MS. Laud Misc. 310

Summary Catalogue no.: 646

Hugh of St.-Victor, De sacramentis christianae fidei

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 214:

Good initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, Fountains Abbey

Provenance and Acquisition

Fountains, Yorkshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber Sancte Marie de Fontibus" (s. xii), at top of fol. 1r, in the same hand as the text. No pressmark. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Laud "1635". (MLGB3)

No old flyleaves. (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. 28