MS. Laud Misc. 413

Summary Catalogue no.: 970

Reginald of Durham, Vita S. Godrici

Language(s): Latin with Old English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 220:

Initials.

Binding

Late 14th-century binding, rebacked.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, Durham

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: (fol. 1r) Erased inscription "liber sancti cuthberti de Dunelmo in quo continentur uita et miracula godrici heremite ad finem libri." (s. xiv; last three words s. xv), and pressmark "1 a . 7 i . V." Letter mark 'L'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

"Aug. Lindsell ex dono amantissimi Antonii Maxton." Archbishop Laud 1633. (MLGB3)

Medieval binding of bright red skin. Mynors no. 112. (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. 303

Quarto Catalogue, p. 561

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 40