MS. Laud Misc. 372

Summary Catalogue no.: 1383

Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum

Language(s): Latin

Life of St. Alexis

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Penwork.

Binding

Contemporary binding and chemise.

History

Origin: 13th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Northampton, Northamptonshire, Cluniac priory of St Andrew: Northampton pressmark 'D.b.' fol. 3r. 'Liber [ ........................... ]' at top of fol. 1r: 'andree' possibly legible as the third word; also 'N'' at the end; ultra-violet light no help. (Medieval binding, s. xiv. The flyleaves are s. xiii from a copy of the legatine council in London 1237.) (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Thomas Peinton', s. xvi. On fol. 2v is 'R. h. r. p. h. l[iber] e[st] v[erus] p[ossessor]' as in Laud Misc. 86 and 397, both of which belonged to Peinton. (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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 280

Quarto Catalogue, p. 559

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