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Added 12th century, late. Pächt and Alexander iii. 213, pl. XXI:

Miniature (diagram of a Holy sepulchre).

Good initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, middle; added miniature, 12th century, late ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Roche, Yorkshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'VI D' (fol. 4r). (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Abp. Laud 1639; given to Bodley 1640. (MLGB3)

Cf. N. R. Ker in Medium Ӕvum 5, p. 48. (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 204

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 36