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MS. Laud Misc. 385

Summary Catalogue no.: 1357

Patristic extracts

Language(s): Latin

William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1347, pl. CXX:

Fine miniature (drawing).

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Di. VI ta Gradu I" (on flyleaf, fol. 1r), s. xiv in. "Hic liber intitulatur flores bernardi Thome prioris in quo continentur . . .", (s. xiv in., flyleaf, fol. 1r). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription consisting of a title or, when a pressmark, a personal name in the genitive case).

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. 286

Quarto Catalogue, col. 287

Quarto Catalogue, p. 559

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 58