MS. Laud Misc. 40

Summary Catalogue no.: 1429

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

Binding

12th-century binding, much repaired.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Rochester, Kent, Cathedral priory of St Andrew: 'Liber de claustro Roffensi per ‘Leonardum Monachum’' (fol. 1v), s. xiii/xiv, ast two words over erasure. Probably written at Rochester. Verses signed R. Wybarn at end. Medieval binding, rebacked. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

MS. Laud Misc. 40 – Part 1

Reginald of Canterbury, Vita sancti Malchi

Language(s): Latin

Reginald of Canterbury, Carmina

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

MS. Laud Misc. 40 – Part 2

Hilarius Aurelianus (?), Expositio hymnorum (on authorship see T. Hunt, Teaching and Learning Latin in 13th-Century England I (1991), pp. 38–42, esp. 38–9)

Language(s): Latin

Commentary on Creeds and Lord's Prayer

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

MS. Laud Misc. 40 – Part 3

Honorius Augustodunensis, Sigillium sanctae Mariae

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century

Additional Information

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, cols. 73–4

Quarto Catalogue, col. 75

Quarto Catalogue, p. 544

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 61