MS. Laud Misc. 416
Summary Catalogue no.: 1479
Contents
5.
, Secreta secretorum (English tr. by John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh) Language(s): Middle English
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Syon, Middlesex, Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget: On second pastedown: 'syster Anne Colvylle' and below it 'of your charyte prey for sustyr [clemens trays]burght' (letters in brackets visible by u-v light). Anne Colville and Clemencia Tharebrough are in the old Syon list (Aungier, p. 82). (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)).
Laudian date '1633'. (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).
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 603 (fols. 182-226)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.