MS. Laud Misc. 359

Summary Catalogue no.: 1386

Miracles of the Virgin

Language(s): Latin

Ps.-Jerome, De natiuitate sanctae Mariae

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 219:

Good initials.

Rough sketches added later.

Binding

Late 12th-century binding.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, Durham

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: On fol. 2r in usual hand: "Libellus de nativitate sancte Marie e communi libraria monachorum Dunelm. .D.". (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

"Aug. Lindsell ex dono amicissimi Antonii Maxton". (MLGB3)

Medieval binding, with pattern on fore-edges. On end flyleaf (fol. 134v) the name of Hugo Whythede (Hugh Whitehead, later prior of Durham). Mynors no. 115. (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. 270

Quarto Catalogue, col. 271

Quarto Catalogue, p. 558

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 59