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MS. Laud Misc. 299

Summary Catalogue no.: 752

Contents

Breviary, Use of Sarum.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 827:

Good borders. Some borders added, 15th century, middle.

Good initials.

Binding

19th-century binding, blue morocco, blind-tooled.

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning; added decoration, 15th century, middle ; English

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, cols. 237–8
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 33

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 233

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.