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MS. Laud Misc. 4

Summary Catalogue no.: 503

Contents

Processional, noted
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Neumatic notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Initials.

History

Origin: before 1179 (?) ; English, Tynemouth

Provenance and Acquisition

Tynemouth, Northumberland, Benedictine priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Oswin; cell of St Albans: St Alban and St Oswin in the litany. (MLGB3: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar).

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. 57
Quarto Catalogue, p. 543
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 25

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 85

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.