MS. Laud Misc. 419
Summary Catalogue no.: 1501
Contents
Breviary (Choir Breviary)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
ii + 464 + ii leaves .
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 225 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 140 mm.
Layout
2 col. of 30 lines
Decoration
Style related to the school of Rouen.Pächt and Alexander i. 846, pl. LXI:
Fine miniatures. A full-page miniature (fol. 9) with Charles de Hangest, bishop of Noyon, presenting his successor and nephew, Jean de Hangest, to the holy Trinity; the arms of the family are at the foot of the page.
Fine borders.
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials.
Binding
19th-century rebind.
History
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 (1966).
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 257
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-07: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.