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MS. Laud Misc. 300

Summary Catalogue no.: 907

Ps.-Jerome, Breuiarium super Psalmos

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 116:

Fine and good initials.

Binding

Early 16th-century blind-stamped binding.

History

Origin: c. 1130–1160 ; English, Canterbury, St. Augustine's

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): Second folio agrees with entry 325 in St Augustine's Catalogue. Name of "Wyll' sellyng abbas [d. 1480]" ad fin. (MLGB3: evidence of dicta probatoria, usually a secundo folio).

H. E. Lysynge, jun. (cf. Oxford, St John's Coll. 66B). (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. 238

Quarto Catalogue, p. 556

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 38