MS. Laud Misc. 291

Summary Catalogue no.: 1327

Peter Comestor, Commentary on Matthew

Language(s): Latin

Peter Comestor, Commentary on Mark

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 374:

Fine initial.

History

Origin: 13th century, second quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: Bury pressmark, B.241. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

William Laud (1573–1645), archbishop of Canterbury, 1633. Earlier at Pembroke College, Cambridge (T. James, Ecloga (1600), no. 153). (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. 234

Quarto Catalogue, p. 556

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 57