MS. Laud Misc. 308

Summary Catalogue no.: 896

Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos (Psalms ci - cl)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 261:

Good initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Roche, Yorkshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber monacorum de rupe'. 'III E [formerly F]'. 'I' 'II' 'III' in the margins at intervals, as in Laud Misc. 145. Presumably a companion volume to Cambridge UL Gg. 3. 33, which contains the second part of Lethbertus, similar marks and also the Roche ex libris on fol. 1r. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Hugh Cressy' (s. xvii in.). Laud 1639; given to Bodl. 1640. (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. 244

Quarto Catalogue, p. 556

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